Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
ADAM RAPPIt just happens quicker and faster now.
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I’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.
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When it’s just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.
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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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Mary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
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You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
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It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.
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You can’t run forever.
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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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I won’t eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him.
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There’s only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky.
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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
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If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I’d have someone enter with a machine gun.
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The same way you can hear a song in your head even if there isn’t a radio playing; the same way you can hear those blackbirds flying when they’re not in the sky
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It’s been hard for me to not write, and that’s the only process I can speak to I guess, it’s so compulsive and I need to do it all the time that sometimes I make myself not do it so I can actually tend to my life.
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And you can’t go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
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It’s strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can’t even answer it.
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There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies.
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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’ve written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it’s important for people to know that theatre is vital.
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I don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
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Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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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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I don’t mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart
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