Chris Messina Quotes

Honestly, one of my favorite things about a director is when they understand what an actor brings to their role.

Chris Messina

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • American
  • Giving
  • Freedom

• If anything, I'm the most hesitant to bring on a label. That terrifies me. I think people believe major labels are linked to success. They're absolutely not that.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Believe
  • Success

• I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• I was very insecure approaching the idea of directing a feature film. I told myself I would not move until I felt I was moving in power rather than moving in desperation to make a movie.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Power
  • Movie
  • Myself

• I wish I had more confidence. I think that's probably my Achilles' heel. If I had more, I probably would have felt emboldened to make more interesting music earlier on, or really go for it in an artistic or songwriting sense.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Interesting
  • Wish

• The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.

  

  Randy Owen
  • Stop
  • Never
  • Never Stop

• If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Remember
  • Know
  • Dead

• There is too little courtship in the world.

  

  Vernon Lee
  • World
  • Little
  • Courtship

• I've always wanted to act; I just didn't know how to get into it. It kind of just happened. Dance brought me into it.

  

  Camren Bicondova
  • Know
  • Dance
  • Wanted

• Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Science
  • Greatest

• I think my favorite thing is songwriting.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • Think
  • Favorite
  • Songwriting

• Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Doing
  • Look
  • Now

• I think that women can tend to look so feminine so easily. So it's interesting to see how we can look masculine and strong, too.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Women
  • Think
  • Strong

• Envy aims very high.

  

  Ovid
  • High
  • Very
  • Envy

• I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Never
  • Intellectual
  • Been

• As soon as a handful of scientists come up with an intervention shown to influence aging in other species, they begin selling it as an intervention for humans, even though there may not be evidence it works.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Up
  • May
  • Influence

• It's important for youth, black youths particularly, to be able to fill in the blanks of themselves so they can know completely who they are, but also all the country to understand what this means: what the civil rights movement does to us as people. It is part of the journey that we must be on in order to become fully evolved human beings.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• 'Nothing', I said sadly. 'They are two delightful women!' 'And neither of them is for you?' finished Poirot. 'Never mind. Console yourself, my friend. We may hunt together again, who knows?'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Women
  • Mind
  • May

• She ain't into wine and rosesBeer just makes her turn up her nose andShe can't stand the thought of sipping champagneNo Cuervo gold margaritasJust ain't enough good burn in tequilaShe needs somethin' with a little more edgeAnd a little more painShe's my little whiskey girl, she's my little whiskey girlMy ragged on the edges girl, ah but I like em rough.

  

  Toby Keith
  • Up
  • Good
  • She

• It seemed that the time would come evolutionarily when humans might have acquired enough knowledge of generalized principles to permit a graduation from class-two (entropically selfish) evolution into class-one (syntropically cooperative) evolution, thereafter making all the right moves for all the right reasons.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Moving

• I never played the right roles, or very rarely got the right roles offered, except on stage.

  

  Maximilian Schell

• Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Knowledge

• We have to create conditions where people feel safe to feel and to care. That goes against a lot of our programming about how to make something change in the world. Sometimes you can pressure people into changing, you can force them, but the powers-that-be have more force than we do. I don't think we're going to win in a contest of force. I think we need to induce a change of heart. The narrative of "us versus them" is ultimately part of the problem. Traditional activism, which is about overcoming the latest bad guy, isn't deep enough. It just brings us another version of the same.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • World
  • Heart
  • Guy

• Honestly, one of my favorite things about a director is when they understand what an actor brings to their role.

  

  Chris Messina