Top 40 Wil Wheaton Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Be honest. Be kind. Be honorable. Work hard. And always be awesome.”

— Wil Wheaton

2. “Stay strong. Depression lies.”

— Wil Wheaton

3. “Being a nerd is not about what you love, it’s about how you love it.”

— Wil Wheaton

4. “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.”

— Wil Wheaton

5. “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.”

— Wil Wheaton

6. “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.”

— Wil Wheaton

7. “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.”

— Wil Wheaton

8. “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.”

— Wil Wheaton

9. “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.”

— Wil Wheaton

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

— Wil Wheaton

11. “I like to quote things.”

— Wil Wheaton

12. “The Enterprise is on a diplomatic mission to meet the Jarada, an alien species with a peculiar affinity for protocol: if Picard doesn’t speak a particular greeting in exactly the right way at exactly the right time, the Jarada won’t join the Federation, and they’ll take all their mythical Jaradan weed with them. You can imagine, the success of this mission is especially important to everyone on Starbase 420.”

— Wil Wheaton

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

— Wil Wheaton

14. “Don’t let the fear of not pleasing someone stop you from being creative.”

— Wil Wheaton

15. “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.”

— Wil Wheaton

16. “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.”

— Wil Wheaton

17. “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.”

— Wil Wheaton

18. “The reality of this election is that we can choose between a disappointing Democrat and the end of the world.”

— Wil Wheaton

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

— Wil Wheaton

20. “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.’”

— Wil Wheaton

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

— Wil Wheaton

22. “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.”

— Wil Wheaton

23. “Sometimes, a person who likes your work and a person who don’t will show up within milliseconds of each other to let you know how they feel. One does not need to cancel out the other, positively or negatively; if you’re proud of the work, and you enjoyed the work, that is what’s important.”

— Wil Wheaton

24. “When you say a ‘former child star,’ you may as well say ’failed child star.”

— Wil Wheaton

25. “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.”

— Wil Wheaton

26. “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.”

— Wil Wheaton

27. “Riker tells Data to just get on with it already, so Data says Ferengi are like Yankee traders from 18th-century America. This indicates that, in the 24th century, the traditional practice of using 600-year-old comparisons is still in vogue, like when you’re stuck in traffic on the freeway, and say, “Man, this is just like Vasco de Gama trying to go around the Cape of Good Hope!”

— Wil Wheaton

28. “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.”

— Wil Wheaton

29. “I’m going to go talk to some people to see if you could be in the movie because you should be in the movie.”

— Wil Wheaton

30. “People who don’t want to give a creator money are never going to give a creator money.”

— Wil Wheaton

31. “I wonder if The Lesson is that, in order to succeed, I need to rely upon myself, trust myself, love myself, and not put my happiness and sadness into the hands of others.”

— Wil Wheaton

32. “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.”

— Wil Wheaton

33. “So as you get older, and as your knowledge grows, don’t ever stop learning. Stay curious.”

— Wil Wheaton

34. “I remember a woman, speaking at a ceremony when Anne was given an award for National Women’s Health Week. She said, “women need to work in medical research, and in applied medicine, because too many men treat women’s bodies like they are just men’s bodies with female parts, but our bodies are fundamentally different and need to be treated that way.”

— Wil Wheaton

35. “I need to rely upon myself, trust myself, love myself and not put my happiness and sadness into the hands of others.”

— Wil Wheaton

36. “One of the best things I’ve ever done was take a close look at my mental health and accept that I wasn’t doing fine.”

— Wil Wheaton

37. “If there’s a red dwarf in Canis Major, and it isn’t named Clifford, I’m going to say a swear word.”

— Wil Wheaton

38. “And it makes you feel really, really alone. Like, you are the only person who has ever felt this way, and the only person who ever will feel this way, and if you just tried a little harder, you wouldn’t feel this way. But you do feel this way, because you’re alone. Yep, you’re alone and nobody can help you. In fact, it wouldn’t be surprised if you’re the only one with this infernal internal monologue. Look around you – nobody else seems to have this problem. It’s just you. But that’s not true.”

— Wil Wheaton

39. “There is no reason to feel embarrassed when you reach out to a professional for help, because the person you are reaching out to is someone who has literally dedicated their life to helping people like us live, instead of merely exist.”

— Wil Wheaton

40. “It happens so fast, Laina, you don’t even realize it’s happening. One day, your friends are eating breakfast with you in the canteen, and when it’s time for dinner, they’re wearing an Imperial uniform.”

— Wil Wheaton

41. “I don’t know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road I’ve traveled to get here is like those interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like you’re not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where you’re going and realize that you’ve been traveling for a long time.”

— Wil Wheaton

42. “Like all the other things I’d agonized over, the process of making the decision took more time and energy – and was more painful and scary – than the result.”

— Wil Wheaton

43. “You’ve got to stop worrying about a choice you made fifteen years ago, because you can’t change it.”

— Wil Wheaton

44. “It’s painful to recall, but I’m not ashamed, because all those thoughts – which I thankfully don’t have anymore, thanks to medical science and therapy – were not my fault any more than the allergies that clog my sinuses when the trees in my neighborhood start doin’ it every spring are my fault. It’s just part of who I am. It’s part of how my brain is wired, and because I know that, I can medically treat it, instead of being a victim of it.”

— Wil Wheaton

45. “And it’s not like I never reached out for help. I did! I just didn’t know what questions to ask, and the adults I was close to didn’t know what answers to give.”

— Wil Wheaton

46. “Nobody gets to tell you what your dream is or is not. Whatever your dream is, you deserve to realize it.”

— Wil Wheaton