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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.
Wallace Shawn
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Wallace Shawn
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 12
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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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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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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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I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most other individuals, I send out little signals I tell everyone else how everything looks from where I am.
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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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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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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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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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I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.
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When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
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I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.
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Who says one instance of writing has anything in common with another instance?
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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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