Wallace Shawn quote: "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."

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WALLACE SHAWN

There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and ev...
WALLACE SHAWN

I'm afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you wou...
WALLACE SHAWN

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

Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or por...
WALLACE SHAWN

I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothe...
WALLACE SHAWN

After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, br...
WALLACE SHAWN

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

I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most oth...
WALLACE SHAWN

I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a...
WALLACE SHAWN

Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love ...
WALLACE SHAWN

I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people ...
WALLACE SHAWN

My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In oth...
WALLACE SHAWN

I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.
WALLACE SHAWN

'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would...
WALLACE SHAWN

We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor ...
WALLACE SHAWN

It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to...
WALLACE SHAWN

I am recognized a lot for 'Clueless,' but I am recognized a great deal for 'The Princess...
WALLACE SHAWN

When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expr...
WALLACE SHAWN

We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, ...
WALLACE SHAWN

Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding any...
WALLACE SHAWN

I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my frien...
WALLACE SHAWN

'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I...
WALLACE SHAWN

I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of art...
WALLACE SHAWN

I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a g...
WALLACE SHAWN

Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someon...
WALLACE SHAWN

When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits...
WALLACE SHAWN

In an amusement park, you can go on a roller coaster that carries you up and down, or you can go on ...
WALLACE SHAWN

The life of an actor can be very enviable.
WALLACE SHAWN

I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for you...
WALLACE SHAWN

We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and ...
WALLACE SHAWN

For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's...
WALLACE SHAWN

Anyone who might not like us or what we do would find this tale of our childhood nauseating.
WALLACE SHAWN

If my relation to each and every peasant in Cambodia is indeed exactly what the principles of morali...
WALLACE SHAWN

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has def...
WALLACE SHAWN

When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying ...
WALLACE SHAWN

If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audit...
WALLACE SHAWN

Even when I was a kid, I had a good thing with kids. To this day, if I go to a birthday party with o...
SHAWN LEVY

Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice.
SHAWN JOHNSON

It's extremely important just to keep things positive and happy as much as we can... I think it&...
SHAWN MENDES

I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound thing...
TED SHAWN

I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and e...
TED SHAWN

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
TED SHAWN

I'm all over the place with muffins. Carrots are great. Banana, chocolate chip, they rock, too.
SHAWN MENDES

A lot of the jokes had some build-up to some nasty stuff. But most of it was all character situation...
SHAWN WAYANS

We pay homage to the people who came before, doing satires, like Mel Brooks; we're just carrying...
SHAWN WAYANS

When I was 3 my parents put me in gymnastics because I was a bundle of energy and they just didn'...
SHAWN JOHNSON

Tully was the first young, handsome, cocky, well-dressed bad guy. He was our version of Ric Flair be...
SHAWN MICHAELS

I'd rather sleep on the bus than in the hotel because I sleep way better on tour buses.
SHAWN MENDES

The world moves fast. Business moves fast. Digital media moves extremely fast. It is far too easy to...
SHAWN AMOS

I was 12 years old, so auditioning for a TV show was something I didn't even think really happen...
SHAWN ROBERTS

Many cities make music, but no city breathes music quite like Memphis. The songs and sounds that com...
SHAWN AMOS

Despite all of our technological advances, content creation still requires time, inspiration, and a ...
SHAWN AMOS

You can make a good show, but you still need some magical alchemy to get people to watch.
SHAWN RYAN

Some people talk about screen kisses being strange or uncomfortable. But I think that I got along wi...
SHAWN ASHMORE

I have a healthy lifestyle, but there's nothing you can really do to prevent from rolling an ank...
SHAWN JOHNSON

Did people care about how a singer sounded live back in the day? I don't really feel like they d...
SHAWN MENDES

Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste.
SHAWN AMOS

I found you can believe the man in history that is Jesus who walked the earth. It's a whole diff...
SHAWN MICHAELS

Being called 'The Heartbreak Kid', 'Mr. Wrestlemania,' and all those other names doe...
SHAWN MICHAELS

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided.
SHAWN RYAN

To be honest, I've only been to one concert, and it was Aerosmith. Aerosmith and Slash.
SHAWN MENDES

I'm proud to say I'm a role model for kids.
SHAWN MENDES

Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.
SHAWN ASHMORE

I just got Kill Bill: Vol. 2. I've watched it like eight times in the past two months. I just lo...
SHAWN ASHMORE

As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.
SHAWN ASHMORE

The real excitement and big deal for me started when I got cast in the first X-Men, which was sort o...
SHAWN ASHMORE

I'm 25, so I've already gone through what my character Ged goes through, though it's on ...
SHAWN ASHMORE

I think Ian McKellen made it all happen, because he used to throw dinner parties and invite everyone...
SHAWN ASHMORE

You get bored if you do the same thing too much.
SHAWN ASHMORE

I never could have planned this, and now I'm in my ideal situation career-wise and just sort of ...
SHAWN ASHMORE

I read the comics long before I was ever involved with the films.
SHAWN ASHMORE

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother gro...
SHAWN ASHMORE

It doesn't get more iconic than Terry Fox.
SHAWN ASHMORE

Getting to play superheros is a pretty good job.
SHAWN ASHMORE

The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.
SHAWN ASHMORE

Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is...
SHAWN ASHMORE

I'm a video game buff.
SHAWN ASHMORE

I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough.
SHAWN ASHMORE

My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice.
SHAWN ASHMORE

I think it's more fun to play a hero with an edge.
SHAWN ASHMORE

Being a villain is great, even though I've only gotten to do it a few times.
SHAWN ASHMORE

No designer has really wowed me yet, I'm into other people's recommendations when it comes t...
SHAWN ASHMORE

There are rumors, rumors, rumors. I'm always the last one to know about these things, literally.
SHAWN ASHMORE

Our first scene is sort of a reunion between the X-Men characters, which establishes everyone's ...
SHAWN ASHMORE

Ultimately, I think it's just going to get you that exposure, get you in that door, get you that...
SHAWN ASHMORE

Above and beyond having the social life, to have a core group of people that you work with and spend...
SHAWN ASHMORE

Every day on set, there was something to watch and learn.
SHAWN ASHMORE

The body is an amazing machine... If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well...
SHAWN JOHNSON

Being a sex symbol isn't cool unless you're in love with a girl, and she calls you a sex sym...
SHAWN MENDES

My parents- they've been my biggest influences and supporters since day one. They teach me every...
SHAWN JOHNSON

Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.
SHAWN ACHOR

If you're going to write an anthem for an old man who's up at political bat for the last tim...
SHAWN AMOS

Years ago, I was always serious, and now I chuckle and make jokes to create a calm environment becau...
SHAWN MICHAELS

We're all posting and clicking and sharing, but we're not devoting enough attention to get a...
SHAWN AMOS

If I don't have cereal on the bus, I'm going to be really upset.
SHAWN MENDES

You see the standard hunting show; it's an outdoor television show. A lot of times, it's jus...
SHAWN MICHAELS

The rise of digital technology put marketers in a bind. No longer a captive audience, consumers were...
SHAWN AMOS

Depending on your political orientation, the Dixie Chicks are either the great defenders of free spe...
SHAWN AMOS

We are a family that lives probably 90 percent on wild game. We're certainly working our way tow...
SHAWN MICHAELS

I don't know if it's that my own childhood felt brief, or I grew up too fast, or I was pushi...
SHAWN LEVY

At the height of his popularity in 1977, Cat Stevens converted to Islam and dedicated his life to ed...
SHAWN AMOS

Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse y...
SHAWN ACHOR

Island Records was the first record label to... acknowledge me. After that, quickly, Republic Record...
SHAWN MENDES

The payment for certain sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided.
SHAWN RYAN

I live in a constant state of gratitude, thankfulness, and appreciation for the second chance I was ...
SHAWN MICHAELS

It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of ...
SHAWN FANNING

No matter what, I'm trying to have fun and, depending on the mood, fun can be on a roller coaste...
SHAWN MENDES

When you do a drama, you are challenged to trust your inner voice much more. Because when you put a ...
SHAWN LEVY

The first year I started hockey, I didn't know how to skate, so I got on the ice with all of the...
SHAWN MENDES

Even though I wrestled Ric Flair very early on in my career, it was a short match, so getting to wre...
SHAWN MICHAELS

In Los Angeles, parenting is a competitive sport. From Beverly Hills baby boutiques to kids' yog...
SHAWN AMOS

You don't have to be a believer in Jesus Christ to be a gracious individual and understand that ...
SHAWN MICHAELS

John Wells and Christopher Chulack were pretty honest from the get-go in our first meeting about ...
SHAWN HATOSY

I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of wh...
SHAWN MENDES

It's fascinating to go somewhere where you're away from everything. There are no houses, no ...
SHAWN MICHAELS

You have to be careful not to make music something you don't want to do. Which happens. I've...
SHAWN MENDES

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I ...
SHAWN JOHNSON

If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets.
SHAWN FANNING

There was a time when a musician was forced to act in a video. Seeing a singer step too far outside ...
SHAWN AMOS

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of ...
SHAWN COLVIN

In my early performing days, I played gigs under the pseudonym Whitey McFearsun. I painted my face b...
SHAWN AMOS

The Four Horsemen were limousines and Lear Jets, while DX was trailer parks and outhouses. One was w...
SHAWN MICHAELS

People will constantly bring up my past and throw it in my face, but the Creator of the Universe doe...
SHAWN MICHAELS

Long before Wesley Snipes decided he didn't need to pay the IRS, Willie Nelson was dodging the t...
SHAWN AMOS

The Woodstock dove on the iconic poster is really a catbird. And it was originally perched on a flut...
SHAWN AMOS

I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like...
SHAWN JOHNSON

I suppose a lot of people don't understand that one of the things that drew me to hunting was th...
SHAWN MICHAELS

In the '60s, my father, Wally Amos, had been a talent agent and a personal manager before taking...
SHAWN AMOS

From 15 to 18, everybody is a different person. Every six months, I have a whole new outlook on life...
SHAWN MENDES

Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder...
SHAWN AMOS

But I am a dreamer
So you sent me away.
Sometimes we dreamers
Just get in the way.
SHAWN MULLINS

I have a lot of expectations and a lot of goals I want to fulfill, but the biggest dream is still to...
SHAWN JOHNSON

I work so hard to make that sure I'm successful. If you're positive and really excited and e...
SHAWN MENDES

We began like any other borderline awful local garage band aspiring to impress the ever-feared and r...
SHAWN HARRIS

I live in the social purgatory of the San Fernando Valley, while my eldest daughter is bused to a ch...
SHAWN AMOS

There are faith-based movies that some people don't consider good, but every time it comes to th...
SHAWN MICHAELS

I'm one of those people who would be OK with fading back into the background a little bit.
SHAWN MICHAELS

There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded....
SHAWN FANNING

Series finales have that responsibility to leave you feeling good about entire series. You want to f...
SHAWN RYAN

Many comedic stars have tried to a do a 'Night at the Museum' type film, in which an everyda...
SHAWN LEVY

One of the things my dad and I got to bond over was going to the San Antonio Spurs games when Gervin...
SHAWN MICHAELS

Every single tune you know from the 1940s until the 1970s was written, arranged, and demoed in the B...
SHAWN AMOS

A few performances have been left out of the various Woodstock soundtracks and film edits over the y...
SHAWN AMOS

From chain gangs to folk songs to intelligent soul, America has created musicians dedicated to truth...
SHAWN AMOS

The Dolls were the forefathers of glam. You never knew if they were going to kiss you or punch you. ...
SHAWN AMOS

It's hard for me to just say, 'Wow, this is amazing - I'm famous. I'm living the dre...
SHAWN MENDES

I know I'll pitch sometime during the season. I'll just leave it at that. I'll be ready to go whenev...
SHAWN CHACON

That's what I love about my faith and Christianity. It's the polar opposite of darn near eve...
SHAWN MICHAELS

We are very excited to have secured Jim Bouton as the keynote speaker for our July 2006 show.
SHAWN COLLINS

Bret and I were friends, but we were young, and we made bad decisions. We couldn't see outside t...
SHAWN MICHAELS

If I truly believe everything that's in that book, God is in control. He is in control. He's...
SHAWN MICHAELS

My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother S...
SHAWN AMOS

When you're this far away, winning makes up a lot. Winning makes homesickness not that bad.
SHAWN WITHERSPOON

Well that's a whole other ball of fish.
SHAWN G.

They pointed the gun at me and said don't move. One guy picked it up (the safe) they struggled and t...
SHAWN COSTINO

My knee is almost back to normal. I am back in training.
SHAWN JOHNSON

The late, great Janis Joplin could drink ten men under the table, then sing loud enough to shake the...
SHAWN AMOS

That's no disrespect to Colorado or anything,
SHAWN CHACON

The Real Slim Shady.
SHAWN WAYANS

It's an exciting sport. It's fresh, even though it's been around for a while. For us, it's just star...
SHAWN WAYANS

And with our family, we are trying to extend our brand.
SHAWN WAYANS

'Morsel' is a perfect word. Forming those six letters on the lips and tongue prompts an inst...
SHAWN AMOS

It really depends what you want to get out of your indoor program. The sport has only been in Vermon...
SHAWN WOODS

The minute I broke that record, I called by older brother Curt and rubbed it in a little bit.
SHAWN RUSSELL

You can aways achieve, if only you believe.
SHAWN SMITH

It was very back and forth. We had too many turnovers in the end. Jeremy Hatch had a really nice gam...
SHAWN FRENCH

It gives it more of a concert atmosphere because it's like a balcony.
SHAWN JOHNSON

This is probably our toughest week of the season.
SHAWN RYCHCIK

I carry around this little lion named Leo, which I've had for as long as I can remember.
SHAWN MENDES

There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Brow...
SHAWN COLVIN

I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a...
SHAWN FANNING

I really love going back home. I think going back to a nice, relaxed little town is the best way to ...
SHAWN MENDES

Susan Boyle having a meltdown is not controversial. It's human for a 48-year-old recluse to get ...
SHAWN AMOS

Memphis is the place where rock was born and Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed. It's full of c...
SHAWN AMOS

Year after year, we see a new crop of musicians who do their best to look tough in lipstick and make...
SHAWN AMOS

Growing up in a suburban home, the world seems so massive to you. It seems like cities are so big an...
SHAWN MENDES

It's no coincidence that 'Night at the Museum' completely blew the lid off my career. I ...
SHAWN LEVY

I didn't have to pitch out of jams. For the most part, I kept runners off base and out of scoring po...
SHAWN CHACON

Our line of work is very cynical, and a lot of it is driven by cynicism, cruelty, and meanness. It&#...
SHAWN MICHAELS

He attacked, and she blocked the knife with her left hand, grabbing the knife, ... She stated he jer...
SHAWN MURPHY

What the MRI showed was to me the best-case scenario. We're dealing with muscle, not ligament. That ...
SHAWN ESTES

There were a couple of miscues. A turnover here, a made shot there and it would have been our game, ...
SHAWN MARION

Hart is one of the best around. He's a tremendously strong, tough, fast athlete, who has all the too...
SHAWN MAGUIRE

[Even in the weeks before Survivor Series, Hart said he got into a] little catfight ... by what litt...
SHAWN MICHAELS

We didn't come out with any intensity. We looked like we were asleep in the first inning. You can't ...
SHAWN GILMER

To be competitive for a league championships and to fight as a top team. We expect a lot from our ki...
SHAWN MAGUIRE

I give St. Xavier credit for not quitting. They hit the tough shots at the end.
SHAWN NELSON

When we met as a team he wanted to know what was on our minds. He realizes we have a great program a...
SHAWN WITHERSPOON

The wrestling world is unique. There are things that happened, and there are things that didn't ...
SHAWN MICHAELS

So now I feel like I've actually graduated to the point where it's not because I'm a homegrown kid t...
SHAWN CHACON

A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.
SHAWN JOHNSON

Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.
SHAWN JOHNSON

Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.
SHAWN JOHNSON

I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it.
SHAWN JOHNSON

I told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away fr...
SHAWN JOHNSON

In every aspect of my life, I live under the protection of and in accordance to the laws of this nat...
SHAWN MICHAELS

Even the whole second half, we dug ourselves out of a 13-point lead (at the half), strictly by playi...
SHAWN JOHNSON

I would love to have gotten into it with Harley Race. He was such a good wrestler and rough and toug...
SHAWN MICHAELS

We've been in a lot worse situations. We're happy, but not satisfied with where we are at the break....
SHAWN HORCOFF

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.

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