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 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 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 MessinaWoody 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."
Chris MessinaIf 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.
Chris Messina