I don’t mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart
ADAM RAPPThe stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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Whenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.
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I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn’t intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play
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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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When I’m directing, I’m pretty much not writing, but when I’m not directing I am writing a lot.
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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 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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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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Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
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I feel that I’d rather know an actors’ work, or have an instinct about them and sit down and have coffee with them, or I’ll see them in something and I’ll see if I can get along with them in some way, shape, or form.
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I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can’t not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops.
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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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I know that something inevitable will happen.
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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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