Michael Rapaport Quotes
I'm always gonna be an actor, so I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do next. I would love to make a documentary again someday, but I need to take a break from it.
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
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Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.
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I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.
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After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.
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We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.
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Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.
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Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
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In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.
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Rumours are a part and parcel of being an actor, and I am okay with that.
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I kind of knew it wasn't going to be until my 30s that I really hit my stride as an actor.
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As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.
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Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.
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No actor has complete freedom.
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My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.
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I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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One trick I swear by: I pour a little neroli or lavender oil onto a hot towel and use it to wipe off my makeup. It opens up my pores, and then my face cream sinks in better.
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In seeking for justice men seek for the mean or neutral, for the law is the mean. Again, customary laws have more weight, and relate to more important matters, than written laws, and a man may be a safer ruler than the written law, but not safer than the customary law.
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I'm always gonna be an actor, so I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do next. I would love to make a documentary again someday, but I need to take a break from it.
