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Wallace Shawn Biography

Wallace Michael Shawn (born November 12, 1943) is an American actor, voice actor, comedian, playwright and essayist. His film roles have included those of Wally Shawn in the Louis Malle directed comedy-drama My Dinner with Andre (1981), Vizzini in The Princess Bride (1987), Mr. Wendell Hall in Clueless (1995) and providing the voice of Rex in the Toy Story franchise. He has also appeared in a variety of television series, including recurring roles as Grand Nagus Zek in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999) and Cyrus Rose in Gossip Girl (2008–2012).

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I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls.

Beautiful, Man, Men, People, Souls

All of my plays have puzzled some people, and I'm happy to say delighted a few, but a lot of people have just not seen how quite to look at them. And this film. . . if you like my writing, you'll like this film. If you don't, you won't like the film. It's pretty faithful to - it's a pretty uncompromising presentation of my way of seeing things, I suppose.

Delighted, Faithful, People, Writing

For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.

People, Quite, Reason, Would Be

It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not superior

Characteristics, Feels, Human, Like, Obviously, Problem

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

Appetite, Enormous, Eye, Eyes, Life, Presented

I love going to plays. There's a subconscious side to it, obviously-some people like to be spanked for XYZ psychological reasons, and I like to go to plays, and I can't entirely explain why.

Like, People, Play, Psychological, Sides, Spanked

I was clever enough to know that John Donne was offering something that was awfully enjoyable. I just wasn't clever enough to actually enjoy it.

Clever, Enjoy, Enough, Know, Offering

We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows that hidden inside himself there's a wizard and a king, he also knows that when he's playing himself in his daily life, he's playing a part, he's performing, just as he's performing when he plays a part on stage.

Actors, Kings, Life, Performing, Play, Stage

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

Television

I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.

Free, Sometimes, Talking, Time, Write, Writing

You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.

Accomplish, Havens, Know, Schedule, Schedules

Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!

Bedtime, Insomnia, Poor, Sleep, Substitute

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.

Awkward, Escape, Human, People, Style, Unpleasant

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.

Heard, Ideas, Literally, Play, Write, Writing

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.

Actor, Advice, Audition, Give, Giving, Reality

If my relation to each and every peasant in Cambodia is indeed exactly what the principles of morality would demand it to be, it's a miraculous coincidence, because it takes a lot of effort to behave correctly in regard to my friends, and from one end of the year to another I never give those peasants a single thought.

Cambodia, Effort, Giving, Peasant, Single, Years

I am recognized a lot for Clueless, but I am recognized a great deal for The Princess Bride. I dont know. . . maybe everybody who has seen that movie just goes out on the street.

Brides, Clueless, Maybe, Princess, Recognized, Street

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.

Believe, Crimes, Humanity, Inspiring, Mothers Day

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.

Carry, Musical, Performed, Singing, Thinking, Wagner

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

Acting, Boring, Life, Real

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