130 Quotes by Wallace Shawn

I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.

I know that I am one and I've made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when I'm not actually doing it, I forget that I do it.

I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.

I don't have a television, and I'm just not too up on television.

I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.

I have been vain since birth.

As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.

And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.

Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.