Michael Rapaport Quotes
Positive doesn't mean unflawed: It means human and vulnerable. If you make a film and you're portraying the subject with respect, you're gonna do it in an honest way.
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When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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I had many, many mentors that I worked with. Music teachers, choir directors, directors in summer stock or in regional theater. You know, people I was able to work with repeatedly and learn from who were really sort of appropriate people for me to work with at a given time in my development as an actor.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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You don't try to do more than you should.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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I always wanted Han Solo's confidence and swagger. My personality is way more C-3PO, but Han was always who I wanted to be.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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I have always loathed working out.
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My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.
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Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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I am very much a Republican.
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I've never wanted to live in a ghetto or write in a ghetto. I want to write about a world that reflects the one most people live in. Gay people are just one aspect of that.
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If you look at my record, I have a clean record.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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I used to feel like I was drowning. So I stopped trying to swim.
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I didn't go and quit anything. I remained who I am, so I don't know if anybody wants to criticize. I'm still me.
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Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive.
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People call me a theater actor, but I'm just an actor. But I tell my friends all the time - especially a lot that do theater and haven't done a lot of TV/film - that you have so much more control over your work onstage. When you go onstage, you can really see the difference between people who can really do it, and people who are just kind of pretending to do it. There is no editor, there's nothing that's going to stop the actor from showing what they can do unless it's not a well-written role.
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Positive doesn't mean unflawed: It means human and vulnerable. If you make a film and you're portraying the subject with respect, you're gonna do it in an honest way.
