Logo
Quote by Wallace Shawn
I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I rememb

I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freuds Interpretation of Dreams was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was! – Wallace Shawn

Other quotes by Wallace Shawn

I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didnt understand, and in a way still dont, because when I look in a mirror it doesnt seem funny to me. – Wallace Shawn

Category:
funny
Author
Wallace Shawn
Read Quote

Were 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

Category:
Hope
Author
Wallace Shawn
Read Quote

I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I dont think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton. – Wallace Shawn

Category:
Education
Author
Wallace Shawn
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Dreams
category

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us. – Wilma Rudolph

Category:
Dreams

My dreams are of water. And my nightmares. – Siouxsie Sioux

Category:
Dreams

Keep true to the dreams of your youth. – Friedrich Schiller

Category:
Dreams

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself mans dreams, mans illness, mans redemption from the misery of poverty – poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life. – Salvatore Quasimodo

Category:
Dreams

Random Quotes

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights. – Pearl Buck

Category:
Responsibility

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, theres been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived… Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos. – Andrew Motion

Category:
Poetry

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad? – Tom Clancy

Category:
Knowledge

The actors today really need the whip hand. Theyre so lazy. They havent got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen. – W. H. Auden

Category:
Actors, Acting