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Joss Whedon Quotes

Total quotes: 121
“Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn’t suck.”
— Joss Whedon, Once More, with Feeling(Buffy soundtrack)
Tagged: Life, life advice, Living, Living A Balanced Life
“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, The Whedon watch
Tagged: writer, Passion, Writing, Escapism, Exploration, Bravery
“I may be dead, but I’m still pretty.”
— Buffy Summers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 1: Prophecy Girl
Tagged: dead, Pretty
“Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.”
— Joss Whedon, Joss Whedon
Tagged: Want, Need, Necessity, Desire
“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.”
— Joss Whedon,
Tagged: Love, Acceptance, admiration, Understanding
“My life happens to, on occasion, suck beyond the telling of it. Sometimes more than I can handle. And it’s not just mine. Every single person down there is ignoring your pain because they’re too busy with their own. The beautiful ones. The popular ones. The guys that pick on you. Everyone. If you could hear what they were feeling. The loneliness. The confusion. It looks quiet down there. It’s not. It’s deafening.”
— Joss Whedon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer S3E18
Tagged: Pain, Sadness, Loneliness, Problems
“I’m no good with words. Don’t…don’t use ’em much myself.”
— Jayne Cobb, Firefly, Season 1: Jaynestown
Tagged: Words, Loquaciousness, Silent Type
“What you plan and what takes place ain’t ever exactly been similar.”
— Jayne Cobb, Firefly, Season 1: Serenity
Tagged: Realism, Planning
“Mal: Whatever happens, remember I love you.

Zoë: Sir?

Mal: Because you're my wife.

Zoë: Right. Sir. Honey.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Love, Marriage, Wife
“Sheriff Bourne: We had some, uh, unrelated trouble. His story had kind of an odor to it.

Inara Serra: Yes, it's not the only thing about him that does.”
— Inara Serra, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: odor, body odor
“That sounds like the Alliance. Unite all the planets under one rule so that everybody can be interfered with or ignored equally.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Unity
“Tell you what I think. I figure that fella we run into did everyone on board. Killed 'em all. Then he decided to take a swim, see how fast his blood would boil out his ears.”
— Jayne Cobb, Firefly, Season 1: Bushwhacked
Tagged: Murder, blood boiling
“Jarvis: [Thor has just thrown a thunderbolt on Iron Man] Power to four-hundred percent capacity.

Tony Stark: How about that?”
— Tony Stark / Iron Man, The Avengers
Tagged: Power, thunderbolt
“[to Bruce Banner] You really have got a lid on it, haven't you? What's your secret? Mellow jazz? Bongo drums? Huge bag of weed?”
— Tony Stark / Iron Man, The Avengers
Tagged: Secret, Jazz, Weed, bongo drums
“Man is stronger by far than woman...yet only woman can create a child. Does that seem right to you?”
— Jubal Early, Firefly, Season 1: Objects in Space
Tagged: Man, Woman, strength, Childbirth
“The next time you decide to stab me in the back, have the guts to do it to my face.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: Ariel
Tagged: Guts, Backstabbing, Bravery
“It’s not embarrassing to be a virgin. It’s simply one’s state of being.”
— Inara Serra, Firefly, Season 1: Jaynestown
Tagged: virgin, Virginity, Being Yourself, embarrassing
“You couldn’t buy an invite with a diamond the size of a testicle.”
— Badger, Firefly, Season 1: Shindig
Tagged: Invite, Diamond, Testicle
“ Sir, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.”
— Zoë Washburne, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Stupid, insults, Anacephalic
“The way it is, is the way it is. We gotta deal with what’s in front of us.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: Serenity
Tagged: Practical, Pragmatic, Reality
“I'm not a Space Ranger. I'm just a toy. A stupid, little, insignificant toy.”
— Buzz Lightyear (voice), Toy Story
Tagged: space ranger, insignificant
“One minute you're defending the whole galaxy, and, suddenly, you find yourself sucking down Darjeeling with Marie Antoinette... and her little sister.”
— Buzz Lightyear (voice), Toy Story
Tagged: darjeeling, Marie Antoinette
“Buzz Lightyear: This is an intergalactic emergency. I need to commandeer your vessel to Sector 12. Who's in charge here?

All Aliens: [pointing up] The clawwwwwwwww!”
— Buzz Lightyear (voice), Toy Story
Tagged: Emergency, claw
“Buzz Lightyear: I am Buzz Lightyear; I come in peace.

Rex: [shaking Buzz Lightyear's hand] Oh, I'm so glad you're not a dinosaur!”
— Buzz Lightyear (voice), Toy Story
Tagged: i come in peace, Dinosaur
“My estimation is that...every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of a son of a bitch or another.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: Jaynestown
Tagged: Statue, Son of a Bitch
“[Jayne takes out Crow with leg shot]

Mal: Nice shot!

Jayne: [sitting on the floor, drugged] I was aiming for his head.”
— Jayne Cobb, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: shooting, Missing
“Zoë: Jayne?

Jayne: Hey, I didn't fight in no war. Best o' luck, though.”
— Jayne Cobb, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: War
“Woody: [screams] This is the part where we blow up!

Buzz Lightyear: Not today!”
— Buzz Lightyear (voice), Toy Story
Tagged: blow up
“Buzz Lightyear: [in Sid's backpack, approaching his home] Sheriff, I can see your indwelling from here. You're almost home.

Alien: Nirvana is coming, the mystic portal awaits.”
— Buzz Lightyear (voice), Toy Story
Tagged: Nirvana, mystic portal
“Woody: [trying to get Buzz Lightyear into Molly's stroller] It's a special spaceship, I just saw it.

Buzz Lightyear: You mean it has hyperdrive?”
— Buzz Lightyear (voice), Toy Story
Tagged: stroller, spaceship, hyperdrive
“I want to take comfort in you, and I know it will cost me my soul, and a part of me doesn’t care.”
— Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 3: Amends
Tagged: Comfort, Soul
“Thor: Do not touch me again!

Tony Stark: Then don't take my stuff.”
— Tony Stark / Iron Man, The Avengers
Tagged: don't touch me, don't steal from me
“Thor: I have unfinished business with Loki.

Clint Barton: Yeah? Get in line.”
— Thor Odinson, The Avengers
Tagged: Unfinished Business, get in line
“Thor: I thought humans were more evolved than this.

Nick Fury: Excuse me, did WE come to YOUR planet and blow stuff up?”
— Thor Odinson, The Avengers
Tagged: humans, Explosions, evolved
“[Loki awakens to find the Avengers staring down at him]
If it's all the same to you, I'll have that drink now.”
— Loki, The Avengers
Tagged: Drink
“Tracey: Do you think I’m stupid?

Malcolm: In every way possible!”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: The Message
Tagged: insults, Stupid
“Inara: Mal, you don’t have to die alone.


Malcolm: Everybody dies alone.”
— Tim Minear, Joss Whedon, Firefly, Season 1: Out of Gas
Tagged: Death, Alone, Dying Alone
“You can’t open the book of my life and jump in the middle. Like woman, I’m a mystery.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: Our Mrs. Reynolds
Tagged: Mystery, Book of Life
“Inara: Mal, if you're being a gentleman, I may die of shock.

Mal: Have you got time to do my hair?

Inara: Out!”
— Inara Serra, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Gentleman, Hairdo
“Niska: Oh, you do not like I kill this man?

Mal: Oh no, I'm sure he was a...very bad person.”
— Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly, Season 1: The Train Job
Tagged: Murder
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