Chris Messina Quotes

'The Mindy Project' is really best when you're loose, and we improvise a lot, and that's what's best.

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• The future is much like the present, only longer.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Future
  • Like
  • Present

• That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Love
  • Fall

• Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Small
  • Breathing
  • Charm

• My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Great
  • Mother

• Obviously, you have quieter years than others - you don't go jumping out of a plane every day.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Equal

• Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Money
  • Art
  • Way

• The only thing I can cook is Welsh rarebit.

  

  Ian Rush
  • I Can
  • Cook
  • Welsh

• This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • You
  • Class
  • Lower Class

• Obviously you have to have rhythm. If you have rhythm, then you can play anything you need. If you have rhythm and you love music, then play and play and play until you get to where you want to get. If you can pay the rent, great. If you can't, then you'd better be having fun.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Play

• The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Knowledge
  • Rest

• We’re one team. One American family. When any member of our family is suffering, we’ve got to be there for each other. ... We have to keep on uniting as one team. As one people. As one nation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Family
  • American

• I have never had to look up a definition of honor. I knew instinctively what it was. It is something I had the day I was born, and I never had to question where it came from or by what right it was mine. If I was stripped of my honor, I would choose death as certainly and unemotionally as I clean my shoes in the morning. Honor is the presence of God in man.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Up
  • God
  • Death

• The mosquito is an automaton. It can afford to be nothing else.

  

  E. O. Wilson

• You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.

  

  Edward Snowden
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

  

  Anais Nin
  • Death
  • Giving
  • Suffering

• Well, when you're playing a role, you have to think, 'What is ultimately motivating the character?'

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Character

• I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year.

  

  Mark Messier
  • Time
  • Effort

• Clearly, the court today has ignored the constitutional right and responsibility of Congress to pass laws protecting citizens from dangerous and addictive narcotics...

  

  Bob Barr
  • Today
  • Responsibility

• Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race.

  

  Martin Lel
  • Today
  • City

• Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.

  

  Arthur Erickson
  • Attitude

• I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's funny, but you captured it.

  

  Alice Lowe
  • Why
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• 'The Mindy Project' is really best when you're loose, and we improvise a lot, and that's what's best.

  

  Chris Messina