Adam Rapp Quotes

I went into performing for the community. Being backstage with your company of fellows is the best part of working in live theater. That energy, that combined focus, the synergy - it's addictive.

The reason why I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together.

Theater is exciting because it is collaborative, but it is also exhausting for the same reason.

I love the community of theater. There is something about the camaraderie: People who show up eight times a week to do a show. It's unlike any other business. It's just lovely. You feel like you're in a family.

I can't think of a better bonding experience than to be able to sit on stage and to watch your fellow performers perform on stage every night.

In the theater, you get very close with everyone, and you have to because you're with each other all the time. I respect it. It's a challenge, but it's very worth the hard work.

I love doing things on stage with other people.

There are lots of things I like about playing in a band, the things I can't do by myself you know.

I love theater. To have the people onstage right there, to be working in concert with other artists, this is a like a school of fish moving together.

A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an invaluable education. In my experience, theatre artists don't know what they've made until they've made it.

It's not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It's not heading for the punchline, and also it's not about scoring goals. It's about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves.

I love working with talented young performers.

I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my theatrical life where I didn't feel that my role was also to keep everybody else working hard.

I love the feeling of being on a team, rehearsing together, sharing a dressing room - I love that so much.

Doing theater is such a specifically energetic and almost acrobatic work.

When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed. I'm just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I'll die. But, it really is about that shared experience with people. I'm from theater, and that's really what theater feels like.

The good thing about 'SNL' is that it's the same people every week that you're working with, and we've all become so close and tight because we've worked together so long and so closely together.

Through a shared aim, shared needs, shared love of a shared result in theatre, from the creation of space... the coming-together of an endlessly repeated climax of shared performance, again and again, something special can appear.

In theatre, there is a unique feeling of everyone working as a team, which you never get in films.

The thing about acting that's unlike any other art form is that it's collaborative; directing and acting are a collaboration, and your acting won't succeed if the lighting design doesn't succeed or sets don't succeed.

The thing I love about theater is the fact that everyone's complicit. We're either there as a storyteller, or we're there as a listener, and it's basically a campfire situation.

Theatre is such a joy because it's a group effort. Everyone has to move in tandem. It was lovely to be able to carry that over into 'Barry.'

Most of my enjoyable times in the theater have been working in a group.

I think for me, I just love that trust you have with theater and your ensemble and people you are working with.

In theatre, there is a camaraderie that makes you believe you've been working with your co-actor for a long time.