Adam Rapp
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DYLAN MINNETTE I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face th... YUNJIN KIM DREAMA WALKER GREGG ALLMAN JOHN GREEN Mara Casey gave me my first job. I saw something online, and it was for a part in a 'Gilmore Gir... RAMI MALEK SHALOM HARLOW I was scared to film 'GLOW' for many reasons. As an actor, as a wrestler. It was just a very... BETTY GILPIN MAX VON ESSEN My first American experience was in the harbor of New York City when I saw that amazing big, tall la... RITA MORENO 'Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was grea... ZACHARY LEVI FRANK MCCOURT TIA MOWRY I had been coming to New York, pretty much once a month, to dance on Broadway. I was offered a huge ... SAMI GAYLE When I was a kid, my friends and I formed a band, Trombone Shorty's Brass Band. When I was six, ... TROMBONE SHORTY SASHA PIETERSE MARK RUFFALO When I was a teenager, if you'd asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New Yor... ALEKSA PALLADINO A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you hav... WARREN GILES We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I... MARGOT KIDDER While researching 'The Submission,' I went to a protest against the Ground Zero mosque in Ne... AMY WALDMAN When I got my very first phone call that I'd hit the 'New York Times' list, I had a smal... LISA GARDNER My brother and sister-in-law started the church in Warwick and that was when we became part of it. F... GARY DEGRAIDE When I saw 'The Player', I came out with knots in my stomach because it was so true to my ex... DOUGLAS WOOD DEYTH BANGER I saw everybody in front of me, and their eyes were going crazy. It was a scary five or six seconds.... MARTIN BRODEUR ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH A man can define many things beautifully in his life, but his character is one beautiful thing that ... ANUJ SOMANY How did I feel as a guy who was making a movie about a single mom who's a crackhead? That - I wa... BARRY JENKINS I was not a 'Doctor Who' fan. As a kid, I thought it was scary and for boys. CATHERINE TATE STEVEN SPIELBERG JOAN RIVERS I was an enormous fan of Dan Slott's run, and John Byrne's run was a big deal for me. I foun... CHARLES SOULE NEIL GAIMAN It wasn't until 2013 that I even started working in film. It was always something I wanted to do... CHRIS WOOD At times it's been weird because for the first phase of my career, I've been really well-kno... SEANN WILLIAM SCOTT If you can't do it today, You can not do it in your whole life! Do it NOW! KAMAL KHANZADA My mom was a singer in Chicago and still is a cabaret singer, and she was very theatrical. And my da... HAYES MACARTHUR OLIVIA COLMAN I was a club kid. I was on the cover of 'New York' magazine and discovered like that. VANESSA FERLITO DALLAS ROBERTS RACHEL MCADAMS I've always liked New York, as I like towns with an edge and New York has a European feel, so wh... BILLY CHILDISH 'Free Agents' was an awesome experience. I never play the glam girl in anything, so that was... KATHRYN HAHN The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky... EDDIE MARSAN H. G. BISSINGER I don't understand anyone thinking I'm sexy at all. I don't get it because, growing up a... SOPHIE MONK It was a little scary. It sounded like a freight train, and then I saw two tall electric poles snapp... MIKE HOFFMAN SHARON STONE I had a place to go to university; I was going to study history. I was in New York doing 'Arcadi... BEL POWLEY I was 22 and had worked on Wall Street for a year, and quit my job. I bought a motorcycle and sort o... JON FAVREAU There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He ... CAROL VORDERMAN CHRISTINA ENGELA KEKE PALMER My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was ... JOE LHOTA MIKE BIRBIGLIA My biggest enemy for the longest time was my head. When I first became successful, it made me anxiou... CHET FAKER SHELDON LEE GLASHOW My sixth book, 'A Breath of Snow and Ashes,' was nominated for a number of book awards, one ... DIANA GALBADON DIANA GABALDON LAURA MVULA KATE MOSS BAILEY CHASE GEORGE R.R. MARTIN SEAN MAHER OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I had some experience when I joined 'The Sopranos' in the last season. My character married ... CARA BUONO It was like that for the first six months after 'E.T.' was in cinemas. I'd go out and ge... HENRY THOMAS When I was 18, I was moving to New York to start college at The New School. I had done a year of col... STACEY FARBER DAN FEUERRIEGEL MARTIN HENDERSON CHESTER BROWN When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was ... ADAM FERRARA 'Brisco' was the first show I created, and of course, at the time I had no idea what a speci... CARLTON CUSE BUSY PHILIPPS ROBERT GOTTLIEB BUSY PHILIPPS Every song brings back memories, like I remember where I wrote all these songs. 'Universal Heart... JULIANA HATFIELD The bracelet says 'Fear Nothing.' It was given to me by my friends, and it was made for me a... JOSEPH J. LHOTA All the way on the West Coast, never having seen a Broadway show, it was like, 'They don't w... DAVEED DIGGS I spent two years at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and then some New York types saw me there a... PETER MACNICOL The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end th... PATRICK DUFFY I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that... TAMARA TUNIE The first movie that ever scared me, I feel like it wasn't a scary movie. I feel like it was ... WYATT RUSSELL When I was on 'Dallas,' I was known to audiences of the '80s. And then when my sons, who... PATRICK DUFFY I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I ... JON MCGREGOR John Cleese was a big hero of mine. He grew up in Weston Super Mare near Bristol where I grew up; he... STEPHEN MERCHANT It's so funny, because when I was growing up in a small town in New Hampshire, I was obsessed wi... ELIZA COUPE CONNOR FRANTA AMY ADAMS
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I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort of narrative,... ADAM RAPP I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen s... ADAM RAPP When I work in the theater, you know you'll get this almost devotional, religious experience whe... ADAM RAPP I don't see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can. ADAM RAPP Some of the greatest works of theater, from Chekov's work to modern playwrights', consist of... ADAM RAPP I hate the idea of sheltering kids from challenging books. It's just another form of conservativ... ADAM RAPP When I came to New York, I was really awkward. I went to military academy for high school, so I didn... ADAM RAPP When you're making under-million-dollar films, it becomes so much about actors' availability... ADAM RAPP Film directing has perfected my theater directing. I think when I first started directing, a lot of ... ADAM RAPP When you're poor, you don't want anyone to know you're poor. ADAM RAPP I like to write about teenagers because it's such an uncertain and dramatic time. ADAM RAPP The biggest audience for Off Broadway is mostly coming in on a train - either Upper East Siders or M... ADAM RAPP One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.... ADAM RAPP When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing... ADAM RAPP I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concep... ADAM RAPP My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accuse... ADAM RAPP I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive, and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of... ADAM RAPP I love plays that have musical moments. I'm not a big fan of musicals per se, but I love straigh... ADAM RAPP I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatologic... ADAM RAPP I was a jock in college and high school, but I didn't hang out with the jocks. I was sort of a n... ADAM RAPP There was a kind of physical anarchy that dominated most of my younger life. I was always too skinny... ADAM RAPP I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel tha... ADAM RAPP I was born in Chicago, then I spent most of my youth in Joliet, Illinois which is about thirty minut... ADAM RAPP I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. ... ADAM RAPP I don't mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart; the same way you... ADAM RAPP There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself. ANTHONY RAPP The number of people who said that it made a difference to them that I'm out is the reason that I'm ... ANTHONY RAPP Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core. ANTHONY RAPP to say it's a dream come true doesn't do it justice, because I've never dreamed this big. The film a... ANTHONY RAPP Frankly, if people aren't going to cast me because I'm queer, than I don't want to work with them. ANTHONY RAPP When we did shoot in the East Village, they had to spread around a lot of trash and put transparenci... ANTHONY RAPP When we did shoot in the East Village, they had to spread around a lot of trash and put transparenci... ANTHONY RAPP I think the most important cause for me is to try to represent honesty. I'm not saying I'm perfect, ... ANTHONY RAPP Labels are for cans, not people. ANTHONY RAPP Ronan taught me that children do not exist to honor their parents; their parents exist to honor them... EMILY RAPP This is the first big test for our trolley system, and we're looking forward to it. There's enough p... PAUL RAPP We've been there before. It's tough, but Andre Agassi is a draw unlike any other. BILL RAPP Andre told me that if he wasn't 100 per cent he didn't want to go out and compete. It's the sciatic ... BILL RAPP That's a tough one. I'm not going to pretend that's not an issue. But as with any ticket they buy, t... BILL RAPP Andre told me that if he wasn't 100 percent he didn't want to go out and compete. It's the sciatic (... BILL RAPP I think he just wanted to take off. BILL RAPP We immediately saw better uptime. We saw better provisioning of hardware. This system makes it easie... GEORGE RAPP For us the biggest problem was still downtime. The Windows machines still required frequent patching... GEORGE RAPP Love is somthing that can not be explained - the force that drives us to protect the ones we care ... ADAM Good people eat all their veggies and all the fruits, but they still have good grades. I call this, ... ADAM ADAM DURITZ Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating tur... ADAM DAVIDSON ADAM DRIVER ADAM WEST There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance. ADAM PEATY ADAM WEST You may love football, but that doesn't mean you have any business trying to play the sport. It&... ADAM GREEN I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedbac... ADAM OATES ADAM GRANT So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't... ADAM LEVINE Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true... ADAM LEVINE ADAM MCKAY I don't want to be an actor, but why not take these opportunities when they come to you? I'm... ADAM LEVINE The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was most... ADAM MICHNIK I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself th... ADAM LAMBERT I was kind of the black sheep with the Disney kids. I was uninterested in making friends with most o... ADAM LAMBERG ADAM SANDLER ADAM SANDLER ADAM WEST ADAM MCKAY It is unlikely that we will hit a home run anytime soon but if we are unable to get rid of offensive... ADAM DODEK That's the most amazing thing about writing, whether it's in prose or comics: that you can c... ADAM CHRISTOPHER Historically, diversity has been a real issue for superhero comics - so we need to do something abou... ADAM CHRISTOPHER To be honest, writing comics is a dream come true - the form is unparalleled and is home to some of ... ADAM CHRISTOPHER Our house has a library - it seemed better use of the space than as a dining room! - and I try to sp... ADAM CHRISTOPHER 'The Burning Dark' needs a certain kind of soundtrack - something dark and moody, electronic... ADAM CHRISTOPHER My own writing has perhaps more of an American flavor than a British one, but that's because the... ADAM CHRISTOPHER The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent ... ADAM CHRISTOPHER I'm an internet junkie. There, I said it. That's the first step, right? I also have a thing ... ADAM CHRISTOPHER ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA ADAM CAROLLA My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bi... ADAM BROWN As a first movie, 'The Hobbit' is not a bad place to start. ADAM BROWN It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches. ADAM BROWN You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It&#... 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ADAM BALDWIN I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall. ADAM BALDWIN I think work begets work. ADAM BALDWIN What I try to do is to appreciate every job I have while I'm working on it. ADAM BALDWIN The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines.... ADAM BALDWIN I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape. ADAM BALDWIN A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are e... ADAM BALDWIN I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch ... ADAM BALDWIN I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me. ADAM BALDWIN It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A... ADAM BALDWIN I just consider myself a piece of the puzzle and I'm lucky enough to be asked or invited to the ... ADAM BALDWIN Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me. ADAM BALDWIN ADAM ANT ADAM ANT ADAM ANT ADAM ANT ADAM ANT ADAM ANT ADAM ANT ADAM ANT ADAM ANT ADAM ANT ADAM ANT ADAM ANT ADAM ANT ADAM ANT ADAM ANT ADAM ANT ADAM ANT ADAM ANT ADAM ANT ADAM ANT ADAM ANT ADAM ANT ADAM ANT Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situati... ADAM PETTY I have patterned myself after my father and God. ADAM PETTY They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there. ADAM PETTY It's all about racing on the track. ADAM PETTY I believe in that gladiatorial mind-set. I love it. ADAM PEATY The roar of the crowd when you come out for a final is like nothing else: when 15,000 people are che... ADAM PEATY I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression. ADAM PEATY I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music. ADAM PEATY My family are massive fans of 'I'm A Celeb,' so that would be pretty cool. There's s... ADAM PEATY I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a chea... ADAM PEATY It hasn't always been a sweet ride. When I was 15, I almost hated racing in finals because I was... ADAM PEATY Training is my drug. I'm going to be the best I can in and out of the water - train right, eat r... ADAM PEATY I am only this successful because I'm so good at grounding myself. ADAM PEATY I love tuning into Radio 1 on a Friday night after training and hearing the new stuff. ADAM PEATY Not that I went into the Olympics with any doubt, but my holiday plans afterwards depended on how we... ADAM PEATY I believe I can get faster because I have trained for it, and I'm doing faster times I've ev... ADAM PEATY Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years. ADAM PEATY
It is a lie. 
When I was little, I put on plays for my family at Sunday dinner, and I would direct them and have a... 
I've had one experience of writer's block in my life, and it was living hell. It was a terro... 
I moved to New York when I was 17 and I had no idea what I was doing. I really thought I was going t... 
I really told my story as I saw it in 'Cross to Bear,' and I was pleased - and a bit surpris... 
If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV ... 
When I started coming to do shows in New York, New York had a pretty electric energy then. It was th... 
My passion was to be on Broadway and to be part of this community because I saw what it was like fro... 
When I first came to New York and saw Italian families and their displays of affection, I was taken ... 
I was a vegan for about a year, and it was a great experience. And I became vegan not because of ani... 
I got my heel stuck in a drain as I was crossing the street and cars were coming. It was really scar... 
I was probably 8 years old; my mom let me stay up one night. She's like, 'You have to see th... 
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! 
There are so many things we do in life that define the real meaning of our lives. There are so many ... 
My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because h... 
I adore my apartment in New York. It was a ballroom that I remade, so it's like a loft but done ... 
It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... 
I've always done drama, but I suppose 'Tyrannosaur' was a bit of a watershed moment for ... 
In the acting community in New York we call 'Law & Order' 'grad school,' because... 
I watched a lot of soap operas like 'General Hospital' and 'Days Of Our Lives.' When... 
Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in Ne... 
At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claus... 
For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... 
I feel like I've been known for having long black hair, so when I took all my extensions out and... 
When I was starting out, I thought I would go into comedy and there would be a mentor, like the Phil... 
From an early age, I knew I would become a scientist. It may have been my brother Sam's doing. H... 
My sixth book, 'A Breath of Snow and Ashes', was nominated for a number of book awards, one ... 
I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney mus... 
If the plane lost all my luggage, and I was somewhere sunny like Ibiza, I would just get a bikini, s... 
'Damages' was cool. It brought me back to New York for a little while, so that was a lot of ... 
History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... 
Starting a new job is always scary, or at least for me it's always scary. It's like the firs... 
I felt 'Gone with the Wind' would last five years, and it's lasted over 70 and into a ne... 
I've heard people tell me there's never been a gay character like Agron on TV before, and so... 
My dad was my hero when I was a young boy. And then it's a toss-up between Han Solo, the New Zea... 
Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric... 
And then I went to 'Dawson's Creek,' which is a show that was, for better or for worse, ... 
In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York ... 
I was in New York and I went to a meatball shop with my friend and there was paparazzi there and I t... 
The first time I got recognized in public was at a movie theater. It was at the 'Lord of the Rin... 
Moving out to L.A. for me was a leap of faith. I was very secure in my dinner theater world; I loved... 
Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear... 
I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room o... 
When I was getting started, I was so busy just fighting my way through, and I was under contract at ... 
When you wear a mask and create a character, nothing will pigeonhole you faster. 
Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about i... 
You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care. 
I like sitting and writing with my buddies. 
My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is g... 
How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's... 
Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's... 
I have feelings that are to the right, and I have feelings that land on the left side of the aisle. ... 
I want to work for myself, and I do work for myself. I make plenty of money working for myself. 
Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story. 
I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever. 
I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me. 
I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not ... 
I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I go... 
When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was ... 
I go to South Dakota for ceremonies when I have the time. And when you learn what the Indian peoples... 
Bad things happen sometimes. 
Creative people are more prone to depression. 
My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a m... 