\u201cI\u2019ve had very, very, very good luck. I mean, my wish would be that I could live longer and continue having good luck.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you believe that people ultimately get what they deserve, a lot of bad things would happen to me very soon, because I really had uncannily good luck.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shawn, who voices Rex the dinosaur in the Toy Story film series, credited his \u201cprivileged\u201d upbringing \u2013 mum Cecille was a journalist, and dad William was the editor of the New Yorker \u2013 for a successful life.<\/p>\n
Wallace Shawn credits his privileged upbringing for his successful life and career. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople who have good luck have tools to grab more good luck. I came from a privileged background. I didn\u2019t know that, and my parents were not, in a strange way, very conscious of it either. But I had every opportunity.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor a brief period, I thought maybe I would lead a humbler sort of life, much humbler than my parents\u2019 life. Then, I became an actor, and I returned to having a pretty comfortable bourgeois life. In a way, I\u2019m still downwardly mobile from my parents …<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I don\u2019t think my mother ever had a cappuccino. So am I downwardly mobile or upwardly mobile? Because I can have cappuccinos all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shawn reflected on his many credits over more than 50 years, including Young Sheldon, The Princess Bride and Clueless.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of actors don\u2019t like to watch themselves. For me, it\u2019s my new hobby or something. I don\u2019t expect you to understand, but time telescopes backwards.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe last 49 years that I\u2019ve been acting feel like a very short part of my life, and something I took up quite recently and never expected to do. I don\u2019t feel some of the things that people who always dreamed of being actors feel.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, I have little moments of being upset, where I think, \u2018I didn\u2019t do that moment very well.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019ve had very, very, very good luck. I mean, my wish would be that I could live longer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[115028,3376,95,6435,49239,156,4960,2250,29530,111,139,69,180,171162,427,61,24172,12884,4524,49493,9184],"class_list":["post-449113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-115028","tag-actor","tag-and","tag-does","tag-enjoy","tag-entertainment","tag-live","tag-longer","tag-luck","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-shares","tag-shawn","tag-story","tag-to","tag-toy","tag-wallace","tag-want","tag-wish","tag-yet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}