Quotes About Role-playing

On my long list of hates about RPGs, one of them was, I always felt it was an unnecessary chore to make you care about a world when, in fact, what most players care about is their own personal experience.

Role-playing games are just an organic improvised space for storytelling.

Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.

I am not one of those actors who believes he has to live the part he is playing. I can turn it on and off.

A woman is like an actress: she's always onstage.

Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?

Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic.

I used to think I actually was Batman.

Euphemism. A form of irony that makes bad things sound good—or at least not as bad. Personification. Pretending things are human: another role-playing trope. Kindergarten Imperative. Issues a command in terms of a personal need. Yogism. A foolishly wise expression.

Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else?

I love strategy and RPG games.

The difference is that leveling characters is artificial; leveling XDMs, that's real!

more of a trend than a 'kult' – a set of wealthy feminists who suddenly found it cool to be submissive because they thought that no one had done it before, and because they could. So they became 24/7 subs (on finding the right master), and played the role enthusiastically.

I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

Lo sai, quando giocavamo all'avventuriero e all'avventuriera, tu eri quello a cui capitavano avventure ed io ero quella che le faceva capitare.

I'm very good at pretending to be subservient; I'm really good at it.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

The way I saw it, if my students were willing to pretend I was a teacher, the least I could do was return the favor and pretend that they were writers.

If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character motivations.

I was heavily addicted to a game called 'Diablo II.'

Most of the people you see going to work today are LARPing (live-action role playing) an incredibly boring RPG (role-playing game) called "professionalism" that requires them to alter their vocabulary, posture, eating habits, facial expressions--every detail all the way down to what they allow themselves to find funny.

I do love playing aristocrats, probably because it's so against type. So much more interesting than playing a version of yourself.