When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot. — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I find that more and more I'm trying to entertain myself when I'm working, because I know the work's going to go… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so… — Adam Rapp Actor Copy Share Image
I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't… — Adam Rapp Directors Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest works of theater, from Chekov's work to modern playwrights', consist of just a few people in a room… — Adam Rapp Actor Copy Share Image
When it's just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that. — Adam Rapp Actors Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me. — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
“Things were pretty cold-blooded back in Rockdale. That's when my arms were so pretty I could hold them up to the light… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
“I asked her if she liked PJ Harvey and she said that she liked her old stuff mostly and that Uh Huh… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren't going… — Adam Rapp Actor Copy Share Image
My life has been in shambles, like my personal relationships, my laundry, paying bills now I have someone who pays my bills… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
There was a kind of physical anarchy that dominated most of my younger life. I was always too skinny, not hairy enough,… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
The biggest audience for Off Broadway is mostly coming in on a train - either Upper East Siders or Metro-North. I go… — Adam Rapp Actor Copy Share Image
I've been living in Portland for five months and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I probably won't really know… — Adam Rapp Dog Copy Share Image
I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
“After his rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” Welton just stared straight ahead at the alter as if he were waiting for Jesus… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
One of the things that concerns me is the lack of adult supervision, and more specifically, caring adult supervision, at various reform… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
“To do it right, you need three people,” he explained. “One to hold em’ up. One to pocket the cash. And one… — Adam Rapp Giving birth Copy Share Image
I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen.… — Adam Rapp Ability Copy Share Image
“The room I got is best described as being a glorified closet. It was like four times worse than what they gave… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There's nothing stranger than the smell of someone else's house. The scent… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
“And then all of a sudden I realized how little time we have. Like on the earth, I mean. And when I… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
“Above the desk there was this framed picture of Jesus. He was reaching his hand out and making this face like he… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
When I work in the theater, you know you'll get this almost devotional, religious experience where you're breaking bread with everyone every… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I've never really felt that I've had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes. — Adam Rapp Clothes Copy Share Image
I like to write about teenagers because it's such an uncertain and dramatic time. — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
“Once I looked over at Welton and he was wiping his nose. I couldn’t tell if he was crying or on nasal… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I hate the idea of sheltering kids from challenging books. It's just another form of conservative fear that promotes ignorance more than… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. — Adam Rapp Actors Copy Share Image
I don't see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can. — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
“No one answered. You could hear the light buzzing over us. I love that sound. It means school isn't working, that the… — Adam Rapp Buzzing Copy Share Image
“We only have so much time, Mary,” I remember saying. “Time will kill you – it really will.” — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I don't put big concepts on my work, and it's all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting… — Adam Rapp Actor Copy Share Image
I don't like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in. — Adam Rapp Directors Copy Share Image
It's strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can't even answer it. — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I'm sensitive to it. — Adam Rapp Actors Copy Share Image
I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive, and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can't not… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort of narrative, and other… — Adam Rapp Dream Copy Share Image
