I don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
ADAM RAPPThe stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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My work is always more emotional than I am.
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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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There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies.
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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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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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Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
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I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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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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A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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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’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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My life has been in shambles, like my personal relationships, my laundry, paying bills now I have someone who pays my bills and it’s always been a challenge because it overwhelms me.
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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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The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.
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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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I’ve never really felt that I’ve had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.
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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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There’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.
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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 have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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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 think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it.
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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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My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
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