Wallace Shawn Quotes

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.
Wallace Shawn

Said, Team, Child

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

Life, Real, Person

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.
Wallace Shawn

Hard, Trying, Acting

After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.
Wallace Shawn

Life, Done, After

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.
Wallace Shawn

Once, Singing, Sing

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

Find, Might, Along

Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
Wallace Shawn

Time, Job, Career

But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.
Wallace Shawn

Hope, Experience, Someone

Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.
Wallace Shawn

Children, Worked, Films

Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or portraying what he knows about other people. On the contrary, the actor may simply be a person who's more willing than others to reveal some truths about himself.
Wallace Shawn

Person, May, Others

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

Wife, Hard, Find

For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.
Wallace Shawn

Time, Writing, Thinking

For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.
Wallace Shawn

Funny, Hard, Person

From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor. After I played one part, others came along.
Wallace Shawn

Job, Giving, Thought

I am recognized a lot for 'Clueless,' but I am recognized a great deal for 'The Princess Bride.' I don't know... maybe everybody who has seen that movie just goes out on the street.
Wallace Shawn

Great, Everybody, Movie

I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.
Wallace Shawn

Friends, Movie, Choose

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

Laugh, Why, Joke

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.
Wallace Shawn

Life, Funny, Humor

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

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

Pleasing, Rarely, Musicals

I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.
Wallace Shawn

Help, Problems, United

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

Life, Eyes, Front

I have been vain since birth.
Wallace Shawn

Since, Birth, Vain

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

Since, Vanity, Birth

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

Time, Free, Sometimes

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: November 12, 1943

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