(About auditioning for Fame and Fortune) "You have to think you'll be
one of the ones who makes it." (From Education Weekly, January 26,
1983--when he was a student of drama at the New York High School for
the Performing Arts.)
"I can play really terrible human beings, and I seem to have a quality
that people can, if not necessarily forgive me those sins, at least cut
me some slack." (US, April 1997)
"I feel blessed that I am able to play really dark guys in a business
where they usually want you to play the same character over and over.
Poor Michael Rapaport will being playing white homeboys till the day he dies.
That's not the kind of career I want." (Calgary Sun, January 4,
2004)