I’ve never really felt that I’ve had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.
ADAM RAPPI 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.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.
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I don’t like it when it’s consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature.
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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 don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
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And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
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Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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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.
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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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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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So I started to think like, “well if I’m going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct”.
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We’re so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
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