Chris Messina Quotes
Doing something like 'Damages,' I played a character with post-traumatic stress. I was playing with sleep deprivation. I was not sleeping; I stayed up for three days at a time, drinking Red Bull. I would get shaky and tired and hyper.
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To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
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I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.
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For the first time, entrepreneurs can monetize their own open-source and peer-to-peer network. They can crowdfund and raise money from people across the world on the Internet in crypto-currency.
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The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.
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I lived in Montreal from the time I was 12 until I was 16.
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Is it crazy to say that I don't often eat breakfast? But every time I go to a diner, I have to have a breakfast-type item, even if it's 11:30 at night. I love my morning eats!
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My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
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You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
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I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.
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You try not to become so emotionally attached to your character, but you do.
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Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!
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The morning is always my best time of the day for writing because that's when my head is best.
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The future is keeping you out of the present time.
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Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.
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Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.
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A defining moment takes a long time to get over, if you ever do.
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The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
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It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.
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I think the business of music has really taken a huge hit. There's no doubt about it. But an artist is always going to produce their art, their music. They're going to paint, they're going to write.
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Doing something like 'Damages,' I played a character with post-traumatic stress. I was playing with sleep deprivation. I was not sleeping; I stayed up for three days at a time, drinking Red Bull. I would get shaky and tired and hyper.
