Latest Michael Rapaport Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm always gonna be an actor, so I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do next. I would love to make a documentary again someday, but I need to take a break from it.

  Michael Rapaport

  Trying, Someday, Break

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• Honestly, I'm not listening to much of what's going on today.

  Michael Rapaport

  Listening, Today, Honestly

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• Being a good rapper is hard to do. I'm a good Rapaport, but that's about it.

  Michael Rapaport

  Rapper

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• Were there certain things that I didn't feel were dignified enough to make it into the movie? Yeah.

  Michael Rapaport

  Enough

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• Being a part of independent-film world, the independent-film community, that's what you do. You support each other. If someone's doing a movie and you trust them, you roll the dice. Sometimes it's gonna be good, sometimes it's gonna be something that's like, "Oh I don't know what the hell that is." But I've been more fortunate than not to have it work well.

  Michael Rapaport

  Support, Community, World

  Source: film.avclub.com

• If my son was an actor I would tell him, "Don't let people know as much about you as I let people know about me." Because I think professionally, it's an easier road. That would be something I would tell a young actor. But it's cool.

  Michael Rapaport

  Son, Thinking, People

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I see these other actors come up with this tough-guy personas and now when they're on talk shows they're all... But that's not really the way they are. I probably could have used a little bit of that. At one point I was labeled "The King Of Dumb White Guys." I was offended by that when I was younger, but I understand what that's from, so I was like, "Only a genius can play a fool." But I'm very aware of that, and I'll play into it and use it however I need to use it.

  Michael Rapaport

  Guy, Dumb, Genius

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I'm a New York person. I've never gone out of the way to speak to the press to change my persona - I probably should have. It's too late now. But when I first started I was like, "I'm gonna stay this way. I'm gonna be this way," and I continued to. I probably should have sugarcoated it like, "This is not really the way I am - I'm an actor."

  Michael Rapaport

  Speak, Persona

  Source: film.avclub.com

• Call it stubborn, call it ignorant, call it what you want, but I don't think I have to join a particular faith or culture or creed or religion just to fit in.

  Michael Rapaport

  Thinking, Ignorant, Culture

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• Sometimes you know about a job four months in advance. Sometimes you know about a job four days in advance. It's all different, and my thing is just to try to stay prepared. It's like being a boxer. You never know when you're going to get your next fight, so you have to just stay in shape, mentally and physically and creatively.

  Michael Rapaport

  Jobs, Fighting, Trying

  Source: collider.com

• Each environment is different, each job is different, and each realm of creativity that they give you is different. You try to do the best you can and put as much time into it as you can, but different jobs have different circumstances come about.

  Michael Rapaport

  Jobs, Creativity, Giving

  Source: collider.com

• To be able to play somebody that says and does pretty much whatever he wants is great.

  Michael Rapaport

  Play, Doe, Want

  Source: collider.com

• At the end of the day, my sole goal, when I go into any scene, is to try to be as honest as I possibly can, and then everything else is second. The most important thing for me is to just be as honest as I possibly can.

  Michael Rapaport

  Goal, The End Of The Day, Important

  Source: collider.com

• My favorite part is just being able to say and do things that you can't do in real life, and behaving in a way that's just not really acceptable, in the real world.

  Michael Rapaport

  Real, World, Able

  Source: collider.com

• When you're playing this bad of a character, it's obviously not reality for someone who's not living that life.

  Michael Rapaport

  Character, Reality

  Source: collider.com

• My freestyling ability is nonexistent. I can't even write a verse if I tried to sit anywhere and write one. Being a good rapper is hard to do. I'm a good Rapaport, but that's about it.

  Michael Rapaport

  Writing, Rapper, Ability

  "Actor Michael Rapaport’s Rap Quest". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. July 01, 2011.

• Socially, hip-hop has done more for racial camaraderie in this country than any one thing. 'Cause guys like me, my kids - everyone under 45 either grew up loving hip-hop or hating hip-hop, but everyone under 45 grew up very aware of hip-hop. So when you're a white kid and you're listening to this music and you're being exposed to it every day on MTV, black people become less frightening. This is just a reality. What hip-hop has done bringing people together is enormous.

  Michael Rapaport

  Country, Hate, Kids

  "Actor Michael Rapaport’s Rap Quest". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. July 01, 2011.

• 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.

  Michael Rapaport

  Mean, Way, Honest

  "Actor Michael Rapaport’s Rap Quest". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. July 1, 2011.

• I'm not going to try and change how people perceive me. I think it's important to be a contradiction. People are contradictions; everyone has contradictions. So I don't expect anyone to look at me differently.

  Michael Rapaport

  Thinking, People, Important

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I don't want to misrepresent who I am personally. I don't want my kids to see me on a talk show and say, "You're talking different" or "You look different, dad." I'm not gonna be an animal; I know how to conduct myself.

  Michael Rapaport

  Dad, Kids, Animal

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I love doing things that are titillating. I think race can be very funny, and I think I'm very comfortable discussing it and bringing it up.

  Michael Rapaport

  Thinking, Race, Discussing

  Source: www.avclub.com