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.
Chris MessinaI 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 MessinaWhen 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 MessinaI'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