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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.

  Wallace Shawn

  Thinking, Play, One Day

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

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• I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.

  Wallace Shawn

  Thinking, Buying, Laundry

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

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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.

  Wallace Shawn

  Early 20s

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

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• I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.

  Wallace Shawn

  People, Laughing, Supposed To Be

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

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• I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.

  Wallace Shawn

  Thinking, Views, People

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

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• I grew up in a very polite family, and I suppose my parents were both very polite, and from the time I was a young boy, I suspected that there were passions seething underneath and not being mentioned, and that was something that came to preoccupy me. Somehow I had some drive to write down what people might really be thinking.

  Wallace Shawn

  Passion, Writing, Boys

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.

  Wallace Shawn

  Giving, Given, Certain

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Wallace Shawn

  Thinking, Musical, Singing

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

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• 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 the way people talk in life at all.

  Wallace Shawn

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 1, 2009.

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• I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.

  Wallace Shawn

  Thinking, Making Changes, Princeton

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

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• My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.

  Wallace Shawn

  Baby, Father, Thinking

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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.

  Wallace Shawn

  Views, Years, Evening

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing. I feel the actors are being put through a kind of nightmarish labor. They're like animals being forced to pull heavy carts of vegetables at incredible speeds.

  Wallace Shawn

  Animal, Vegetables, Play

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• I don't have a television, and I'm just not too up on television.

  Wallace Shawn

  Television

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

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• I have been vain since birth.

  Wallace Shawn

  Birth, Vain, Has Beens

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

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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.

  Wallace Shawn

  Children, Team, Roots

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

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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.

  Wallace Shawn

  Real, Character, Men

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

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• I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.

  Wallace Shawn

  Writing, Thinking, Average

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

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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.

  Wallace Shawn

  Character, Sense Of Humor, Happens

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

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• Escape before it’s too late.

  Wallace Shawn

  Too Late, Before It's Too Late, Late

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• 'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I'll ever top it.

  Wallace Shawn

  Princess, Thinking, Done

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• I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are.

  Wallace Shawn

  Writing, Views, Years

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

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• Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea for a visiting friend, can convincingly portray an elegant, cruel aristocrat tossing off malicious epigrams in an eighteenth-century chocolate house.

  Wallace Shawn

  Hands, House, Awkward

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

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• 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?'

  Wallace Shawn

  Opportunity, Self, Play

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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.

  Wallace Shawn

  Dream, Jobs, Lying

  Wallace Shawn (2009). “Essays”, p.5, Haymarket Books

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