Wallace Shawn Quotes

"I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs."
- Wallace Shawn
(Related: People, Fact)

"I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it."
- Wallace Shawn
(Related: Actor, Living)

"We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality."
- Wallace Shawn
(Related: Hope, Country, Horror, states, United)

"It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me."
- Wallace Shawn
(Related: Life, Evening, Years)

"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."
- Wallace Shawn
(Related: People, Humanity, Mothers, World)

"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."
- Wallace Shawn
(Related: Time, Actors, Play, Thinking, Writing)