Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to be likable yet to remain removed. When I speak up, it's not because I have any particular answers; rather, I have a desire to puncture the pretentiousness of those who seem so certain they do.
Wendy WassersteinBeing a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.
Wendy WassersteinI wrote my first play, Uncommon Women and Others, in the hopes of seeing an all-female curtain call in the basement of the Yale School of Drama. A man in the audience stood up during a post show discussion and announced, โI can't get into this, it's all about girls.โ I thought to myself, โWell, I've been getting in to Hamlet and Laurence of Arabia my whole life, so you better start trying.โ
Wendy WassersteinAnyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without your even asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.
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