Because Quote by Wallace Shawn

“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.”

Wallace Shawn

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Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the…

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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.

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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…

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Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!

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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…

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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…

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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…

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