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Wallace Shawn Quotes
«I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.»
Author: Wallace Shawn
«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.»
Author: Wallace Shawn
«If my relation to each and every peasant in Cambodia is indeed exactly what the principles of morality would demand it to be, it's a miraculous coincidence, because it takes a lot of effort to behave correctly in regard to my friends, and from one end of the year to another I never give those peasants a single thought.»
Author: Wallace Shawn
«I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.»
Author: Wallace Shawn
«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.»
Author: Wallace Shawn
«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.»
Author: Wallace Shawn
«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.»
Author: Wallace Shawn
«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.»
Author: Wallace Shawn
«Anyone who might not like us or what we do would find this tale of our childhood nauseating.»
Author: Wallace Shawn