Wallace Shawn

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.

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 do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.

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.