Top 60 Wallace Shawn Quotes (2024 Update)
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Wallace Shawn Quote: “I don’t see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.”

51. “I don’t see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.”

— Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn Quote: “My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.”

52. “My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.”

— Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn Quote: “I think I’m trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. It’s not the way people talk in life at all.”

53. “I think I’m trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. It’s not the way people talk in life at all.”

— Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn Quote: “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?”

54. “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?”

— Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn Quote: “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.”

55. “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.”

— Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn Quote: “From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor. After I played one part, others came along.”

56. “From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor. After I played one part, others came along.”

— Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn Quote: “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.”

57. “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.”

— Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn Quote: “The life of an actor can be very enviable.”

58. “The life of an actor can be very enviable.”

— Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn Quote: “As writers, we can’t predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.”

59. “As writers, we can’t predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.”

— Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn Quote: “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.”

60. “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.”

— Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn Quote: “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.”

61. “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.”

— Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn Quote: “I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.”

62. “I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.”

— Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn Quote: “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.”

63. “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.”

— Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn Quote: “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.”

64. “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.”

— Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn Quote: “My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a playwright. It’s quite embarrassing, it’s quite unpleasant, it’s quite awkward.”

65. “My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a playwright. It’s quite embarrassing, it’s quite unpleasant, it’s quite awkward.”

— Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn Quote: “I have been vain since birth.”

66. “I have been vain since birth.”

— Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn Quote: “Religion can mean solace and serenity, a kind of security, a private small garden of kindness in a desert of cruelty that seems to stretch out as far as they can see.”

67. “Religion can mean solace and serenity, a kind of security, a private small garden of kindness in a desert of cruelty that seems to stretch out as far as they can see.”

— Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn Quote: “We can’t be direct, so we end up saying the weirdest things.”

68. “We can’t be direct, so we end up saying the weirdest things.”

— Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn Quote: “Actually, we shot it over two days and the ghost of Danny DeVito was devastatingly present the whole time.”

69. “Actually, we shot it over two days and the ghost of Danny DeVito was devastatingly present the whole time.”

— Wallace Shawn

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