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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.
Wallace Shawn
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Wallace Shawn
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 12
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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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I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.
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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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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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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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I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.
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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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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 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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My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
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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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