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Quotes About Role-playing

I am a woman pretending to be a man, pretending to be this ship's first officer, pretending to be a pirate, pretending to be innocent of murder … I begin to lose track of all the roles I am playing.
~ Mercedes Lackey
I decide what character I am. I allow myself to become another person. Because if I'm just Stephanie, I'm not comfortable. When I have to jump and do all these things, I feel so silly, but if you become someone else, it's okay.
~ Stephanie Seymour
In the U.S., many people thought what we were doing was frothy, silly, just not serious enough. The kind of pop role-playing we were aiming for was out of place in American pop culture.
~ Ron Mael
I'm not actually a mom in real life, so it's fun to pretend to be one. I like to approach things the same in art as in life. You can choose to look on the positive side and enjoy whatever roles you're given. You can find the silver lining in anything.
~ Heather Graham
There is a degree of role-playing in modeling, for sure, and you're also in a high-profile job - there are lots of similarities for sure. But when I'm acting, I've got to try and be present, and I've got to be emotionally committed to a character, both physically and intellectually.
~ Lily Cole
Amy felt her phone vibrate. She held it up. It was from Ian. DON'T ASK THE PRICE OF ANYTHING. DON'T SMILE. DON'T SAY "DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING CHEAPER?" DON'T Amy shoved the phone back in her pocket. "Just pretend to be Ian," she told Dan.
~ Jude Watson
Actors go into it because it gives us the chance to play people a great deal more interesting than we are, and to say things infinitely wittier and more intelligent than anything we could think of.
~ Prunella Scales
'Reckoning' will be the first game of its kind. They've taken that 'God of War'-style combat and placed it in a truly open world with hundreds of hours of gameplay. You can do whatever it is you want to do. What path you take, what role you choose, what trail you blaze - there's meaning and depth and substance in the world.
~ Curt Schilling
Role-playing games have been a huge part of my life and a huge part of my training as a performer - learning social skills, meeting friends, and being a generally competent person - so I owe a lot to role-playing games.
~ Matthew Mercer
RPGs are great for MMO transitions.
~ Peter Molyneux
I've never actually participated in role-playing games myself, except on one occasion when a coworker of mine came to my house and introduced my two brothers and me to a single game of 'Dungeons & Dragons.'
~ Jeffrey Thomas
I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I've always played the mom and I play my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.
~ Dakota Fanning
In papergaming, players can look at a character sheet of their own creation and see all of their skills, right there, in black and white.
~ Warren Spector
I love being someone I'm not for a period of time. I love every minute of being in someone else's skin.
~ Jessica Biel
I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.
~ Dakota Fanning
Acting is very much like a child making believe. I'm not one to become a character, but I fall in love with the character. It's like having faith; you're going to be that person for a while.
~ Lusia Strus
La idea de Óscar de cómo se enamoraba a una jevita era hablarle de juegos de rol! ¿Qué locura es ésa? (Mi momento favorito fue un día en la guagua de la línea E cuando le dijo a una morena que estaba buenísima, ¡Si estuvieras en mi juego te daría dieciocho puntos de carisma!)
~ Junot Diaz
Trying to be a good actor has to be involved with placing yourself imaginatively in different people's circumstances.
~ Paul Bettany
Of course, when it comes to Japanese role-playing games, in any role-playing game in Japan you're supposed to collect a huge number of items, and magic, and you've got to actually combine different items together to make something really different.
~ Shigeru Miyamoto
I grew up in Manchester in a big Irish family - there are seven of us in all - so my life has always been about role-playing, about doing anything for a laugh. I'm always joking about; that's the way I am.
~ Shayne Ward
D and D: a role-playing game played only by very cool guys.
~ Frank Portman
She took a deep breath and let herself become someone else. An imitation of herself who was calm, even in a situation like this.
~ Brandon Sanderson
People in a group each pretend to be someone different, and tell a story together.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Eu,una,n-am s? fiu niciodat? mam?,a declarat Stasia.Am ras cu to?ii.Nici so?ie nu am s? fiu vreodat?;Doamne,e destul de complicat s? fii femeie.Ur?sc femeile!Toate-s ni?te c??ele scarboase,chiar cele mai bune dintre ele.Eu o s? fiu ceea ce sunt:o impostoare care joac? rolul de femeie.
~ Henry Miller