Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
ADAM RAPPI 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.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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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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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 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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When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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You don’t really develop feelings about a place till you’ve left it. It’s like a girl or a dog.
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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 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 because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I’m sensitive to it.
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I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
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I don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
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What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.
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And you can’t go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
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I don’t know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady’s, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts.
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I know that something inevitable will happen.
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