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I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies. (Wallace Shawn)
'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I'll ever top it. View quote
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I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all. View quote
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In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors. View quote
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I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years. View quote
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For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence. View quote
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I don't have a television, and I'm just not too up on television. View quote
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I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs. View quote
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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 it even if I had heard of it. View quote
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I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant. View quote
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I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it. (Wallace Shawn)
When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films. View quote
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I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing. View quote
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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 are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset. View quote
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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 strangers in the course of their work. Actors do. View quote
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard. View quote
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We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality. View quote
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I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most other individuals, I send out little signals; I tell everyone else how everything looks from where I am. View quote
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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 their souls. View quote
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Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's? View quote
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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. (Wallace Shawn)
For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it. View quote
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I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit. View quote
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You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more. View quote
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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 once, but it was never performed. View quote
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