Michael Rapaport
Michael Rapaport
Michael David Rapaportis an American actor, podcast host, director and comedian. He has acted in more than forty films since the early 1990s. His best known roles on television are Boston Public, Friends, The War at Home, Prison Break, and Justified...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth20 March 1970
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
beef director last seen silly subject time tribe
Listen, I'm 41 years old. I've got two kids. I've got a career. The last thing I need to be doing is having a beef with A Tribe Called Quest. It's silly and it was unnecessary. It ain't the first time that a director hasn't seen eye to eye with a subject and it ain't going to be the last time.
bumps concerned family group led precious public quest tribe
Like any family, like any group - the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, EPMD, Public Enemy - they've had bumps in the road. I just think that because A Tribe Called Quest is so precious to fans, they were concerned about unveiling some of those things.
jobs fighting trying
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.
real world able
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.
character reality
When you're playing this bad of a character, it's obviously not reality for someone who's not living that life.
play able doe
To be able to play somebody that says and does pretty much whatever he wants is great.
goal the-end-of-the-day important
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.
jobs creativity giving
Each environment is different, each job is different, and each realm of creativity that they give you is different. You try to do the best you can and put as much time into it as you can, but different jobs have different circumstances come about.
thinking race comfortable
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.
song kids wild-side
When I was a kid, my first favorite song was probably Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side.
community together tribes
A Tribe Called Quest music was so inclusive, so conscious, it brought such a community together.
sports hip-hop hips
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.
new-york actors proud
I'm identified as a New York actor, I sound like I'm from New York, and I couldn't be more proud of it.
independent thinking too-much
To make independent films, you can't think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the enormity of it.