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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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Wallace Shawn
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 12
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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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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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 grew up in a very polite family, and I suppose my parents were both very polite, and from the time I was a young boy, I suspected that there were passions seething underneath and not being mentioned, and that was something that came to preoccupy me. Somehow I had some drive to write down what people might really be thinking.
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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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