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Michael Rapaport Quotes

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

Michael Rapaport

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: March 20, 1970

Topics

Walk Song Wild First Kid Side

My dad bought a Beatles tape when I was in fifth grade, and that was the first time I ever really - I mean I was into music, but that was the first time it really blew my mind. When I heard the 'Red Compilation,' which wasn't like a proper album, I thought, 'music was more than I had ever thought it was before.'

Music Time Red Mind Thought Mean

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'

Family World Start Royalty You Know

Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.

Settle Cherish Whatever Take May

Nostalgia is a very human trait.

Stephanie Coontz

Nostalgia Human Very Trait

What I believe in is I believe in law.

Michael T. Flynn

Law Believe I Believe I Believe In

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

Happiness Time Woman You Find Lost

When I'm interested in an aspect of someone's life, I want to ask about their experiences, their survival strategies, and what they do to keep their lives interesting.

Life Interesting Someone Survival

There's different ways of getting into character. There's what's called 'the outside,' in which is finding the physicality of the character first. To give an example, in 'Gettin' Square' - Johnny Spitieri - that's how I found that character. I knew those people that I'd seen up at Kings Cross. I knew how they sounded.

Character People Finding Kings First

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

Change Sun Moon Looks Person Up

It's hard to act in a corset. Your breath gets cut off. You're squashed.

You Hard Breath Act Cut Off

I know for myself, every now and again on HBO, they'll show some of the young comedian specials from the '80s and early '90s, and it's just fascinating to watch those comedians - some of whom are people that are world-famous, like Chris Rock or Judd Apatow - to see the jokes that people had, but also, the way everything looked.

Myself People Early Know Young Rock

I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working out there. A lot of Mexicans - the blacks and the whites and the Mexicans, all out there singing, and it was like an opera in the cotton fields, and I can still hear it in the music that I write and play today.

Work Music Today Singing I Can Play

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