Michael Rapaport Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

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

  Michael Rapaport

  Listening, Today, Honestly

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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

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• 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

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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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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• Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.

  Michael Rapaport

  Hip Hop, Taking A Break, Documentaries

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• 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 says, 'Why?' You say, 'Well, you got three hours? And then maybe after I tell you my version, you've got to talk to her.

  Michael Rapaport

  Girlfriend, Three, Reason Why

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• 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.

  Michael Rapaport

  New York, Sound, Actors

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• 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 was evolving. I think there's an emotional quality to their music and there's a vulnerability to the music. For me, A Tribe Called Quest was my Beatles.

  Michael Rapaport

  Song, Brother, Emotional

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• When I was a kid, my first favorite song was probably Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side."

  Michael Rapaport

  Song, Kids, Wild Side

  "Michael Rapaport’s Vision Quest". Interview with Steven Prigge, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 24, 2011.

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• 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

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• 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 30 years. Seeing people like Eminem sounding like somebody like Jay-Z and just the racial aspects of it all.

  Michael Rapaport

  Years, People, Hip Hop

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 7, 2011.

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