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.
ADAM RAPPI think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I’m sensitive to it.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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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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A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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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 show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
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I’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.
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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’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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I write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes,
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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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The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
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When I’m directing, I’m pretty much not writing, but when I’m not directing I am writing a lot.
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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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I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.
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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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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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I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can’t not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops.
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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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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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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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And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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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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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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I find that more and more I’m trying to entertain myself when I’m working, because I know the work’s going to go to a horrible place.
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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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When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I’m a much more practical person in the world,
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I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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