Adam Rapp Quotes

I know from teaching that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.

I feel real confidence in working on the stage.

A lot of respect to people who do theatre, but I wouldn't make a good theatre actor is what I feel.

You might be the best Hamlet of your generation in the bathroom, but unfortunately, you have to come out and do it on stage, and it's best to do it to people who would fill the house.

I play a guy who is 40. And I am a very good actor, because I'm 41.

A ham is simply any actor who has not been successful in repressing his natural instincts.

A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.

I love actors, and I'm passionate about the creative process of acting and filmmaking.

Acting takes a degree of mutual trust and respect.

Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent.

On stage is the only place where I really know what I'm doing.

There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.

One thing I've really never had a problem with was memorizing lines. Most of the time I don't memorize the lines until we're on the set shooting the scene.

I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

I think Carrie Preston is one of the most talented actresses I've ever met in my entire life. I've seen her do a lot of other things, and she's fantastic.

If you can sell that you're the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere, then you can probably sell that you're a starship captain or a time traveler.

I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!

The truth is that to enjoy acting one must be an exhibitionist at heart, one must revel in those exposures of the emotions which would be agonizing to a shy or reserved person. All the great actors have been and are exhibitionists.

I'm most at home on the stage.

It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

For me, I love auditioning.

It's a dream to be in a company of actors.