American - Actor | August 11, 1974 -
I would love to close my eyes and see myself with my girlfriend when we're 99 years old and I have a pipe and she's knitting a sweater, and I hope that's the way it goes. I think it's a challenge every day.
Chris Messina
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I think Aaron Sorkin is like Shakespeare. When you go through it, there is a rhythm and clues all over the place of how it should be played.
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When you do a play, you do it for a couple months, and it just gets in your bones. You can learn about somebody that way.
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I am a big fan of movies from the '70s.
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I like funny things, but I don't find myself particularly funny.
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If you're playing your character and you're running into all these people who know who you are and treat you in a way that doesn't pertain at all to the character, it takes you out of it more, so when you're alone in a city where people don't know you, you can kind of pretend even more and get into the head space of where you need to be.
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It's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes a part with your voice in mind.
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Yeah, I think everybody has the crises of questioning themselves at some point or other in their lives. Is this where I should live? The job I should have? The girl I should be dating? Is this the friend I should have?
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I think as an actor, you're constantly putting yourself out there, and a lot of times failing - and failing in front of a bunch of people - and sometimes you have a good moment and something clicks.
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There's been a lot of times that I thought I'd never work again; I was really bummed out.
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Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director.
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I'm lucky to just be a working actor. There are so many great actors out there and I'm just lucky to have gotten work.
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