I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing. I feel the actors are … - Wallace Shawn

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Wallace Shawn

I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing. I feel the actors are being put through a kind of nightmarish labor. They're like animals being forced to pull heavy carts of vegetables at incredible speeds.

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For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.

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

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Who says one instance of writing has anything in common with another instance?

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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.

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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

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