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.
ADAM RAPPI don’t like it when it’s consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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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 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.
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I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
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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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When it’s just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.
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My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
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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 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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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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If it weren’t for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family’s turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.
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I don’t put big concepts on my work, and it’s all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting them leave.
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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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There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies.
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My life has been in shambles, like my personal relationships, my laundry, paying bills now I have someone who pays my bills and it’s always been a challenge because it overwhelms me.
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