In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
ADAM RAPPI imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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I think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
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And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet
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I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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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 feel that I’d rather know an actors’ work, or have an instinct about them and sit down and have coffee with them, or I’ll see them in something and I’ll see if I can get along with them in some way, shape, or form.
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You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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I’ll take a break for a couple weeks for a project that is paying me money like a television project which I try to stay away from just to stay financially ahead of the game.
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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 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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I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it.
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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.
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But when I’m writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I’m just impossible to get in touch with, and I don’t spend time with friends.
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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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Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
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Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
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Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
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Mary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
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I’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.
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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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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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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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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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I write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes,
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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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When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.
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