“you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.”

“Sometimes you have to play a long time to play like yourself.”

“You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go. Don’t ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.”

“We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.”

“When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.”

“If you're going to play what-if --which, by the way, is a huge waste of time and energy, not to mention an act of supreme, center-of-the-universe narcissism-- you have to play it both ways. If you're going to imagine yourself as an accidental villain, you have to give yourself equal time as an unwitting hero. As somebody who prevented God-knows-what dire disaster simply by doing exactly the things you did.”