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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
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
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
When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that we've taken on a role or we're 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
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
I love playing odd roles. -- Aaron Paul
I loved fantasy role play. -- Curt Schilling
I play a huge variety of roles. -- Casper Van Dien
The mind cannot long play the heart's role. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I don't even like playing a contentious role. -- Jim DeMint
Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport. -- Pierre de Coubertin
There are a thousand ways to play any role. -- Val Kilmer
JFK is a role I've always dreamt of playing. -- Rob Lowe
To love without role, without power plays, is revolution. -- Rita Mae Brown
I'll ask you if you can play some speaking roles. -- Donald Wolfit
I love the role that men play in our lives. -- Shania Twain
There is no role I cannot play except a midget. -- Theodore Bikel
I'd love to play Carmen - it's the perfect mezzo role. -- Katherine Jenkins
Every actor wants to be everybody - play all the roles. -- Kyle Chandler
I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role. -- Ed Westwick
D and D: a role-playing game played only by very cool guys. -- Frank Portman
I'd figure out ways to use role-playing in the healing of people. -- Kerry Washington
I kind of see clothes a bit like role-playing, depending what mood I'm in. -- Lily Cole
The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience. -- Gary Gygax
For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing.... Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy. -- Peter Schjeldahl
There are a million roles I haven't played yet that I would love to play! -- Chris Klein
When you master role-playing [gaming], you become immersed in an activity that is peerless among leisure-time pursuits. -- Gary Gygax
My goal is to just keep playing roles that are different from the roles I've played before. -- Alicia Witt
We are moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames. -- Douglas Rushkoff
If I only get to play Malaysian roles, there wouldn't be very many roles for me to play. -- Michelle Yeoh
Some of the roots of role-playing games (RPGs) are grounded in clinical and academic role assumption and role-playing exercises. -- Gary Gygax
As a model you do play a certain role and you know as an actor you play another role. -- Gemma Ward
What I want to do is play roles as a black man, instead of playing black man's roles. You know? -- Jim Brown
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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I'm a role model. I have overcome the negativity, and I'm playing. -- Lamar Odom
Even if we are destroying this planet, we are playing our role perfectly. -- Bryan Kest
I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is. -- Bea Arthur
I don't know the role I'm playing. I only know it's mine, non-convertible. -- Wislawa Szymborska
Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game. -- Gary Gygax
Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role. -- Confucius
I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role. -- Gary Carr
That's the ideal. Not to get stuck in a rut playing the same role. -- Laura Osnes
I've always been exactly who I am on TV. I'm not playing a role. -- Chelsea Handler
Malcolm X already envisioning the N.O.I. playing a role cooperatively with integrationist organizations. -- Manning Marable
I'm an actor and this is a role I'm playing. But people can get wacky. -- Dean Cain
I love playing a role where I think I'm right and then you learn you're not. -- Kyle Chandler
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I play a crazy talk-show host, but that's not me. It's like an actor playing a role. -- Jerry Springer
I believe when actors say they can go crazy playing the same role, over and over again. -- Tyler Posey
Stop wasting time in playing a role or a concept. Instead, learn to ACTUALIZE YOURSELF, your potential. -- Bruce Lee
God is playing a role in all religions and that Christians are more united than they sometimes think. -- George O. Wood
The role that I play as a lone striker, I enjoy it and particularly playing with great players. -- Jermain Defoe
You know, my role as Vice Chairman is a lot less tiring than playing matches every three days. -- Michel Patini
The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers. -- Leonard Slatkin
In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society. -- Samina Baig
The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it. -- Pat Riley
They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role. -- Harvey Keitel
Basically, the way you get into any role is just doing research on the type of character you're playing. -- Theo Rossi
Many people in this world are merely playing a role, unaware that there is an Invisible Hand guiding them. -- Paulo Coelho
I fear that this is what long term relationships are all about, at base: full-time role-playing, memorized and inhabited. -- Elisa Albert
I think, on a surface level, people are surprised to see me playing such a passive role in 'Good.' -- Viggo Mortensen
When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are -- Bradley Whitford
Progressive Conservative candidates from Quebec want to exert real power in Ottawa, not simply be content with playing a secondary role. -- Kim Campbell
I am the least qualified person to comment on anyone playing the role of Batman since I so terribly destroyed the part, -- George Clooney
We are creatures on this planet that have the capacity of self-awareness, playing out our role just the same as all else. -- Bryan Kest
It is not the role of government to use the taxation and welfare system as a tool to level the playing field. -- Joe Hockey
Leaders say no to corruption. Anyone playing a role in governance, and is not ready to do this is not a leader. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before. -- Mike Rogers
I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that. -- Sean Penn
You're just playing a role, whether it's a drama or a comedy. I find it really fun to sort of play opposite Uma. -- Luke Wilson
GPS not only played a large and delocalizing role in the war in Kosovo but is increasingly playing a role in social life. -- Paul Virilio
If someone has already done a role I'm about to do, I won't watch the original until after I'm finished playing the role. -- Sanaa Lathan
It's the American leadership that has not played the role it should be playing and that leaders in other countries have been playing. -- Jeffrey Sachs
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If you're playing a lead, you're shaping the movie. When you're playing a supporting role, you've got only a moment to make it count. -- Stephen Rea
The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit. -- Natalie Maines
I absolutely knew that I wanted to play role-playing games when I saw a friend of mine playing 'Bard's Tale 2' on his Commodore 64. -- Chris Avellone
In the end, it's your job to own the role, and in the end, you are playing certain aspects of your own self, even. -- Linus Roache
I feel like I'm playing more of a role walking down the red carpet than when I'm playing an ordinary woman covered in sweat. -- Kate Winslet
Money should not direct you to what to do and what not to do; the giver of the money is responsible for playing that role. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively. -- Kate Winslet
Canada has always been a strong supporter of China's accession to the WTO... We look forward to playing a constructive role in helping complete China's accession. -- Pierre Pettigrew
Canada has always been a strong supporter of Chinas accession to the WTO... We look forward to playing a constructive role in helping complete Chinas accession. -- Pierre Pettigrew
I'm really proud of the characters I've been able to play. Certainly, playing the character on 'CSI' as Dr. Sherman Hawkes is a wonderful stereotype-busting role. -- Hill Harper
There's no particular role that comes to mind that I'd like to take on, but for me, it's about playing interesting characters and not just two-dimensional ones. -- Michelle Dockery
PokÃ©mon was made with Miyamoto-san's advice. Since I was a teenager, playing Donkey Kong, he's always been my role model. He's a mentor for my heart. -- Satoshi Tajiri
I think playing any iconic role when you're stepping into big shoes, into the shadow of people who have come before you and you can't process that. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
I've always been an athletic guy, but the extent to which I go for 'True Blood' or for 'Magic Mike' is because of the role that I'm playing. -- Joe Manganiello
I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role. -- Mathieu Kassovitz
The people who believe that their soul is being crushed by playing a particular role need to take a vacation or check into the looney bin for awhile. -- Anson Mount
Family is hugely important to me. Having kids is the best possible way to shake off any kind of darkness that might accompany a role that you're playing. -- Dan Stevens
If you don't feel comfortable playing a role, if you're in a scenario that's not conducive for that kind of environment, then that's when you don't do well. -- Nina Dobrev
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
As we are all aware, Special Operations Forces, SOF, are playing an increasingly essential role as we continue to fight and, more importantly, win the war on terror. -- Robin Hayes
I loved playing a dramatic role. There's a side of me a lot of people don't know, and when I do dramatic roles, it just all comes out. -- Bow Wow
My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in. -- Johnny Vegas
Fourth, come home from work and take an active role with your family. Don't put work, friends, or sports ahead of listening to, playing with, and teaching your children. -- M. Russell Ballard
I don't have real big aspirations to be a movie star. I would love to be on a long-running hit TV show. You end up playing a defining role. -- Jenna Fischer
I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line. -- Gary Oldman
Welcome to The Daily Show, I'm John Oliver. Jon Stewart is still not here. He is currently living out a live-action Lord of the Rings role-playing experience deep in the New Zealand wilderness. -- John Oliver
Initially it was a fascination for Tolkienesque Fantasy, and role-playing games, with time I realized that it was the mythological elements that fascinated me the most, so I moved more and more in that direction. -- Varg Vikernes

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