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.
ADAM RAPPI’ve written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it’s important for people to know that theatre is vital.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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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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Mary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
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Whenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.
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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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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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If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I’d have someone enter with a machine gun.
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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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I’ve never really felt that I’ve had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.
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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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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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You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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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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Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.
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I write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes,
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