Chris Messina Quotes

I was so bad in school that acting gave me some kind of identity and gave me a home.

Chris Messina

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• I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Face
  • Changing

• America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • America
  • Artist
  • Talent

• I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Love
  • Want
  • Forever

• The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Great
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Sometimes
  • Person
  • Director

• My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and.

  

  Karen McDougal
  • Dream
  • Man
  • Dark

• I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Family
  • Guy
  • Child

• I really don't believe in magic.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Believe
  • Magic
  • Really

• If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Death
  • Process
  • Still

• I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Country
  • Very
  • Complicated

• I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Up
  • Night
  • Jazz

• Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Stars

• The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.

  

  Garrett Graff
  • Positive
  • Influence
  • Media

• For me personally, I try to use my size to my advantage where I can either slip by guys or try to create more space for myself.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Me
  • Space
  • Myself

• All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Mind
  • Kids
  • Mother

• There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.

  

  Sam Richards
  • United States
  • Odd
  • United

• Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Inside
  • Size
  • Glass

• The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • People
  • American
  • Security

• The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Bad
  • Hair
  • Boy

• There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for instance. I was a distinct failure with the cello. Eventually, my parents sold the cello and bought a vacuum cleaner. The sound in our home improved.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Good
  • Music

• I actually started modeling in Ethiopia, because that's where I grew up, and I started out by just doing little fashion shows for school, and I liked it so much that I started pursuing it.

  

  Liya Kebede
  • Up
  • School
  • Fashion

• In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Year
  • Two
  • Last

• I was so bad in school that acting gave me some kind of identity and gave me a home.

  

  Chris Messina
  • School
  • Home
  • Bad