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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
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 12
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New York City
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Wallace Michael Shawn
Wally Shawn
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A play presents a self-enclosed little world for the audience to examine. It's an opportunity to look objectively at a group of people, to assess them, to react to them, and to measure oneself against them, to ask 'Am I like that?'
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I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.
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Escape before it’s too late.
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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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I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.
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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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As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.
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I don't have a television, and I'm just not too up on television.
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There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.
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I grew up in a very polite family, and I suppose my parents were both very polite, and from the time I was a young boy, I suspected that there were passions seething underneath and not being mentioned, and that was something that came to preoccupy me. Somehow I had some drive to write down what people might really be thinking.
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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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'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I'll ever top 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 love going to plays. There's a subconscious side to it, obviously-some people like to be spanked for XYZ psychological reasons, and I like to go to plays, and I can't entirely explain why.
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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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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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I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.
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I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.
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I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.
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I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.
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