“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.” IfsWantSawsMy FriendsTheaterAshamedWhat IfEmbarrassedNephewNieceMy Niece Author:Wallace Shawn
“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.” IfsLongTermNumbersMinutesAmountExtraordinary Author:Wallace Shawn
“If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.” IfsGivingRealityYoungActorsResultsAdvicePercentScriptsAuditionsScrapYoung Actors Author:Wallace Shawn
“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.” IfsWritingFirstsIdeasPlayStudyHeardStartingPlaywritingStarting To Write Author:Wallace Shawn
“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.” IfsTryingBelieveHardActingAudienceBuildingTruthfulDean 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.” PeopleIfsWorldBelieveMotherHumanityInspiringCrimeCommitAround The WorldSincerelyMothers Day 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.” IfsGivingYearsEndsEffortPrinciplesMoralityDemandMy FriendsRelationRegardBehaveCoincidenceMiraculousPeasantsCambodia Book:Aunt Dan and Lemon: A Play Source: Aunt Dan and Lemon: A Play
“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.” IfsThinkingWholeAbilityMaking ChangesPrinceton Author:Wallace Shawn
