Michael Rapaport Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I wrote my first play when I was eight.
-
The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.
-
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
-
With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.
-
If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.
-
I'm still enjoying discovering more designers and getting to play dress-up in a bigger way than I ever have before.
-
My first play was 'The Room', written when I was twenty-seven.
-
I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.
-
He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.
-
It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for some people somewhere there is no such thing as an insurmountable obstacle, an unplayable course, the wrong time of the day or year.
-
Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. She was a genius. In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish.
-
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
-
I think every credit you get and every film you have your name attached to makes things a little bit easier. It definitely opens doors up, but it's still a grind.
-
Only a genius can play a fool.
