Ben Edlund Quotes

I was a huge fantasy geek growing up. I was the dungeon master in my D&D game.

I live life like it's a role-playing game.

It was a lot of 'Dungeons and Dragons' all through my teens.

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.'

I played lots of fantasy games. I would create these worlds, and I would believe in them.

I love the possibility that anything can happen in any moment with acting. That you have the opportunity to experience lives and adventures that you may not have otherwise.

I still like to play games that have a beginning, an end and a story.

There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agenst or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.

'Game of Thrones' was the first fantasy thing I've done, and like a lot of people who enjoy the show watching it, I didn't expect to respond to that world, but when I started doing it, I really started to love it, started to realize that some of the things I'm naturally drawn to.

I don't know exactly how I end up with some of these roles. It mystifies me sometimes, but I am a fan of sci-fi. I love being taken into a strange world, and when it's told with imagination and credibility, I love being taken on that trip. I always have.

I liked playing video games because I felt like I was inside of the story in a way that I didn't feel when I was just watching something. Any chance I could get to step into the shoes of another person, I would take. I couldn't get enough of stories.

Gravity Falls' is a show about mysteries and magic but first and foremost it's a show about characters.

I really enjoyed entering a new world and getting to know a new character - the world of 'Grimm' and becoming a Wesen.

I've always loved fantasy books. Even just growing up, I've always kind of loved magic and fantasy.

I really got used to playing Maura.

My choice growing up was the 'Star Wars' role playing game. At that time in the Nineties, they had a pretty robust pen and paper system.

I live to experience different things. Part of what I love about acting is to live the lives of others.

I'm like a geek that grew up playing with Star Wars toys and creating action sequences, essentially, with toys.

I think that always makes it fun, trying to create a heroic character and putting your own twist on it and injecting your own personality into it.

What's so strong about 'Game of Thrones' is that it's a character and political drama, with a sort of fantasy backdrop.

'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.

I am a fairytale person and firmly believe that movies are made to entertain.

I actually enjoy playing monsters and that kind of thing.

There are lots of things to do. Lots of movies to catch. Lots of places to visit... I try to bring in every real life experience into my acting.

I've been thinking if 'GoT' would lend itself easily to an MMORPG. I mean, it certainly has the background and incredible storylines for it, along with some pretty huge characters to hinge the story around.