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)

(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)