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Chris Messina Biography

Chris Messina (born August 11, 1974) is an American actor and film director. He has appeared in supporting roles in films such as Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Argo, Julie & Julia, Ruby Sparks, Celeste and Jesse Forever, and You've Got Mail. He won critical acclaim for his lead performance in the film The Giant Mechanical Man. On television, he is known for his roles as Chris Sanchez in Damages, Reese Lansing in The Newsroom and as Danny Castellano in The Mindy Project.

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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?

Everybody, Girl, Jobs, Lives, Think, Thinking

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.

Alone, Character, Cities, Head, Running

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.

Auditioning, Bridges, Car, Towel, Waiting, Waiting Around

Invented the #hashtag.

Bragging, Google, Hashtag, Hashtags, Invented

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.

Actors, Front, Good, Moment, People, Thinking

I'm from another time period. E-mailing sometimes, for me, is difficult.

Difficult, Period, Periods, Sometimes, Time

Woody Allen, when we did Vicky Cristina Barcelona, said to Rebecca Hall, "Do it one time happy, one time sad, and one time indifferent, as I won't know where you should be until I'm editing this, in terms of your emotions. "

Emotion, Happy, Indifferent, Time, Woody

I was shooting on The Mindy Project while I was editing Alex of Venice, which was the stupidest thing I could've done. It was like having two full-time jobs. But in editing some characters were dropped, some storylines were dropped. It just starts dictating what it's supposed to be. It's scary, but fun to try to be brave and to "kill your darlings. " To get rid of the stuff that you were like, "Oh, I'll never get rid of that. I love that. As long of a take as it is, I'm gonna keep that in. "

Character, Fun, Like, Long, Love

I'm from Long Island. Strong Island.

Island, Islands, Long, Strong

If you cry too much on screen, you're crying for the audience.

Audience, Cry, Crying, Screen

Nothing is as it seems; everything is as you allow it to be

Allow, Everything, Nothing, Seems

I mean, in the editing room, you sit there, and you're so happy about a lot of it. You've got these great actors, and the DP's great, and you love it. . . And then there's so much you're mad about. Cause you've made so many mistakes. So yeah, there're scenarios where you're like, "Ah, I wish I could change this. How do I make this better?" "No matter what I do, the scene's not working, what do I do?"

Actors, Mad, Mean, Mistake, Mistakes, Yeah

I love 'Boardwalk Empire. ' I really love that world. I love that style. I love all the actors on it.

Actors, Boardwalk, Style, World

You live through the play at 8 o'clock, straight through, and nobody can call "Cut!" But also with the stage you're getting instant reactions. You hear people snoring in the audience, and bored to tears, or sometimes you hear the laughter, and you can hear them listening.

Audience, Cut, Cutting, Laughter, People, Snoring

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.

Couple, Months, Play, Somebody, Way

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.

Lucky, Actors, Great Actors, Working, Actor

My wife Jennifer Todd, who's a producer. She runs Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's company, and she produced Memento, and Boiler Room, and Prime, and Across the Universe. . . and Alice in Wonderland. . . She's really smart, and very helpful. That was nice, because I was super neurotic and worried.

Alice, Jennifer, Nice, Running, Smart, Wonderland

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.

Girl, Having, People, Spent, Trying, Youth

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.

Day, Eye, Girlfriend, Love, Thinking, Years

I like funny things, but I don't find myself particularly funny.

Funny, Funny Things, Like, Particularly, Things

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