Wallace Shawn Quotes
Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or portraying what he knows about other people. On the contrary, the actor may simply be a person who's more willing than others to reveal some truths about himself.
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.
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Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.
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It takes thousands of them to create an archive of human wisdom; only one to set a torch to it. Wouldn’t you have to say, then, that the work of the librarians is more typical of mortal behavior than the work of the arsonist?
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When I was a kid I did impressions and funny voices a lot. When I was telling a story I would use the voices to make it more entertaining.
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East and West, most societies have come to believe that competition will produce more prosperity for more people than a planned economy. I share that belief.
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Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or portraying what he knows about other people. On the contrary, the actor may simply be a person who's more willing than others to reveal some truths about himself.
