Michael Rapaport Quotes

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• Only a genius can play a fool.
• A Tribe Called Quest music was so inclusive, so conscious, it brought such a community together.
• Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!'…
• I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it.
• 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.
• To make independent films, you can't think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the enormity of it.
• But it all came, and for me, hip-hop has done more for racial divide and racial sort of bringing together than anything in the last…
• In any relationship that comes to an end, there's never just a baseline reason why. You say, 'Oh, I broke up with my girlfriend.' Someone…
• A beautiful girl can make you dizzy, like you've been drinking Jack and Coke all morning. She can make you feel high full of the…
• I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as…
• I had a boom box, but I didn't go too far with it because I had a really, really big one. It was like the…
• I heard Q-Tip on the Jungle Brothers' song 'The Promo.' It was very exciting. It was very new. The music and the culture around hip-hop…
• I would love to document the Roots; I think they have an interesting story. I have a curiosity about them. Their musicality and their live…
• Like any family, like any group - the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, EPMD, Public Enemy - they've had bumps in the road. I just think that…
• Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.
• So to compare the Beatles, obviously the Beatles are the Beatles, but in hip-hop terms, Tribe is the Beatles. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five…
• The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York…
• The thing about New York is you can leave your house without a plan and find the day. You can't do that in Los Angeles.…
• When I was a kid, my first favorite song was probably Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side.
• I love my kids, and the moments I have with them, and it's kind of weird, it's such an age old cliche, but the way…

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