Wallace Shawn Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• 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.

  Wallace Shawn

  Believe, Trying, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Wallace Shawn

  Real, Acting, Boring

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  Wallace Shawn

  Jobs, Thinking, Clerks

  "Wallace Shawn juggles acting jobs and play writing". Interview with Dany Margolies, www.reuters.com. February 1, 2011.

• I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.

  Wallace Shawn

  New York, Writing, Play

  "Wallace Shawn juggles acting jobs and play writing". Interview with Dany Margolies, www.reuters.com. February 1, 2011.

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