Chris Eigeman
Chris Eigeman
Christopher "Chris" Eigemanis an American actor and a film director...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth1 March 1965
CityColorado Springs, CO
CountryUnited States of America
absolutely explained guy taxi time took
I took a cabbie to taxi court once. Years ago, this guy didn't want to take me to Brooklyn. Just refused. I explained that I would absolutely take him to Taxi Court because, see, I'm an actor and have pretty much nothing but free time.
Even though I am in my mid-40s, I live like I am in my mid-20s.
Being an actor started me writing, and that led to directing.
instilled
My first show was 'No Exit.' You couldn't find a more pretentious beginning, but it also instilled some sense of quality.
invited promptly school thrown
I was going to be in an acting school in London, and then I promptly got thrown out of an acting school in London. Well, it wasn't that I got thrown out as much as I was not invited back, which is the same thing, just more polite.
defined serves
I'm a Jesuit when it comes to structure, but I really think that structure is defined by character. Everything serves that master.
notion perhaps
I had a very misguided notion of what 'network notes' were. I thought they were well-meant suggestions, perhaps urgently meant, but just suggestions nonetheless. And actually, they're demands. You have to do them, or you will not be paid.
atomic bebop change coming dominated early exactly late science swing
Musically, swing pretty much dominated in the '30s. And into the late '30s, swing is beginning to change over to bebop in the early '40s, which is exactly when this new science of theoretical physics, particularly theoretical atomic physics, was really coming to the fore.
fill forced form tax
I think, basically, I am an actor. Sometimes I'm an actor who's writing and sometimes an actor who's directing, but I think if I'm forced to fill out a form for my tax return, 'actor' is the first thing I write down.
apartment dad floor mom pool sundays table top
My mom and dad got divorced, so it was one of those things where Sundays I'd go to Dad's apartment, and this was, say, 1970-whatever, and it had a pool table on the top floor in a very traditional kind of divorced-dad apartment building.
comedy funny love showing trying until work
I really love showing up at work at 10 A.M., trying to make it funny until 3 P.M., and then going home. It's like comedy bankers' hours.
music playing sets visitors
I like a no-drama set. I welcome visitors by and large; I like music playing on sets between set-ups - all that stuff.
grew ranch spent summers
I grew up in Colorado and spent my summers in Montana as a ranch hand.
movies stage
I never thought about movies. I never thought about Hollywood. It was just being on the stage and being in New York.