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.
ADAM RAPPMary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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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 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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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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There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
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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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I think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
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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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The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
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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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Whenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.
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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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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’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn’t intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play
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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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