Adam Rapp Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Compassion Quotes

I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.

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I feel that I'd rather know an actors' work, or have an instinct about them and sit down and have coffee with them, or I'll see them in something and I'll see if I can get along with them in some way, shape, or form.

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I appreciate good criticism and I think it's really important. I don't like it when it's consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature. I've written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it's important for people to know that theatre is vital. Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town. Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It's killing new plays, demolishing one after another.

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The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.

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A typical day for me is I'm writing when I'm not directing.

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I don't mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart; the same way you can hear a song in your head even if there isn't a radio playing; the same way you can hear those blackbirds flying when they're not in the sky

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I think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I'm sensitive to it.

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I don't put big concepts on my work, and it's all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting them leave.

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I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it's a lie already at work.

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It's been hard for me to not write, and that's the only process I can speak to I guess, it's so compulsive and I need to do it all the time that sometimes I make myself not do it so I can actually tend to my life.

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You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.

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When it's just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.

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