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.
ADAM RAPPWhen I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There’s nothing stranger than the smell of someone else’s house
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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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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I’ve been living in Portland for five months and I’m not sure how I feel about it. I probably won’t really know for years because that’s how it works right?
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Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
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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 began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
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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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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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One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
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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 appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
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You can’t run forever.
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I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet
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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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