Michael Rapaport Quotes

It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society.

The more you adapt, the more interesting you are.

I like many different things you know so I'm probably going to experiment, and if I didn't I'd be a little bit strange and boring and stiff and kind of dead, and I'm very not that.

Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.

I just like to do different parts.

You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.

I've never been very good at fitting into boxes.

My style is that I have no style.

One size doesn't fit all, and I don't have a monopoly over good ideas.

My personality is I enjoy constant change and mixing it up.

I get attracted to different things. I have a different take on everything. I like to do different things. I don't like the regular stuff.

I don't want to be anyone but me, but as a versatile as possible.

For me, my style is very versatile.

I never do the same thing twice.

The idea is to resist being typecast. I like doing different things.

I've figured out how to turn what's different about me and limitations - I'm new to this world, I'm a woman, I don't have a math background - and how I use that to my advantage. They're what make me unique. In poker you learn very quickly, if you play like everyone else, you'll be fine, but you'll never be great.

I like being a chameleon and doing things that are just so different that people will be like, 'Oh, that's him?'

I have no style, because I change each time . . . each day I play differently. Today I play differently than yesterday.

In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.

Life on earth is a whole, yet it expresses itself in unique time-bound bodies, microscopic or visible, plant or animal, extinct or living. So there can be no one place to be. There can be no one way to be, no one way to practice, no one way to learn, no one way to love, no one way to grow or to heal, no one way to live, no one way to feel, no one thing to know or be known. The particulars count.

I think people have had too much to think and ought to flex their magic muscles. It takes awhile to get oriented to what I do, but people seem to be able to hear it if they give it a chance. I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

Whatever you do with your life-whatever you end up achieving or not achieving-the great gift you have in you to give to the world is the gift of who you alone are; your way of seeing things, and saying things, and feeling about things, that is like nobody else’s. If so much as a single one of you were missing, there would be an empty place at the great feast of life that nobody else in all creation could fill.

Being different is a talent. You illuminate what makes you special in the sea of sameness around you.

Just as a blues player can play 20 blues songs in a row but find a way to make each one different, ... I always want to find different ways to do something

People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.