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Wallace Shawn Inspirational Quotes (71)

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I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.
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We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.
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My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a playwright. It's quite embarrassing, it's quite unpleasant, it's quite awkward.
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In an amusement park, you can go on a roller coaster that carries you up and down, or you can go on another kind of ride that whirls you around in a circle. Similarly, there are different sorts of entertaining experiences in the theater.
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I am recognized a lot for Clueless, but I am recognized a great deal for The Princess Bride. I dont know... maybe everybody who has seen that movie just goes out on the street.
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I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing. I feel the actors are being put through a kind of nightmarish labor. They're like animals being forced to pull heavy carts of vegetables at incredible speeds.
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It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not superior
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Escape before it’s too late.
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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.
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Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!
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In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.
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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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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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I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.
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I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
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I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
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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.
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The life of an actor can be very enviable.
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The Fever is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.
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I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.
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I don't have a television, and I'm just not too up on television.
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The actor's role in the community is quite unlike anyone else's. Businessmen, for example, don't take their clothes off or cry in front of strangers in the course of their work. Actors do.
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As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.
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Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.
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