I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.
ADAM RAPPI’ve never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn’t matter.
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I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it.
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I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I’ve lived here for sixteen years.
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I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren’t going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.
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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
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My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
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I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
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When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There’s nothing stranger than the smell of someone else’s house
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I know that they want certain things and they’re in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that.
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Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system.
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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
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I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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