Chris Messina

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

Doing something like 'Damages,' I played a character with post-traumatic stress. I was playing with sleep deprivation. I was not sleeping; I stayed up for three days at a time, drinking Red Bull. I would get shaky and tired and hyper. ”

You don't get to rehearse much on TV. You are kind of rehearsing on film. Depending on the way you work, that's either a good thing or a bad thing. ”

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 lucky to just be a working actor. There are so many great actors out there and I'm just lucky to have gotten work. ”

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