I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it. — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes. — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
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… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
“I don't know about you, but I only have one life, and I don't want to spend it in a sewer of… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors. — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I know that I am one and I've made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that. — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
“She knows very well that the way to find happiness in this world is not to hate your life but to somehow… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I think I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention.… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. The way… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
“Revenge and punishment both imply, “Even if I’d been you, and I’d had your life, I would never have done what you… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share
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… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share
From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor. After I… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share
I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write. — Wallace Shawn Copy Share
My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share
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. — Wallace Shawn Copy Share
I am recognized a lot for 'Clueless,' but I am recognized a great deal for 'The Princess Bride.' I don't know... maybe everybody who… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share
I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share
And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share
I think I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. It's not… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share
I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. The way I write… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share
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… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share
When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share
