Top 100 Joss Quotes
#1. Try taking a stand on just one leg. You need to see both sides.
Joss Whedon
#2. I'm never interested in movies where you don't care about the people you're watching, and that's my biggest quibble about horror, that kids have gotten stupider and stupider.
Joss Whedon
#3. I became a new person; sucked into the neutrality of the abyss, comforted by social norms, and set free from the burden of individuality.
Joss Sheldon
#4. I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.
Joss Whedon
#5. I was seriously considering giving both Ellie and Braden a lump of coal for their Christmas present this year as a thank-you for turning Joss into a normal person who annoyed her friends with her terrible matchmaking skills.
Samantha Young
#6. A teen boy's wet dream, right here, right in front of him. Elliott closed his eyes, trying to reason with his raging erection, which argued, Come on, come on, it's been fifty years.
Joss Ware
#7. I'm pissed like this rutting beast can't conceive - I'm a lifetime of pissed, of strong, of muscle built over bruise, I'm slick with power and feel the fight as it changes ...
As it flows ...
... Everything into place, perfect, and I finally do what I was born to do.
I slay.
Joss Whedon
#8. I think there's a possibility that comic book movies are getting a tiny bit better on the one hand because they're no longer made by executives, who are, you know, ninety-year-old bald tailors with cigars, going, 'The kids love this!'
Joss Whedon
#9. I am a great believer in found families and I'm not a great believer in blood.
Joss Whedon
#10. I believe the only reality is how we treat each other. The morality comes from the absence of any grander scheme, not from the presence of any grander scheme.
Joss Whedon
#11. Mal: We're still flying.
Simon: That's not much.
Mal: It's enough
- from Firefly
Joss Whedon
#12. You don't need red hooves to be loved!
Julia Joss
#13. One of my favourite sorts of actors ... the rat actor. The rat actor knows his job and gets it done.
Joss Whedon
#14. I want you to be as happy as I am."
"Trust me, that wouldn't be the case if I found myself shackled to Xav Benedict by a quirk of fate.
Joss Stirling
#15. I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance to tell a story, I would tell a story [well enough] that the person who gave me the chance would get their money back.
Joss Whedon
#16. Sarah Michelle Gellar's made some really good choices. She's had some bad breaks. She goes with the independent, interesting young filmmakers and then they get slammed, like 'Southland Tales.' I'm proud of what she's trying to do. It's hard.
Joss Whedon
#17. As far as I am concerned, the first episode of Buffy was the beginning of my career. It was the first time I told a story from start to finish the way I wanted.
Joss Whedon
#18. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.
Joss Whedon
#19. I hadn't hold out much hope for myself; if my counterpart existed, he'd be amazingly talented to make up for my shortcoming, and that would condemn me to a life of living in his shadows; or he'd match my feeble powers and be so weak that we'd barely sense each other.
Joss Stirling
#20. Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.
Joss Whedon
#21. I'm 19, I'm a girl, I'm very young, I like all sorts of different things, I like all sorts of different styles of music, I like all sorts of different styles of clothes, I like all sorts of different colors of hair.
Joss Stone
#22. You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can't all be Joss Whedon.
Kevin Smith
#23. It's ok to be sassy, but I'll never be trashy, it's ok to be nasty, but you got to keep it classy now
Joss Stone
#24. Why do you write strong female characters?
Because you're still asking me that question.
Joss Whedon
#25. Regret, Joss. Regret does awful things to a person.
Samantha Young
#26. I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up.
Joss Whedon
#27. I never pay a fortune for clothes.
Joss Stone
#28. I hate it when people talk about Buffy as being campy ... I hate camp, I don't enjoy dumb TV. I believe Aaron Spelling has single-handedly lowered SAT scores.
Joss Whedon
#29. I revised my opinion that the girl was timid. She appeared to have her giant well under control and a disturbing ability to know what I was feeling.
Joss Stirling
#30. What's plan b?'
'We all die now.'
'What's plan c?
Joss Whedon
#31. Are you all right?"
"Oh my god! I phased!"
"Are you all right?"
"Are you?"
"It was strange."
"I can't believe I phased just then! That's never ... it was totally your fault."
"I like to think so, yes."
"Tee hee.
Joss Whedon
#32. All right, Emma. You brought me in. You made your move. Just like I knew you would. A nice move. Now it's my turn.
Joss Whedon
#33. I feel so, so lucky. Lucky because of many things.
Joss Stone
#34. I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.
Joss Whedon
#35. I describe television as feminine and movies as masculine, in the sense that television wants to examine a problem from all sides and talk about it for a long time, and movies just want to hit the climax and then maybe have a smoke.
Joss Whedon
#36. My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I'd never been to a convention before that. He and a bunch of the 'Buffy' and 'Angel' writers were all going down in a big van and he invited me along.
Nathan Fillion
#37. Sometimes people are layered like that. There's something totally different underneath than what's on the surface. But sometimes, there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie.
Joss Whedon
#38. In public, you're Joss Butler. Cool, self-possessed. In bed, you're Jocelyn Butler - you're hot, babe. Uncontrolled. Needy. Sweet," he breathed. "I like that I know that. I don't like the fact that other men do too.
Samantha Young
#39. Everything I write tends to turn into a superhero team, even if I didn't mean for it to. I always start off wanting to be solitary, because a) it's simpler, and b) that isolation is something that I relate to as a storyteller. And then no matter what, I always end up with a team.
Joss Whedon
#40. My background was always more soulful pop. I was named after Ella Fitzgerald, and when I was a kid, I was listening to Lauryn Hill, Etta James, Joss Stone. For me, it was always about the voice.
Ella Eyre
#41. The recession is everywhere. We need to be heard. Wouldn't it be great if there could be more referendums so we could have regular voting on specific points?
Joss Stone
#42. It's like, 'You're not allowed to change. That's not fair. We like you like this.' But I don't. So let me expand and express myself.
Joss Stone
#43. To forgive is an act of compassion ... It's not done because people deserve it. It's done because they need it.
Joss Whedon
#44. Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.
Joss Whedon
#45. Life's a show and we all play a part
And when the music starts
We open up our hearts
Joss Whedon
#46. I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to become relatable.
Joss Whedon
#47. I wish more people would take the extraordinary talent they have and just let their id go because that's what we discovered. We discovered that the sillier we got, the more people believed that we were speaking from our hearts.
Joss Whedon
#48. What are we going to blow up?"
Morgan sighed happily and slapped joss on the back. " Kid ... you just said my seven favorite words.
Heather Brewer
#49. In my generation, there was a single girl given the strength and skill to fight the spread of darkness ... but in your generation, there are nearly two thousand with the powers of the slayer, and not all of them have chosen to use their newfound abilities conscientiously.
Joss Whedon
#50. I think 'Batman Begins' is certainly my favorite Batman movie I've seen.
Joss Whedon
#51. Always be yourself... unless you suck.
Joss Whedon
#52. People forget what it was like to be young, the stuff I'm expressing now is for the first time.
Joss Stone
#53. You get hurt, hurt 'em back. You get killed, walk it off.
Joss Whedon
#54. In production, in the first couple of weeks of production, that it was more like making an internet musical.
Joss Whedon
#55. I'm a big boy. I can take it.
You got into a fight.
I'm also stupid.
Joss Stirling
#56. How do you know your Colossus is the genuine article in the first place?
I read his mind.
I matched his DNA.
I smelled him.
I also did that.
Joss Whedon
#57. I would love to give you a more in-depth coherent explanation of my view of the soul, and if I had one I would. The soul and my concept of it are as ephemeral as anybody's, and possibly more so.
Joss Whedon
#58. Everything is a drug. Family, art, causes, new shoes ... We're all just tweaking our chem to avoid the void.
Joss Whedon
#59. Sorry, kid. Whedon got it wrong. Stakes don't kill vampires, they just give us heartburn.
Brian K. Vaughan
#60. Buffy the Vampire Slayer showed the whole world, and an entire sprawling industry, that writing monsters and demons and end-of-the-world is not hack-work, it can challenge the best. Joss Whedon raised the bar for every writer - not just genre/niche writers, but every single one of us.
Russell T. Davies
#61. People grow. It's okay to grow. Some people find that difficult to grasp.
Joss Stone
#62. I don't have a ton of enemies. I get along with people pretty well when I'm not annoying them to death.
Joss Whedon
#63. Good fantasy fiction: ... explores real human conditions through fantastic metaphors which universalize the characters' individual experiences to speak personally to us all.
Laura Resnick
#64. All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet
it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.
Joss Whedon
#65. I'm a huge fan of 'Buffy,' 'Angel' and 'Doctor Who.' People like Joss Whedon, Russell T. Davies, and Steven Moffat are really amazing about making you feel like you had a complete meal and yet leaving you hungry for more.
Andrew Kreisberg
#66. There's no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don't. It's that simple.
Joss Whedon
#67. I'm a very gentle man, not unlike Gandhi.
Joss Whedon
#68. Soulfinders can't be bad for each other - they are each other. We aren't complete apart.
Joss Stirling
#69. If you purchased the latest Joss Stone CD, what you're saying is that you're an employee of VH1.
Christian Finnegan
#70. I was never a games night guy, but at some point, social interaction starts to freak me out. So when there's a point, it's easier for me to see the people I love and hang out and try to have fun.
Joss Whedon
#71. The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.'
Joss Whedon
#72. Buffy loves Angel. He loves her. And I love Ho Hos.
Joss Whedon
#74. I'd been on 'Buffy' - that is an amazing community, the Joss Whedon fans.
Felicia Day
#75. I like to dip in and out of all sorts of different things. God, if I was asked to be in a show, like a real show, I would be so up for doing that.
Joss Stone
#76. I'm so pleased you're such a quick judge of character. You've got him tagged."
"Yep, toe-tagged, in the freezer, then buried six feet under.
Joss Stirling
#77. This is a sad, sad reflection on our times, when people must feed off
the carcasses of beloved stories from their youths-just because they
can't think of an original idea of their own, like I did with my
Avengers idea that I made up myself
Joss Whedon
#78. Forgiveness is like a great act of compassion. That it was done not because someone deserved it, but because they needed it.
Joss Whedon
#79. You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
Nathan Fillion
#80. We'll never make Firefly again, because that was a thing that existed and is now gone. And Serenity isn't Firefly, and whatever comes next won't be, either. But I would love to tell more stories of this universe and to hang out with these people on and off for the rest of my career.
Joss Whedon
#81. What I love most about icons is finding out what's behind them, exploring the price of their power.
Joss Whedon
#82. If I kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.
Joss Whedon
#83. Joss Whedon and all the writers of 'Iron Man' and 'Thor' found a way to keep Coulson saying something that keeps you guessing. I'm really lucky because a lot of people play agents and don't get nearly as much fun stuff to do.
Clark Gregg
#84. The master plan does not have a master plan. Television ultimately finds itself, and after it finds itself, it finds itself changing.
Joss Whedon
#85. Those drugs were either going to bring me nirvana or they were going to kill me. I was sure of it. And I was comfortable with it.
Joss Sheldon
#87. If I'm a tuning fork, you're the perfect A, making me hum.
Joss Stirling
#88. I'm a science fiction geek from birth - that's just who I am.
Joss Whedon
#89. This, children, is Kitty Pryde, who apparently feels the need to make a grand entrance.
I'm sorry. I was busy remembering to put all my clothes on.
Joss Whedon
#90. I respect the rules of TV, the rules of keeping things commercial and interesting and pop-y and fun.
Joss Whedon
#91. I'm crazy, Zed.' There, I'd admitted it.
'Uh-huh. And I'm crazy too -about you.
Joss Stirling
#92. I didn't watch a lot of American television growing up. I just liked to read a lot and watch movies - movies, movies, and more movies. My family used to make fun of me because I'd like every movie I saw.
Joss Whedon
#94. Think about it: the chances of meeting your other half are tiny. Most of us are doomed to knowing there's something better out there but we can't discover it.
Joss Stirling
#95. She can't see it, Joss. We're at the far end of the electromagnetic spectrum here, surrounded by gamma rays. I know school isn't your favorite thing, but honestly, don't you pay attention at all?
Wendy Mass
#96. I am not a fan of referencing your own work when it's in a different universe than what you're doing. That, to me, is a wink at the audience, and winking isn't actually cool when you're not, like, 10.
Joss Whedon
#97. He[Crystal's father] had found my height amusing, referring to me as his "little girl" at every opportunity even though I could see the bald patch on top of his head fringed by curls when we stood side by side.
Joss Stirling
#98. I love to write. I love it. I mean there's nothin in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I'm so very bad at it.
Joss Whedon
#99. I think there are spirits who are just too frail for the events life throws at them. Where do these people hide, and how do they survive?
Morag Joss
#100. I leave the world in terrible turmoil. I come back, same turmoil. Nothing at all different. Well, outfits are a little different ...
Joss Whedon
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