Best quotes by Wallace Shawn on Life

Checkout quotes by Wallace Shawn on Life

• ‟ We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows that hidden inside himself there's a wizard and a king, he also knows that when he's playing himself in his daily life, he's playing a part, he's performing, just as he's performing when he plays a part on stage.

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• ‟ 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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• ‟ I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!

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• ‟ I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.

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• ‟ It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.

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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 office, I lie down, dream, and become 'someone else.' That's my job.

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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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• ‟ 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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• ‟ The life of an actor can be very enviable.

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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.

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

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• ‟ In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.

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