Traditional Role Aficionado Gifts

Shepherd

"Okay, you both know the rules: no trash talk, no batting the other guy all over the house if he’s unconscious, watch the claws and nails..."

"You be the moral grandstander and I'll be the politically incorrect troll."

"I’ve settled comfortably into middle-age while Barry has settled comfortably into Middle Earth."

"Why didn't you simply open the window?"

MEGASTUDIOS, INC., 'Just think of it -- 'CSI Mayberry,' with Robert DeNiro as Andy and Wesley Snipes as Barney!'

'Which fashion magazine do you recommend?'

'Welcome! Highly placed, unidentified administration spokespersons convention.'

"Well, you're certainly on our short list."

"So I play this guy named Stan Snorkel who finds a big, gray poodle..."

"And what if I don't want to be Jack or Ennis?"

"Granted, there's no business like show business, but that's not the business I know."

"I'm sensing that the role-playing homework I gave you didn't work."

Sir John Gielgud.

Daniel Day Lewis

'It's simple, really. This line stays high and sets a good example for the other line.'

'You're always bragging about what a good actor you are, so why don't you act your age?!'

'Please hold any incoming personal calls for me. I need to disappear into character for a while!'

"Remember, you're a 17-year old fashion model. Now go out and act like you've never acted before."

"These LARPERS are a bit more subtle and reality-based."

"Do you have to mime looking at your mobile at the dinner table Marceau?"

'Is somebody here implying that I was not really sick?' (Best Actor award on his desk.)

'...Just like Daddy!'

"What's my motivation?"

"Wanna play doctor?"

"The clerk will call the roll."

"Harrison Ford, no question." "Tom Selleck, without a doubt." "I don't care if they did offer Selleck the role first, Ford was a much better 'Indiana Jones'." "Ford was OK, but his character was less than manly." "What are you talking about? That's ridiculous! Harrison Ford was the definition of eighties manliness!" "You're telling me the 'definition of eighties manliness' could run around the world for weeks and months at a time... and never once grow anything more than a little stubb

Jumbo in Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck

"You, Adam, are not acting like the first men. Remember, there's no precedent!"

Fish Lifeguard

"Why do I always have to play the pirates?"

"I know it's a little old-fashioned, but I'm a Capricorn, and I thought it would be romantic if I carried you over the cusp of our First House."

"Surround and attack. But do not be seduced by Kong's creamy, peanut butter filled center."

"I find it very significant that you would rather play house."

The Director at Intermission