Michael Rapaport Quotes

Being a part of independent-film world, the independent-film community, that's what you do. You support each other. If someone's doing a movie and you trust them, you roll the dice. Sometimes it's gonna be good, sometimes it's gonna be something that's like, "Oh I don't know what the hell that is." But I've been more fortunate than not to have it work well.

Michael Rapaport

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• People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Technology
  • Data

• All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Joy
  • Sorrow
  • Out

• It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • You
  • Audience
  • Crying

• I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Today
  • Media
  • Still

• If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • People
  • Real
  • Control

• All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Trust
  • Creator
  • Teaches

• People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.

  

  Barbara Cooney
  • Art
  • She
  • Mother

• Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • Words
  • Poetry

• I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Enjoy
  • Silence
  • Where

• I wrote my first play as extra credit for my fourth grade English class. 'Can Helen Stop Smoking' was a satire on the ill effects of cigarette smoking. My friend Vicki Haugabrook played as Helen and I directed the show. At the time, my brother Vince was leading the campaign to get our grandmother to quit.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Friend

• Not every brand needs to be on every social platform. Brands should have a very strategic objective, whether it's marketing or commercial. The biggest mistake a brand can make is to be on a social platform without a plan or the resources to manage it.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Mistake
  • Marketing
  • Brand

• Everyone seems to relate to the awkwardness of being a teenager, or even a 30-year-old.

  

  Eddie Kaye Thomas
  • Being
  • Teenager
  • Everyone

• Philosophies change by the day while God never changes, simply because, being perfect, He does not have to change!

  

  Jimmy Swaggart
  • God
  • Perfect

• I want my kids to date; I want them to go out. I just remember great experiences as a kid, you know? Driving your car for the first time, picking up a young lady on a date for the first time. All those were little milestones to some extent.

  

  Chip Gaines
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• That's what my dad always said. 'If you're very lucky, it'll work out.' I love what it is I do, and I realize how blessed I am. So now it's just about doing the work as good as possible and enjoying the ride.

  

  Brian Dietzen
  • Good
  • Work
  • Dad

• One of Trump's vulnerabilities is that he doesn't always vet his people, whether it's business partners, the dubious characters he retweets, or the foreign leaders who show up at his door.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • People
  • Up
  • Business

• My life is different since I moved back to L.A. from New York, mostly because I have a family and I don't go out.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Life
  • Different
  • Family

• That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • God
  • Women
  • Why

• When you're modeling you're actually acting for the camera and the photographer. It's more fun, too because there are no lines to memorize.

  

  Cindy Margolis
  • Fun

• As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally and not imagined how kids would talk. Always a big fan of Chris Columbus' dialogue and storytelling.

  

  Adam Green
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Speak

• The action-movie genre is a very difficult one to get satiated in terms of your acting bits.

  

  Jason Statham
  • Movie
  • Action

• When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Guy
  • Inspiration
  • Kid

• Being a part of independent-film world, the independent-film community, that's what you do. You support each other. If someone's doing a movie and you trust them, you roll the dice. Sometimes it's gonna be good, sometimes it's gonna be something that's like, "Oh I don't know what the hell that is." But I've been more fortunate than not to have it work well.

  

  Michael Rapaport
  • Movie
  • Hell
  • Fortunate