Quotes About Role-playing

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.

In 'Fable III' we have taken away the experience system.

I've never played Dungeons & Dragons, but I'm actually pretty familiar with it.

With the advanced editing technologies, it's not difficult to play double roles these days. It can be done easily.

It was a lot of 'Dungeons and Dragons' all through my teens.

Oh, hello, Dr. M says, shaking Balder's hand. Wonderful costume. I'm a bit of a role player myself on the weekends. Tell me, where did you get the helmet? It was forged in the North, blessed by the hands of Odin, given to me by my mother, Frigg, Balder answers. Lovely. I got mine on the Internet.

Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.

I played everything, but the games that kept me up and night and tickled my fancy were the larger role-playing games like 'Ultima.'

There is a certain fictional element that goes in playing a common person.

I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.

I'm drawn to playing characters who are terribly flawed and have no idea about it.

An honest, unloving father or mother will do far less damage to his or her child than a role-playing, "loving" parent. A rejecting and unloving parent will cause a child pain, but a dishonestly rejecting parent causes the child pain and makes him or her feel "crazy.

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If you're an actor, you tend to fool yourself into thinking you're much younger than you are because you're playing parts and behaving like a child all the time.

It's fun, as acting always is. Where else can one indulge one's wildest fantasies as part of the job?

The man who plays his part upon the theatre of life almost always maintains what may be called an artificial character.

In politics, it's very theatrical. There's a lot of stage craft. The campaign is trying to tell a story that they want people to believe in, and candidates are playing the role, like actors, by a creative personae that people will be attracted to.

In Anger Management,' he said,'we had to do all this role-playing stuff. You know, to get used to handling things in a less volatile way.' 'You role-played,' I said, trying to picture this. 'I had to. It was court-ordered.

A whole hospital ward seemed to be crossdressing, nurses pretending to be mothers playing like boys with Tinkertoy babies.

It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life.

One of the great things about being an actor is that you do get to indulge in someone else's life.

It's easy to think of a role-playing game as an amalgamation of two main components, narrative and gameplay, jammed together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Sometimes, they fit together nicely; other times, they're as awkward and frustrating as that one weirdly-shaped 'Tetris' block that always falls into the gap where you need an L.

In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole world-building thing is very close to my heart.

I've played a lot of very posh, sort of noble or aristocratic English people, which is nothing like what I am, so I feel that there is quite a lot distance there and have played a little bit far away from myself.