Quotes from Chris Messina

I don't have much interest in gingerbread houses - except in eating them.

For the longest time, I was always like a guy that people would think they went to high school with. They'd be like, 'How do I know you?' After, we'd play a guessing game. I'd say, 'I'm an actor,' and they'd go, 'Oh, what have you been in?' I'd list my credits, and they wouldn't really remember me.

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

I was in a movie called 'Before & After' with Meryl Streep. I was edited out of the movie, but no one told me. I think I was 18 or 19 years old. I sat across from her and asked her every question about acting. I completely embarrassed myself.

Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director.

The truth is really funny. It's uncomfortable sometimes, it's dramatic sometimes, but it's really funny. Life is funny.

Well, it's always strange to kiss someone with 10, 20, 40 people around.

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.

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.

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?

There's been a lot of times that I thought I'd never work again; I was really bummed out.

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.

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.

I'm from Long Island. Strong Island.

The main thing about doing a comedy is that you spend most of your days really happy and laughing.