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.

Michael Rapaport

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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.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Work
  • Spirit
  • Matter

• 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.

  

  Majandra Delfino
  • Like
  • Never
  • Cold

• There are a lot of bad people out there.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • People
  • Bad
  • Bad People

• 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.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Good
  • Girl

• 'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Times
  • Drive
  • Sophisticated

• I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Like
  • Outside
  • Philadelphia

• 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.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• 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.

  

  Dan Butler
  • Different
  • True
  • Picture

• 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.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• 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.

  

  Jacob Dalton
  • Up
  • High
  • Think

• No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Think
  • More
  • Slave

• My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Orphanage

• 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.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Job

• He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Without
  • Newspaper
  • Cut

• I am not a fan of westerns particularly.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Fan
  • Westerns

• I never really had a strong accent.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Strong
  • Never
  • Really

• Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.

  

  Eason Jordan
  • People
  • Information
  • Sin

• I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Mother
  • Die
  • Thought

• While working for Diplomat Records, I helped several artists with their online branding and social media. Once I left the label, I worked directly with artists and noticed many artists were overlooked and underrated if they weren't in 'XXL' or 'The Source.'

  

  Karen Civil

• Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Love
  • Theater
  • Started

• A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.

  

  Yann Martel
  • True

• If I don't have a script I adore, I do one I like. If I don't have one I like, I do one that has an actor I like or that presents some technical challenge.

  

  Sidney Lumet
  • Actor
  • Script
  • I Like

• 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.

  

  Michael Rapaport
  • Proud
  • Actor
  • New York