Michael Rapaport Quotes
If my son was an actor I would tell him, "Don't let people know as much about you as I let people know about me." Because I think professionally, it's an easier road. That would be something I would tell a young actor. But it's cool.
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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.
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I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.
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And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.
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Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.
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People always say to me, 'It must have been wonderful coming from old Hollywood, with all those movie stars,' but I never knew anyone. I didn't even know who Charlie Chaplin was. My parents really kept me away from it all.
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What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
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Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.
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I try to eat fruit and be healthy.
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Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.
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'Kiss Me.' That's my 'Twilight' tune, a song you'd have on the 'Twilight' soundtrack.
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Forget the infinities: Concentrate on detail.
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If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
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When I'm in a foreign city, I like to get to know it like a local.
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I believe we need to ensure there are no refugees placed in Arizona with connections to terrorist organizations.
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A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive.
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If my son was an actor I would tell him, "Don't let people know as much about you as I let people know about me." Because I think professionally, it's an easier road. That would be something I would tell a young actor. But it's cool.
