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
play fool genius
Only a genius can play a fool.
country hate kids
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.
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.
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.
character reality
When you're playing this bad of a character, it's obviously not reality for someone who's not living that life.
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.
song kids wild-side
When I was a kid, my first favorite song was probably Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side.
play able doe
To be able to play somebody that says and does pretty much whatever he wants is great.
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.
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.
mean people daddy
So to compare the Beatles, obviously the Beatles are the Beatles, but in hip-hop terms, Tribe is the Beatles. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five are the Beatles. Big Daddy Kane is Jimi Hendrix. It means that much to people that grew up with it.
song brother emotional
I heard Q-Tip on the Jungle Brothers' song 'The Promo.' It was very exciting. It was very new. The music and the culture around hip-hop was evolving. I think there's an emotional quality to their music and there's a vulnerability to the music. For me, A Tribe Called Quest was my Beatles.
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 father play
The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late '70s.