Role Playing Quotes

• The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.

  Gary Gygax

  Playing Games, Essence, Groups

  "Gary Gygax, Game Pioneer, Dies at 69" by Seth Schiesel, www.nytimes.com. March 05, 2008.

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• Role-playing games are contests in which the players usually cooperate as a group to achieve a common goal rather than compete to eliminate one another from play.... Role games ... bring players together in a mutual effort.

  Gary Gygax

  Player, Playing Games, Goal

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

  Gary Gygax

  Games, Dungeons, Roles

  "Dungeon Master: The Life and Legacy of Gary Gygax" by David Kushner, www.wired.com. March 10, 2008.

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• It [love about acting] is all about role playing - the same thing you do when you're a kid, when you play with dolls or toys and make up stories. I never grew out of it.

  Morgan Freeman

  Kids, Play, Acting

  "Mo People: Morgan Freeman. Morgan Magic". Interview with Alex Gorton, www.mandarinoriental.com.

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• I'd figure out ways to use role-playing in the healing of people.

  Kerry Washington

  Healing, People, Roles

  "There's Something About Kerry" by Ben Austen, www.elle.com. May 7, 2013.

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• When you master role-playing [gaming], you become immersed in an activity that is peerless among leisure-time pursuits.

  Gary Gygax

  Roles, Leisure, Masters

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• I kind of see clothes a bit like role-playing, depending what mood I'm in.

  Lily Cole

  Clothes, Roles, Kind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Real life this fdar had taught me that in the adult world, fate was chaotic and uncertain. Guidelines for success were arbitrary. But in the world of D&D, at least there was a rule book... By role-playing, we were in control, and our characters... wandered through places of danger, their destinies, ostensibly, within our grasp.

  Ethan Gilsdorf

  Real, Book, Character

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• As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone else's story - and much more toward enacting one's own story. Moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Moving, Playing Games, Culture

  "Douglas Rushkoff on Khaleesi Lady Gaga and why Sopranos' end works but Lost's doesn't". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. March 22, 2013.

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• Pen-and-paper role-playing is live theater and computer games are television. People want the convenience and instant gratification of turning on the TV rather than getting dressed up and going out to see a live play. In the same way, the computer is a more immediately accessible way to play games.

  Gary Gygax

  Games, Play, People

  "Dungeon Masters in Cyberspace" by Seth Schiesel, www.nytimes.com. February 27, 2006.

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• Daily life is a comprimised blend of posturing for the sake of role-playing and of varying degrees of self-revelation. Under stressful conditions even the "true" self cannot be precisely defined, as Erving Goffman observes. ...Little wonder that the identity crisis is a major source of modern neuroticism, and that the urban middle class aches for a return to a simpler existence.

  E. O. Wilson

  Self, Class, Identity

  "On Human Nature". Book by E. O. Wilson, 1978.

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• For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing.... Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Reality, Roles, Social Hierarchy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm more interested in the idea of role-playing in general than the idea of role-playing in art. I like the childlike quality of making pretend or the optimistic idea of pretending something's happening when it's not.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Art, Optimistic, Ideas

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that weve taken on a role or were acting in some way and that our acting or our role playing is crucial to the gender that we are and the gender that we present to the world.

  Judith Butler

  Taken, Mean, Acting

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• I think dating is all about role playing, and figuring out what you want and don't want. You figure out more about yourself by meeting people. You're like, "I'm not right for that person, but why am I not?" I think dating is a really interesting journey.

  Shiri Appleby

  Journey, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• I feel inauthentic at a party. ... Going to a party is a 'low' activity - the authentic self is compromised, fragmented - one plays 'roles.' One isn't fully present, beyond role-playing. One doesn't (can't) tell the full truth, which means one is lying, even if one doesn't literally tell lies.

  Susan Sontag

  Truth, Lying, Party

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.317, Macmillan

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• When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal.

  Steven Pinker

  Mean, Simple, Long

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• 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.

  Sarah Dessen

  Trying, Roles, Stuff

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• I like monsters in general - that's what I like to write about. Somebody was joking with me that my body was becoming a manual for a role-playing game because I'm covered in little monsters. That's true. I could easily have more monsters on my skin.

  Maria Dahvana Headley

  Writing, Playing Games, Skins

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Japanese gamers aren't really into action games right now. They're into role-playing or strategy games with a lot of stats, but action titles are still really popular across the US and Europe.

  Hideo Kojima

  Europe, Games, Titles

  Source: www.ign.com

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• We are moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Moving, Playing Games, Roles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Have McNab take the edge if you need one. Can he handle bad cop?" "He does it really well during personal role-playing games when I'm the reluctant witness.

  Nora Roberts

  Playing Games, Doe, Needs

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• I watch NFL football on Sundays. I enjoy gaming with friends, meaning role-playing games; I still enjoy going to conventions and traveling.

  George R. R. Martin

  Football, Sunday, Playing Games

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Moore's only concession to the Democrats' role-playing is to deny that he is a Democrat, hoping enough Americans were taught by public school teachers that no one will know how to look up Moore's voter registration card. Democrat.

  Ann Coulter

  Teacher, School, Roles

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• 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

  Playing Games, Japan, Numbers

  "Q&A: Shigeru Miyamoto Looks Into Nintendo's Future". Interview with Chris Kohler, www.wired.com. December 13, 2011.

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