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.
ADAM RAPPSometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
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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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 show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
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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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I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
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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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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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The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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I don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
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And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet
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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 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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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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