Joss Whedon > Quotes

“Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”
― Joss Whedon

“People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.”
― Joss Whedon

“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ”
― Joss Whedon

“I'll take crazy over stupid any day.”
― Joss Whedon

“Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead.”
― Joss Whedon

“You're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.”
― Joss Whedon

“Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.”
― Joss Whedon

“Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.”
― Joss Whedon

“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

“Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.”
― Joss Whedon

“Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.”
― Joss Whedon

“I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide until it goes away.”
― Joss Whedon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

“There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that.”
― Joss Whedon

“Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now.”
― Joss Whedon

“Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.”
― Joss Whedon

“There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called 'fan fiction'.”
― Joss Whedon

“Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don’t care, I’m still free
You can’t take the sky from me
Take me out to the black
Tell them I ain’t comin’ back
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can’t take the sky from me
There’s no place I can be
Since I found Serenity
But you can’t take the sky from me…”
― Joss Whedon, Serenity: Those Left Behind

“The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.”
― Joss Whedon

“Loneliness leads to nothing good, only detachment. And sometimes the people who most need to reach out are the people least capable of it.”
― Joss Whedon

“The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.”
― Joss Whedon

“Half of writing history is hiding the truth”
― Joss Whedon

“Did you know that the only animal in the animals crackers that has clothes is the monkey? So, I'm wondering, do the other cookie animals feel sorta ripped? Like, is the hippo going,'Hey, man, where are my pants? I have my hippo dignity!'And you know the monkey's just,'I mock you with my monkey pants!”
― Joss Whedon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

“Oh, poor Watcher. Did your life pass before your eyes — 'Cuppa tea, cuppa tea... almost got shagged... cuppa tea'?”
― Joss Whedon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

“When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.”
― Joss Whedon

“To read makes our speaking English good.”
― Joss Whedon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

“All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause – there are few unworthy ones. And nudge yourself past the brink of tacit support to action. Once a month, once a year, or just once...Even just learning enough about a subject so you can speak against an opponent eloquently makes you an unusual personage. Start with that. Any one of you would have cried out, would have intervened, had you been in that crowd in Bashiqa. Well thanks to digital technology, you’re all in it now.”
― Joss Whedon

“If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.”
― Joss Whedon

“If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.”
― Joss Whedon

“Sometimes people are layered like that. There’s something totally different underneath than what’s on the surface.'

And sometimes there’s a third even deeper level and that’s the same as the top surface one.'

Huh?'

Like with pie.”
― Joss Whedon

“This is the captain we have a little problem with our entry sequence so we may experiance some slight turbulance, then explode.”
― Joss Whedon, Serenity: The Official Visual Companion

“Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns.”
― Joss Whedon

“Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.”
― Joss Whedon

“You're kidding ... what a crazy random happenstance!”
― Joss Whedon

“I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar.”
― Joss Whedon, Firefly: The Official Companion Volume One

“In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer.”
― Joss Whedon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

“We have done the impossible. And that makes us mighty.”
― Joss Whedon

“Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.”
― Joss Whedon

“Also, I can kill you with my brain.”
― Joss Whedon, Firefly: The Official Companion Volume One

“Doctor, I'm taking your sister under my protection if any thing happens to her I swear to you I will get very choked up. Honestly there might be tears.”
― Joss Whedon, Firefly: The Official Companion Volume One

“Don't give me songs, give me something to sing about!”
― Joss Whedon, Buffy The Vampire Slayer

“Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.”
― Joss Whedon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

“If nothing we do in this world matters, then the only thing that matters is what we do.”
― Joss Whedon, Angel: After the Fall, Volume 1

“Way I remember it, albatross was a ship's good luck...'til some idiot killed it. Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint.”
― Joss Whedon, Serenity: The Official Visual Companion

“I cannot abide useless people.”
― Joss Whedon

“They hurt you. You hurt 'em back. Or maybe it is the other way around. Whatever. Someday you might find a way to forgive each other. But it won't be like it used to 'cause that pain never really goes away.”
― Joss Whedon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 2: No Future for You

“Two things that matter to me. Emotional resonance and rocket launchers.”
― Joss Whedon

“I personally don't think it's possible to come up with a crazier plan."
We attack the Mayor with hummus."
I stand corrected."
Just keeping things in perspective.”
― Joss Whedon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

“Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction."

We live in a space ship, dear.”
― Joss Whedon, Firefly: The Official Companion Volume Two

“Buffy Anne Summers
1981-2001
Beloved sister
Devoted Friend
She saved the world
A lot”
― Joss Whedon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

“There are some things I can just smell. It's like a 6th sense."
"Well, actually, that would be one of the five.”
― Joss Whedon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Script Book, Season Two, Volume 4