Wallace Shawn Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)
Wallace Shawn quotes and sayings page 5 (81 year old actor). Here's quote # 41 through 50 out of the 64 we have for him.
“In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.”
“My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.”
“The life of an actor can be very enviable.”
“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.”
“You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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!”
“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.”
“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.”
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