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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.

Wallace Shawn

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Wallace Shawn
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 12
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Television Actor
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New York City
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Wallace Michael Shawn
Wally Shawn
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I don't have a television, and I'm just not too up on television.
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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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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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I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.
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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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'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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My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the office, I lie down, dream, and become 'someone else.' That's my job.
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Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!
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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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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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Who says one instance of writing has anything in common with another instance?
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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 have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
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We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows that hidden inside himself there's a wizard and a king, he also knows that when he's playing himself in his daily life, he's playing a part, he's performing, just as he's performing when he plays a part on stage.
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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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I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea for a visiting friend, can convincingly portray an elegant, cruel aristocrat tossing off malicious epigrams in an eighteenth-century chocolate house.
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I was clever enough to know that John Donne was offering something that was awfully enjoyable. I just wasn't clever enough to actually enjoy it.
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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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