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.
ADAM RAPPI’ve written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it’s important for people to know that theatre is vital.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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Whenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.
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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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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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There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies.
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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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What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
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More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
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Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
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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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I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it’s a lie already at work.
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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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I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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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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My life has been in shambles, like my personal relationships, my laundry, paying bills now I have someone who pays my bills and it’s always been a challenge because it overwhelms me.
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