Wallace Shawn Quotes

You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play that's enjoyable because it's 'disturbing.'

Wallace Shawn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 12, 1943

Topics

FunnyNightYouPlayGoNext

I'm sick of seeing my face on television.

Andrew Breitbart

SickFaceSeeingTelevision

In terms of the characters I think are really fun to play, a lot of times it's someone in my head saying 'I know that woman.'

Melissa McCarthy

WomanFunSayingThinkSomeonePlay

I will cut all state taxes by at least one third.

Sonny Landham

WillTaxesCutStateThirdLeast

Hollywood's great, but wrestling is my first love.

Triple H

LoveGreatHollywoodWrestlingFirst

If I'm going to be honest with you, when I trained at school, I feel like I was training to be a chameleon. I want to be that versatile actor who can do anything - that's why you learn fifty different dialects, you do Shakespeare, you do commedia, you do it all so that if any job comes your way, you should be able to do it.

Rutina Wesley

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In Jaipur, I did almost everything from regional theatre to Shakespeare's plays. But when I shifted to Mumbai, I joined Anupam Kher's academy, Actor Prepares,to hone my acting skills.

Ashish Sharma

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Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

William S. Burroughs

PleasureReliefOnlyPerhaps

It is always easier to have somebody to blame, but immigrants are not the cause of the country's economic woes.

Pramila Jayapal

BlameImmigrantsCountryAlwaysWoes

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

Shawn Ashmore

MotherBrotherMeGrowing UpGrowing

You must give to get, You must sow the seed, before you can reap the harvest.

Scott Reed

SeedYouHarvestReapGiveGet

When I did 'Jump Street', I created that character; it was all me. I walked in and was just me. I could get out of bed and walk on set and be dressed.

Richard Grieco

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To me, it's mind-boggling to think that homosexuality was forbidden up until 1967.

Morten Tyldum

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