S.L. Wallace Quotes
Do not believe that any one can know, better than yourself, what is right for you. Listen to what others have to say, but always form your own conclusions.
Every person who gets rich by creation opens a way for thousands to follow-and inspires them to do so.
The person who does not desire to live more abundantly is abnormal, and so the person who does not desire to have money enough to buy all he wants is abnormal.
Gratitude unifies the mind of man with the intelligence of substance, so that man's thoughts are received by the formless.
It is a natural law that like causes always produce like effects; and, therefore, any man or woman who learns to do things in this certain way will infallibly get rich.
In Scotland football hooliganism has been met by banning alcohol from grounds but in England this solution has been circumnavigated
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 have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.
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.
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.
I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.
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.
"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.
You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.
In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.
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 never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I'll ever top it.
In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.
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.
I love going to plays. There's a subconscious side to it, obviously-some people like to be spanked for XYZ psychological reasons, and I like to go to plays, and I can't entirely explain why.
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.
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.
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.
Floating upward through a confusion of dreams and memory, curving like a trout through the rings of previous risings, I surface. My eyes open. I am awake.
The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.
When I was twenty I was in love with words, a wordsmith. I didn't know enough to know when people were letting words get in their way. Now I like the words to disappear, like a transparent curtain.
Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that we are most tempted to lie. I know what he means, and I agree.
