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Wallace Shawn

Acting is trying to be absolut...

Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.

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Wallace Shawn

I don't happen to have a sense...

I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.

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Wallace Shawn

I probably have a higher opini...

I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.

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Wallace Shawn

I see myself as a citizen of t...

I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.

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Wallace Shawn

Acting is an escape from the b...

Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.

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Wallace Shawn

And my singing, I don't think ...

And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.

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Wallace Shawn

As writers, we can't predict w...

As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.

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Wallace Shawn

Even with my wife, I find shar...

Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

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Wallace Shawn

I do things, and other people ...

I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.

Wallace Shawn 83 quotes
Wallace Shawn

I don't have a television, and...

I don't have a television, and I'm just not too up on television.

Wallace Shawn 83 quotes
Wallace Shawn

I don't see that many plays, a...

I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.

Wallace Shawn 83 quotes
Wallace Shawn

I have an enormous appetite to...

I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.

Wallace Shawn 83 quotes
Wallace Shawn

I have been vain since birth. ...

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

Wallace Shawn 83 quotes
Wallace Shawn

I have more free time than a l...

I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.

Wallace Shawn 83 quotes
Wallace Shawn

I know that I am one and I've ...

I know that I am one and I've made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when I'm not actually doing it, I forget that I do it.

Wallace Shawn 83 quotes
Wallace Shawn

I never grew up thinking, 'One...

I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.

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Wallace Shawn

I never planned to be an actor...

I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.

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Wallace Shawn

I spend most of my time thinki...

I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.

Wallace Shawn 83 quotes
Wallace Shawn

I'm a very lucky man. It's a b...

I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls.

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Wallace Shawn

In my early 20s, I studied his...

In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.

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