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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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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'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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Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.
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I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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The Network Generation are secure in, and proud of, their Scottishness. Unlike my generation that grew up in the '80s, they don't see our sense of identity as under threat.
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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
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My husband is very proud of me and what I do. Which I think is really sweet.
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If you look at a map, you see that Hawaii is in the middle of nowhere. It's 17 hours of straight flying from London. It's very far away, and sometimes you feel as if you're on another planet. But I like that. Also, that's ideal for writing.
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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.
