Michael Rapaport Quotes
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Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the story is fantastic and I can be a part of it somehow. That's what I look for.
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There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction.
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear.
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You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.
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The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous intellects who are very exciting to spend an evening with. I never see them as bad people.
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I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
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I wrote my first play when I was eight.
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The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.
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I'm still enjoying discovering more designers and getting to play dress-up in a bigger way than I ever have before.
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My first play was 'The Room', written when I was twenty-seven.
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I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.
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After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.
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Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
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I am not going to go round trying to make people say 'Wow!'... I'm not going to play Hollywood lookalikes.
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We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.
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But it doesn't stop at school. We can all enjoy books throughout our lives - as I certainly continue to do.
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Only a genius can play a fool.
