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I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.

Wallace Shawn

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Wallace Shawn
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 12
Actor
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Character Actor
Film Actor
Playwright
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Voice Actor
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New York City
New York
Wallace Michael Shawn
Wally Shawn
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I know that I am one and I've made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when I'm not actually doing it, I forget that I do it.
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You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.
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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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Escape before it’s too late.
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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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I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.
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My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
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If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.
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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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The life of an actor can be very enviable.
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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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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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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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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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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 do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.
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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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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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As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.
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