Michael Rapaport Quotes

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• Only a genius can play a fool.

  Michael Rapaport

  Play, Genius, Fool

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

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• A beautiful girl can make you dizzy, like you've been drinking Jack and Coke all morning. She can make you feel high full of the single greatest commodity known to man - promise. Promise of a better day. Promise of a greater hope. Promise of a new tomorrow. This particular aura can be found in the gait of a beautiful girl. In her smile, in her soul, the way she makes every rotten little thing about life seem like it's going to be okay.

  Michael Rapaport

  Beautiful, Girl, Morning

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• The thing about New York is you can leave your house without a plan and find the day. You can't do that in Los Angeles. You need to get in your car, all this, you can't just drive around like a lunatic. In New York, you can literally walk outside, and wind up anywhere.

  Michael Rapaport

  New York, Wind, Car

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• I had a boom box, but I didn't go too far with it because I had a really, really big one. It was like the size of a suitcase, and I was just a little kid.

  Michael Rapaport

  Kids, Littles, Suitcases

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

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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• I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music.

  Michael Rapaport

  Song, New York, Cities

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

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• 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

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• 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

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• A Tribe Called Quest music was so inclusive, so conscious, it brought such a community together.

  Michael Rapaport

  Community, Together, Quests

  "Actor-director Michael Rapaport". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 7, 2011.

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• 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

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• 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

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• I love my kids, and the moments I have with them, and it's kind of weird, it's such an age old cliche, but the way that my sons, the way they make me feel when I look at them, the way they say things, no one else would probably react to them, but it's a special thing for me.

  Michael Rapaport

  Kids, Son, Special

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• I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it.

  Michael Rapaport

  Thinking, Documentary Films, Documentaries

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!' It's the same mentality in sports.

  Michael Rapaport

  Sports, Hip Hop, Hips

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