Anthony Rapp Quotes

“Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature.”

— Anthony Rapp

“Labels are for cans, not people.”

— Anthony Rapp

“There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.”

— Anthony Rapp

“On the flight over to Chicago, I thought of a story Mom had once told me from her days as a pediatric nurse.
"There was this little boy I was taking care of," she said "and he was terminally ill,and we all knew it,but he kept hanging on and hanging on. He wouldn't die, it was so sad.
And his parents were always there with him,giving him so much love and support,but he was in so much pain,and it really was,time for him to go.
So finally some of us nurses took his father aside and we told him, 'You have to tell your son it's okay for him to go. You have to give him permission.' And so the father took his son in his arms and he sat with him in a chair and held on to him and told him over and over, that it was okay for him to go,and,well,after a few moments,his son died.”

— Anthony Rapp

“It was my kind of song: fast and fun and exuberant,the lyrics tumbling out almost faster than my ears could follow them,some times rhyming,sometimes not ...”

— Anthony Rapp

Everyone tells us you really don't know what you're capable of till you're in the middle of it.

— Anthony Rapp

“In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there's also this thorniness, these edges that come out.”

— Anthony Rapp

“Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core.”

— Anthony Rapp

“I wanted really to make it moment to moment, partly because I'm an actor and that's how I operate - actors are all about creating the moment.”

— Anthony Rapp

“Anyone who loses a parent, you have to find those parts of yourself that your parent held true in themselves, especially if they're supportive parents.”

— Anthony Rapp

“Frankly, if people aren't going to cast me because I'm queer, than I don't want to work with them.”

— Anthony Rapp