Wallace Shawn Quotes

If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script... The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.

Wallace Shawn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I left the Democratic Party basically on issues of national security during the end of the Vietnam War.

Jim Webb

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I don't cry about anything.

Max Holloway

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The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

Jeff Buckley

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My big mission in life is to get guys out of those big, baggy board shorts down to their knees. It always looks like they're trying to hide something, like skinny legs.

Michael Bastian

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Clearly I'm really attracted to parts where there's a dark, sinister feel about them!

Sophie Turner

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You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.

Sid Vicious

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Define what your brand stands for, its core values and tone of voice, and then communicate consistently in those terms.

Simon Mainwaring

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I hate being thought of as a product.

Miley Cyrus

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I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.

Diana Ross

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Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.

Arthur M. Schlesinger

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A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

William J. Clinton

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The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated.

Peter DeFazio

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