Quotes by Wil Wheaton

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.'

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

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.

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.

If you enjoyed making a thing, and you're proud of the thing you made, that's enough. Not everyone is going to like it, and that's okay.

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

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

I'm basically a professional nerd, and I'm still not cool. I'm around people who are cool sometimes, and I know I'm not them. But that's OK; I don't care.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Someone who I would describe as a 'geek' or 'nerd' is a person who loves something to its greatest extent and then looks for other people who love it the same way so they can celebrate loving it together.

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

I can't believe you said that about fire ants and thunderstorms! You are such a Houstonist!

Being a nerd is not about what you love, it's about how you love it.

I have found that the key to being happy -- well, one of the keys, anyway -- is to be easily amused,.

I have found that the key to being happy -- well, one of the keys, anyway -- is to be easily amused.

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

Anonymity, in some cases a key civil liberty, also enables society's worst actors.

I guess I'm up to about 70% of normal, which is a real relief. My doctor gave me clearance to go out in public again, so I've been able to go to the store and help out a little bit around the house.

Either you have a sense of humor about being a former child star, or you're in rehab. There's not a lot of gray area.

Even when I was little, people would always ask me if I wanted to be a movie star, and I would always say, No, I just want to be an actor.

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.

It's nearly impossible to enforce actual consequences in video games at the moment, but at a table, sitting face-to-face across a tabletop game, or even playing at a LAN party, sportsmanship matters.

My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me, with her compassion, patience and understanding.

Things every person should have: •A nemesis. •An evil twin. •A secret headquarters. •An escape hatch. •A partner in crime. •A secret identity.

Sorry, Vern. I guess a more experienced shopper could have gotten more for your seven cents.

No matter what I do with my life, or how successful I am, I will always be a socially awkward penguin inside.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy restored the balance in the Force after the Star Wars prequels ruined everything that was awesome about being a nerd at the movies.

'Ghost Adventures,' 'Mountain Monsters,' weird alien UFO shows like 'Ancient Aliens.' The people who are self-appointed experts in these fields are really a series of national treasures.

To be sure, anonymity online has it uses and is very important. Governments hoover up people's telephone and e-mail records without oversight, and companies track astonishingly granular personal information.

I think the default position of humans is to be terrible, and we have to train it out of our children. That's just part of survival, right? Predator animals don't survive by being nice; humans are basically predator animals.

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.

Stay strong. Depression lies.

As an adult, getting paid thousands of dollars a week to say, Aye, Sir. Course laid in is a seriously sweet gig, but when I was a teenager, it sucked.

Sometimes we know in our bones what we really need to do, but we're afraid to do it. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow, though and without risk there is no reward.

Keep playing games. Make time to play games with your friends and family, because it's surprisingly heartbreaking to wipe a thin layer of dust off a game you love, before you put it back on the shelf because the real world is calling you.

Found a dead body when I was 12, saved the Enterprise a few times, Ran the Axis of Anarchy, broke up Penny and Leonard. Currently running the non-lethal weapons lab at Global Dynamics.

The goal isn't to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing where something wasn't before.

One of the things that drives me crazy is the belief in Hollywood that bittorrent exists solely for stealing things.

When you say a 'former child star,' you may as well say 'failed child star.'

People who don't want to give a creator money are never going to give a creator money.

I was obsessed with 'Ghostbusters.'

I've done a lot of geeky things in my life, but I think the geekiest of all was my first effort to build props and cosplay, when I was about twelve years-old.

I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways.

When you get a group of kids together, especially boys, the psychology of those kids requires that they find a weak kid or a sensitive kid or a soft kid.

Even when I was little, people would always ask me if I wanted to be a movie star, and I would always say, 'No, I just want to be an actor.'

Even when I was little and going on auditions, it was clear who was there because they wanted to be there, and who was there because their stage parents were making them be there. There was a major difference.

I would love to find myself in a position where I have to decide, 'Gosh, do I want to be on a series?'

I'm guess I'm up to about 70% of normal, which is a real relief. My doctor gave me clearance to go out in public again, so I've been able to go to the store and help out a little bit around the house.

If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him.