I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over… — 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
You're always fighting the contradiction between the supposed intimacy of a two-person conversation and the blunt reality that you're trying to sell… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
In my mind, the plays I was writing were extreme examples of art for art's sake. I didn't necessarily think that other… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or portraying what he knows about other people.… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very polite family, and I suppose my parents were both very polite, and from the time I… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings.… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
All of my plays have puzzled some people, and I'm happy to say delighted a few, but a lot of people have… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
A play presents a self-enclosed little world for the audience to examine. It's an opportunity to look objectively at a group of… — 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
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
I love going to plays. There's a subconscious side to it, obviously-some people like to be spanked for XYZ psychological reasons, and… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own… — 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
