Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
ADAM RAPPThere’s only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
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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 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 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 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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It’s been hard for me to not write, and that’s the only process I can speak to I guess, it’s so compulsive and I need to do it all the time that sometimes I make myself not do it so I can actually tend to my life.
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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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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 think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
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I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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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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When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I’m a much more practical person in the world,
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The scent goes right to your stomach.
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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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