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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.

Adam Rapp

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 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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You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
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Escalate Excuse Hardest Keep Keeping Leave Part Tension
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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Ability Conflict Ending Everyone Fair Minor Write
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 show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
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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.
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I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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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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There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
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Exciting Fall Free Life Really Screwed Someone Up
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 don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
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I’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.
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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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I think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
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More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
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I won’t eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him.
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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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Anand Thakur
I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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Appreciated Criticism Important People Play Think Thinking
Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.
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Deeper Heart Put Somewhere
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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I know that they want certain things and they’re in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that.
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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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But when I’m writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I’m just impossible to get in touch with, and I don’t spend time with friends.
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Whenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.
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Fun Funny Laughing Really Rehearsal
I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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Anand Thakur

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 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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