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Escape before it’s too late.
I have been vain since birth.
Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!
The life of an actor can be very enviable.
Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
I don't have a television, and I'm just not too up on television.
Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.
I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.
My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.
Who says one instance of writing has anything in common with another instance?
I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.
As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.
I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.
I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I'll ever top it.
I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.
In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.
I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.
In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.
I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not superior
In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.
You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.
I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.
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.
I know that I am one and I've made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when I'm not actually doing it, I forget that I do it.
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.
Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?
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.
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.'
I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.
But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.
From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor. After I played one part, others came along.
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.
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.
I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.
I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.
I think I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. It's not the way people talk in life at all.
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.
My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.
In my mind, the plays I was writing were extreme examples of art for art's sake. I didn't necessarily think that other people would love them, though I thought they probably would.
I am recognized a lot for 'Clueless,' but I am recognized a great deal for 'The Princess Bride.' I don't know... maybe everybody who has seen that movie just goes out on the street.
I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!
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.
My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the office, I lie down, dream, and become 'someone else.' That's my job.
The actor's role in the community is quite unlike anyone else's. Businessmen, for example, don't take their clothes off or cry in front of strangers in the course of their work. Actors do.
'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.
"The Fever" is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.