Top 35 Chris Messina Quotes
#1. On 'Workaholics,' I feel like I'm just hanging out with my buddies being filmed, but on 'Mindy,' I'm around professional funny people who act. Guys like Chris Messina, who are the real deal. I watch what they do and put my own spin on it.
Anders Holm
#3. I've spent so much of my youth trying to change people or change girls and then having it done to me and people wanting me to change.
Chris Messina
#4. 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?
Chris Messina
#7. Well, it's always strange to kiss someone with 10, 20, 40 people around.
Chris Messina
#9. Every hour spent on the Caine was a great hour in all our lives-if you don't think so now you will later on, more and more.
Herman Wouk
#10. Look at what your idea of success would be. The more that you take in external motivators, the more it reduces your ultimate satisfaction because it doesn't come from inside.
Chris Messina
#11. Greatness is achieved when you recognize your own strength. You become unstoppable! Nothing can prevent you from breaking free and claiming the victory.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#12. The rain probably dampened the spirits of those that decided not to come. But the people who were here didn't know it was raining because they were having so much fun.
Chris Messina
#13. Thus, for 3,000 years and more, this disease has been known to the medical profession. And for 3,000 years and more, humanity has been knocking at the door of the medical profession for a "cure." - Fortune, March 1937
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#15. I'm from another time period. E-mailing sometimes, for me, is difficult.
Chris Messina
#16. Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director.
Chris Messina
#17. 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.
Chris Messina
#18. The art of governing, Dickon, is that of making use of talent wherever you do find it. Trust is too rare an attribute to make it your prime prerequisite for holding office. If I relied only upon those I truly do trust, we'd have a council of empty chairs!
Sharon Kay Penman
#19. I like funny things, but I don't find myself particularly funny.
Chris Messina
#21. Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.
Pope Paul VI
#22. What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around.
Chris Messina
#23. God must have loved the plain people; He made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln
#24. I love 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really love that world. I love that style. I love all the actors on it.
Chris Messina
#25. 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.
Chris Messina
#26. 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.
Chris Messina
#27. Mark it down. God does not save us because of what we've done. Only a puny god could be bought with tithes. Only an egotistical god would be impressed with our pain. Only a temperamental god could be satisfied by sacrifices. Only a heartless god would sell salvation to the highest bidders.
Max Lucado
#28. Left to themselves, people remake their origin stories every few generations to suit present circumstances.
Jo Walton
#29. 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
#30. The self is too small an object for perpetual enthusiasm.
Huston Smith
#31. There's been a lot of times that I thought I'd never work again; I was really bummed out.
Chris Messina
#32. 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.
Chris Messina
#33. As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten to work with.'
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#34. 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.
Chris Messina
#35. Nothing is as it seems; everything is as you allow it to be
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