Wil Wheaton Quotes

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Wil Wheaton

Profession : Actor

Birth : July 29, 1972

I love tabletop and video games, which should be open and inclusive to everyone.

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Paranormal reality shows are some of the best unintentional comedy in the history of recorded entertainment.

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I was lucky to have been a seven-year-old kid when I saw 'Star Wars.'

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I fell in love with Dungeons & Dragons, and the storytelling of it, and the weird dice, and the fact that it didn't use a traditional board. It felt like I was a part of something special and almost kind of like a secret club because a lot of people didn't know what it was and didn't understand it.

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To the best of my knowledge, a lot of people who play video games also play tabletop games and vice versa.

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One of the things that I've never seen in tabletop gaming is this juvenile notion that the existence of a game that I don't like, or the existence of a gamer who's different than me, threatens my very existence and the very existence of my hobby.

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I go around the country, and I speak to colleges, conferences and thousands of people at a time, and I'm like, 'Great. Fine. Whatever.' Coming to speak to about 60 kids, I am scared to death.

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I'm very lucky in that I was inspired by science fiction while I was a little kid, and I was interested in science and technology and was encouraged to pursue those interests.

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To understand a field, you look at its arts. Arts can be cautionary as well as inspiring.

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I obviously pursued a career in the arts but always wondered if I had just been supported a little more in math, as opposed to it being 'a thing I had to learn,' how that would have changed things for me.

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I want people to understand and embrace that the art that inspires our technological dreams is just as important as the tech it helps us create.

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When a person makes fun of you, when a person is cruel to you, it has nothing to do with you. It's not about what you said. It's not about what you did. It's not about what you love. It's about them feeling bad about themselves.

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When I was a boy, I was called a nerd all the time - because I didn't like sports, I loved to read, I liked math and science, I thought school was really cool - and it hurt a lot. Because it's never OK when a person makes fun of you for something you didn't choose. You know, we don't choose to be nerds.

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I really try my best to be the person I want other people to be.

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I'm privileged to occasionally stand on a table, and people listen to what I say, and in those moments, it's important to me that I have something to say and that I honor it.

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One of the things that I'm very proud to stand up and yell about is that we need to end gatekeeping in our society. We need to stop people from saying, 'You need to pass the test if you're going to come in here and do this.'

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Being a nerd is not about what you love; it's about the way you love it.

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