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 once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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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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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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Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
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One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.
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We used to have to arrange things around the dialysis. I would have to plan where to play so I could be back in time, and couldn't go too far.
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I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.
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Each game we play, every game is a championship-game mindset.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.
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I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
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In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected me most. One American film that stands out for me for its workmanship and artistry is 'Ratatouille.' It was an astonishing effort in filmmaking.
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Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.
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Only a genius can play a fool.
