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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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Wallace Shawn
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 12
Actor
Author
Character Actor
Film Actor
Playwright
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Writer
New York City
New York
Wallace Michael Shawn
Wally Shawn
Free
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Write
Sometimes
Writing
Time
Individuals
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Talking

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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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As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.
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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 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 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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It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.
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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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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.
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I have been vain since birth.
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If my relation to each and every peasant in Cambodia is indeed exactly what the principles of morality would demand it to be, it's a miraculous coincidence, because it takes a lot of effort to behave correctly in regard to my friends, and from one end of the year to another I never give those peasants a single thought.
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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.
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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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My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
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You're always fighting the contradiction between the supposed intimacy of a two-person conversation and the blunt reality that you're trying to sell the play to people who are sitting maybe too far away from you.
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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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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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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.
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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 don't have a television, and I'm just not too up on television.
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