Quotes by Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn

A play presents a self-enclosed little world for the audience to examine. It’s an opportunity to look objectively at a group of people, to assess them, to react to them, and to measure oneself against them, to ask ‘Am I like that?’

Opportunity

Play

Self

Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they’d probably throw you out. That’s very hard.

Acting

Believe

Trying

After being in one movie, it didn’t seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I’d been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn’t think the acting was going to go on and on.

Clerks

Jobs

Thinking

All of my plays have puzzled some people, and I’m happy to say delighted a few, but a lot of people have just not seen how quite to look at them. And this film… if you like my writing, you’ll like this film. If you don’t, you won’t like the film. It’s pretty faithful to – it’s a pretty uncompromising presentation of my way of seeing things, I suppose.

Faithful

People

Writing

As writers, we can’t predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.

Might

Offering

Valuable

Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

My Wife

Soup

Wife

From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor. After I played one part, others came along.

Giving

Jobs

Play

I am recognized a lot for Clueless, but I am recognized a great deal for The Princess Bride. I dont know… maybe everybody who has seen that movie just goes out on the street.

Brides

Clueless

Princess

I choose parts because I don’t want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don’t want to be too ashamed of it.

Nephew

Niece

What If

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 be a feature of my life generally.

Character

Happens

Sense Of Humor

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Acting

Actors

Beautiful

Bedtime

Believe

Brides

Buying

Character

Characteristics

Circles

Clerks

Clothes

Clueless

Common

Community

Country

Different

Emotion

Evening

Example

Faithful

Feels

Fighting

Forget

Giving

Goes On

Happens

Has Beens

Havens

Insomnia

Instance

Jobs

Kings

Laundry

Littles

Looks

Love You

Made

Men

Might

My Wife

Nephew

Niece

Offering

Opportunity

People

Play

Princess

Problem

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Quotes by Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn

A play presents a self-enclosed little world for the audience to examine. It’s an opportunity to look objectively at a group of people, to assess them, to react to them, and to measure oneself against them, to ask ‘Am I like that?’

Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they’d probably throw you out. That’s very hard.

After being in one movie, it didn’t seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I’d been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn’t think the acting was going to go on and on.

As writers, we can’t predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.

Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor. After I played one part, others came along.

I am recognized a lot for Clueless, but I am recognized a great deal for The Princess Bride. I dont know… maybe everybody who has seen that movie just goes out on the street.

I choose parts because I don’t want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don’t want to be too ashamed of it.

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 be a feature of my life generally.

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