Michael Rapaport Quotes
I'm identified as a New York actor, I sound like I'm from New York, and I couldn't be more proud of it.
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There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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I'm from Miami, I love it when we're out in the heat. When it's cold, I'm like, 'I'm never acting again,' because it's too freezing.
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There are a lot of bad people out there.
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How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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You won't see me at a microphone singing and tapping my foot. I spend a lot of money on sets, costumes and sound. I believe people deserve a show. I'm a singer, musician, dancer. I work hard, and I'm soaking wet when I come off.
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There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
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I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.
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I don't like messing up. I think that's just a part of my personality. I don't like to mess up or do anything wrong. When I'm in gymnastics, I like to see my hit percent as high as possible.
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No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.
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My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.
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I am not a fan of westerns particularly.
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I never really had a strong accent.
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Sometimes the better an actor is, the less he's noticed.
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America used to be proud of abstraction, and we have fallen away from it. The future depends on people trying to promote that abstract thinking. Not just in relation to music and jazz and the arts, but the economy, social strife, tension between people.
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And I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm goneAnd I can't question how or when or why when I'm goneCan't live proud enough to die when I'm goneSo I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here.
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
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I think it would be frustrating having to do things you wouldn't want to do, having to make movies you didn't like.
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I'm identified as a New York actor, I sound like I'm from New York, and I couldn't be more proud of it.
