Wallace Shawn Quotes

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?'

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.

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.

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.

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.

In An Amusement Park, You Can Go On A Roller Coaster That Carries You Up And Down, Or You Can Go On Another Kind Of Ride That Whirls You Around In A Circle. Similarly, There Are Different Sorts Of Entertaining Experiences In The Theater.

I Choose Parts Because I Don't Want To Be Embarrassed When The Movie Comes Out. What If My Friends Were To See The Movie? What If My Niece Or Nephew Wandered Into The Theater And Saw The Movie? I Don't Want To Be Too Ashamed Of It.

I Am Recognized A Lot For Clueless, But I Am Recognized A Great Deal For The Princess Bride. I Dont Know... Maybe Everybody Who Has Seen That Movie Just Goes Out On The Street.

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.

'the Princess Bride' Is By Far The Most Popular Film I've Ever Done. I Don't Think I'll Ever Top It.

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.

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.