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We only have so much time.... Time will kill you it really will.
Adam Rapp
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Adam Rapp
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: June 15
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More quotes by Adam Rapp
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 try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible, I write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel but sometimes, 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 think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I'm sensitive to it.
Adam Rapp
I think I'm a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
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You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
Adam Rapp
It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.
Adam Rapp
I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it's a lie already at work.
Adam Rapp
It's strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can't even answer it.
Adam Rapp
I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
Adam Rapp
In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever. The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit. And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet we're so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
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You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
Adam Rapp
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.
Adam Rapp
When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot.
Adam Rapp
Man, that's the only kind of book I like one that's so real you want to find out everything there is to know about the person who wrote it, like how tall he is and what kind of music he likes and whether or not he really went through all the stuff he was writing about.
Adam Rapp
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.
Adam Rapp
A typical day for me is I'm writing when I'm not directing.
Adam Rapp
I don't mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart the same way you can hear a song in your head even if there isn't a radio playing the same way you can hear those blackbirds flying when they're not in the sky
Adam Rapp
I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest. Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart. Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can't find it with all their machines and microcameras.
Adam Rapp
When I kicked in the first TV a nineteen-inch Magnavox with wicker speaker panels it felt like the most perfect thing I had done in a long time. And there's nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
Adam Rapp
Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.
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