John Romero Quotes

I think I'm a part of all the characters I play, definitely at different times in my life. In real life, I'm kind of a tomboy. I like to read a lot I like watching T.V. I don't think I'm as interesting as my characters, but I like doing what I do.

Sometimes I can get lost in games.

What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.

You cannot stop the human mind from working.

I want to get people thinking.

There was a time when I wasn't working a lot. It ebbs and flows. Mostly I was just living my life and playing 'Fallout 3,' a very fun game.

The wheels are spinning in my head all the time.

In real life, nothing would be more tedious than trailing around after two strangers as they went house-hunting in Hertfordshire. But for some reason, television is more compelling than real life.

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

The more you hesitate in a game, the more your chance of getting hit. Your focus isn't there. When you hesitate, usually you're in trouble.

Movies are different from real life.

Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance.

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

The more downtime we have, the more time you have to play games like 'Ghost Recon Future Soldiers,' so for me it's a fun way to get integrated into video games and for me to have fun with my buddies and team up and go into battle with 'em, kind of like out there on court.

I can't wait to see The Grinch. It's so out of the world. Every time a movie like that comes out, I'm stoked. It's like real life.

I get bored quite easily, so I like to keep my mind entertained by challenging myself.

I don't think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is a distraction and that going to a movie is a way to get back, not go away.

Challenge me. Treat me like a game of checkers and play me. That's all I'm asking, just play me. Treat me like Sega and play me.

I've certainly played games that provoked a real emotional response or serious thought processes.

I do get obsessed with constantly thinking of ideas, all day long, but that's just how it is.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

I'm not the best gamer - I think you need to be strategic and level-headed, and you need to remain calm under pressure... and I don't really have those qualities!

Yes I still enjoy playing him. He's the best person to play isn't he?

I've tried to tell my kids: If you're reading something engrossing, you'll never, ever be bored.

When you're concentrating hard, hours can fly by, and it's just you and a math problem.