Appearance Quote by Wallace Shawn

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

— Wallace Shawn

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

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

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

I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.

— Wallace Shawn

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

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

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

Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!

— Wallace Shawn

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

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

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