Top 100 Joss Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Regret, Joss. Regret does awful things to a person.
Samantha Young
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. If you purchased the latest Joss Stone CD, what you're saying is that you're an employee of VH1.
Christian Finnegan
#11. I'd been on 'Buffy' - that is an amazing community, the Joss Whedon fans.
Felicia Day
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. Joss Whedon who created 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer,' 'Angel,' and all that ... he is a genius.
Christian Kane
#16. Taking in their expressions, I just knew it.
Logan had enlisted them.
The bugger.
"Oh dear God." I let my head fall back as if in supplication to an unmerciful deity. "Why me?"
Joss snorted. "Yeah, doesn't it suck when gorgeous, funny, loyal Scotsmen fall in love with us?
Samantha Young
#17. At last we've seen the first installment of Joss Whedon's new web series, 'Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog,' and it's sweeter than we'd ever imagined.
Annalee Newitz
#18. Joss's ears perked up. He loved libraries. Nowhere else in the world felt so safe and homey. Nowhere else smelled like books and dust and happy solitude quite like a library did.
Heather Brewer
#19. I picked up the Joss Stone album, Josh Groban, and the new Norah Jones. I love, love, love Norah.
Deborah Cox
#20. So, I'm going to go over on Angel. Joss is just going to find a way to keep me bleaching my hair, which is fine.
James Marsters
#21. Joss Whedon said to me, 'If you think you are taking over the show, you have got another think coming.' He said, 'You are here only because I don't want to kill a villain off every week. I want my villains to be more interesting and multifaceted and then die.'
James Marsters
#22. I always said that, when I grow up, I want to be like Joss Whedon : I want to have my own world.
Amber Benson
#23. I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.
J. August Richards
#24. I've kind of learned this about Joss Whedon. Never say never. I've learned that. I also have another rule about Joss Whedon. Never say no. Just ... whatever Joss Whedon wants to do, just do it.
Nathan Fillion
#25. Team Inara, commence Operation Joss-Whedon-Is-A-God.
John Ringo
#26. Ugh." Joss strode by them. "You men need to grow up. Mothers have sex lives too. How do you think you were born?" "Like Jesus," Alistair said straight-faced. "And no other fucker is telling me different.
Samantha Young
#27. Joss often thought of herself in male terms when analyzing her role in the family business system, since there didn't seem to be any available roles or jobs for women.
Suzanne Stroh
#28. Joss was lonely kid who thought that if he could just crack the code, people would understand what an awesome person he was and love him for it. As Buffy executive producer and Angel cocreator David Greenwalt said, 'If JossWhedon had had one good day in high school, we wouldn't be here'.
Amy Pascale
#29. To me, Joss Whedon is a god. I'm just a huge fan of his work; I love his work on TV.
Jonathan Nolan
#30. In the future, when Joss Whedon and I are best friends and hanging out together in my tree fort, I hope Neil Gaiman comes over too.
Patrick Rothfuss
#31. I have six brothers, so I definitely was aware of Marvel more than I was of princesses, but once you're cast in a Joss Whedon Marvel show, you go and become even more of a bigger fan. You do your homework.
Chloe Bennet
#32. Why are you so surprised? Joss Whedon is a god. I never would have made it through med school without Netflix and Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
"Buffy?" Wren said the name like she was talking about one of her best friends. "All six seasons?
Stephanie Fournet
#33. I think like Joss Whedon [Stephen Moffat] often mistakes 'empowered' for 'strong in exactly the way I personally want to sleep with
Joseph Fink
#34. Joss Whedon is a hero of mine, and what he's done for women in film and television, particularly when it comes to writing female roles that would typically go to a man, is awesome.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#35. According to Joss [Whedon], "TV is a question, movies are an answer.
Amy Pascale
#36. Let's go eat turkey before I beat the crap put of my cousin.
The way he said it, Vlad wasn't sure if Henry wanted to eat instead of beating Joss to a pulp, or if he just didn't want to do it on an empty stomach.
Heather Brewer
#37. The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.
Tammin Sursok
#38. And, though there should be a world of difference between the smile of a man and the bared fangs of a wolf, with Joss Merlyn they were one and the same.
Daphne Du Maurier
#39. The inimitable stories of Tong-King never have any real ending, and this one, being in his most elevated style, has even less end than most of them. But the whole narrative is permeated with the odour of joss-sticks and honourable high-mindedness, and the two characters are both of noble birth.
Ernest Bramah
#40. Henry held up his taco- formerly Vlad's- and grinned. " Little known fact, gentlemen. Tacos are the food of genius."
pg248 Henry to Vlad & Joss
Heather Brewer
#43. I can't spend too much time in the forests because I invariably leave traces-ridiculously happy trees, basically, since I'm the last Druid in the world and they tend to geek out like Joss Whedon fans when I show up.
Kevin Hearne
#44. Dylan, while he is in the shower and he and Joss are only seperated by the curtain and his invisibility:
Dylan: "Maybe if you would come in here and scrub my back it would speed things up."
Joss: "I'm not invisible."
Dylan: "I know this.
Susan Bischoff
#45. A crease found it's way onto Joss's forehead. Because he was certain that Sirus was wrong. Girls were more complicated than boys. Girls communicated in a language that only they understood. And Joss wasn't sure at all that he would ever understand them.
Heather Brewer
#46. And Joss, Gregg, Renner, and Hiddleston confirmed that there was "some Avengers affinity" for the video game Dance Dance Revolution. But
Amy Pascale
#47. I remember the first job I ever had was working on 'Firefly,' and I was talking to Joss Whedon, and he was asking if I was going to Comic-Con. He called me a loser for not going that first year.
Michael McMillian
#48. Is Buffy the Vampire Slayer her personal savior?
Because that would bum you out?
The slaying part would, yeah. Not the Joss part. We all love Joss.
Chloe Neill
#49. I don't think as big and as creative as Joss.
Julie Benz
#50. JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.
Ambrose Bierce
#51. Braden, Ellie, and Adam came in and took their usual table directly across from us so that Braden and Joss could screw each other with their eyes.
Samantha Young
#52. We need time to relax and enjoy ourselves too, no matter how dark the story. The occasional humorous moment helps with that. That's one of the things that Joss Whedon excels at in his storytelling.
Patrick Rothfuss
#53. The Aphrodite's yours, Joss. Take care of her for me."
"Aye, I will." A knowing look passed between them. "I'll look after the ship, too.
Tessa Dare
#54. I gave Joss Whedon and Judd Apatow their first writing jobs, as well as many other untried writers who went on to great success.
Roseanne Barr
#55. was then that Joss saw the second scaling hook and rope ten feet away.
Carrier Slocomb
#56. The notion that every choice you make means that other possibilities are eliminated forever -- as a kid, I found that terrifying,' Joss recalled. 'As an adult, I still find it scary.
Amy Pascale
#57. Are you implying that he's lying? You low-level son of a pig. I wouldn't have brought you here if I'd known you were going to insult us. Joss' fist pounded the table, hard.
Chanda Hahn
#58. Before you, Joss, I'd sooner die than accept a ride from a chauffeur.
Suzanne Stroh
#59. Never sit at a table you can't walk away from." -Joss Whedon
Violet Blue
#60. I gave myself a good talking to. I could not turn into an inept idiot, because some guy hadn't accepted my apology ... To hell with him. I was Joss Butler. I took shit from no Man! -Chapter 16
Samantha Young
#61. But if you, as an independent filmmaker or a 'serious' filmmaker, think you put more love into your characters than the Russo Brothers do Captain America, or Joss Whedon does the Hulk, or I do a talking raccoon, you are simply mistaken.
James Gunn
#62. I think we can fairly conclude that writer-director Joss Whedon didn't make 'The Avengers' for me.
Steve Erickson
#63. The concepts of Joss are pure, and express attitudes and technical ideals.
Cliff Shaw
#64. Try taking a stand on just one leg. You need to see both sides.
Joss Whedon
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.
Joss Whedon
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. I am a great believer in found families and I'm not a great believer in blood.
Joss Whedon
#72. 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
#73. Mal: We're still flying.
Simon: That's not much.
Mal: It's enough
- from Firefly
Joss Whedon
#74. You don't need red hooves to be loved!
Julia Joss
#75. One of my favourite sorts of actors ... the rat actor. The rat actor knows his job and gets it done.
Joss Whedon
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.
Joss Whedon
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. Why do you write strong female characters?
Because you're still asking me that question.
Joss Whedon
#86. I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up.
Joss Whedon
#87. I never pay a fortune for clothes.
Joss Stone
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. What's plan b?'
'We all die now.'
'What's plan c?
Joss Whedon
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. I feel so, so lucky. Lucky because of many things.
Joss Stone
#94. I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.
Joss Whedon
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. To forgive is an act of compassion ... It's not done because people deserve it. It's done because they need it.
Joss Whedon
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