“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.” PeopleThinkingShouldLooksPersonsViewsDetermined Author:Wallace Shawn
“Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?” FeelsPersonsCountryEmotionLove YouOughtLove Someone Book:Essays Source: Essays
“For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.” PeopleKnowsPersonsI CanHardReasonSeemsWould BeHarderFind Me Author:Wallace Shawn
“"The Fever" is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.” PersonsPlayCharacterCertainDecidedTheaterFever Author:Wallace Shawn
“You're always fighting the contradiction between the supposed intimacy of a two-person conversation and the blunt reality that you're trying to sell the play to people who are sitting maybe too far away from you.” PeopleTryingPersonsTwoPlayRealityFightingConversationSittingSellsIntimacyContradictionFar AwayAway From YouBluntAlways Fighting Author:Wallace Shawn
“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.” ThinkingWritingYearsPersonsPlayOpinionParticularMonthsHigherAverageMoodRelevantAverage PersonGood Mood Author:Wallace Shawn
“Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.” PersonsRealActingBoringReal LifeBoring Person Author:Wallace Shawn
“In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.” ThinkingMenPersonsRealCharacterActorsReal LifeCharacter Actors Author:Wallace Shawn
