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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I always knew I wanted to create. I used to sit in my room for hours drawing and making things. I once got into trouble for cutting up my mother's lampshades to make a dress. I was three.
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I find human behavior really interesting. I think that's ultimately what being an actor is. You explore what it means to be human.
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Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.
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If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.
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They change their skies, but not their souls who run across the sea.
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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.
