“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.” YearsHardEnoughSeemsViewsPlansEveningBehave Author:Wallace Shawn
“After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.” ThinkingDoneSeemsWould BeJobsActingGoes OnShopsCopiesClerksShipping Author:Wallace Shawn
“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
“We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows that hidden inside himself there's a wizard and a king, he also knows that when he's playing himself in his daily life, he's playing a part, he's performing, just as he's performing when he plays a part on stage.” KnowsPlaySeemsActorsStageKingsPerformingDaily LifeWizards Author:Wallace Shawn
“I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.” WayLooksStillsSeemsJokesMirrorsAppearance Author:Wallace Shawn
