James Marsters Quotes & Sayings

I love to work. When I was a kid, I would invite my friends over to play, then I would take them over to a recycling plant and we would haul glass all day. They hated me for this, but I thought it was fun. — James Marsters

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

I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music. — James Marsters

Clowns make me ... Think. — James Marsters

I don't have a computer - I don't like to get into it that much 'cause it can screw with your head a little. — James Marsters

In Europe they call geeks 'smart people,' and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn't value intelligence enough; so I am very proud in saying that I am a geek. — James Marsters

I think truth is weirder than fiction. — James Marsters

Always communicate no matter how hard it is to tell someone something's wrong. It's worse not to talk about it. I learn this every few years. The truth hurts for 3 days. Lack of truth hurts your whole life. — James Marsters

I'm a psychopath, but I don't have a problem with that. — James Marsters

Being a hero doesn't mean you succeed in saving the day. It just means you tried. — James Marsters

It's just the absolute bomb. Ghost in the Shell was really good, it's a little bit more recent. — James Marsters

'Dragonball' is the coolest television cartoon in the last 50,000 years. — James Marsters

My personal philosophy would be don't whine, don't let opportunities pass you by, be willing to work hard, and remember that you don't know as much as you think you do, ever. — James Marsters

I love to sweat. — James Marsters

Forties are good! I'm thinking with my brain now, which is a lot more clear, and women seem to appreciate that. It's a wonderful decade where you're in control of yourself but the women are still interested. — James Marsters

Speed Racer is good to cut your teeth on, but if anyone has not seen Akira, go get it. — James Marsters

I don't know much about the Internet, I'm afraid. — James Marsters

Anne Rice really doesn't explore vampires as hideous monsters of the night, they're ancient creatures with a heart. And they want to be loved and they want connections just like we do. — James Marsters

I don't know if any of us are mature enough to handle the brutal honesty of what's inside other people's heads. — James Marsters

I patterned the accent after this guy I was in a play with, but that was three years ago. Now I'm listening to Tony Head (Giles in Buffy), who sounds kind of like Spike in real life. It's much more tough-guy talk in real life. His accent (as Giles) is just as fake as mine. His is nice and gritty, but it's not North London. I'm always afraid that I'm morphing over into Tony Head, wherever he's from. — James Marsters

I tend to be emotional when ... I breathe. — James Marsters

Yes, we were looking for a Faith spin-off, but then Faith backed down. Eliza got a really wonderful offer over on Fox in a show, and, for reasons I didn't talk to her about, she decided to go there, and everyone respects that. — James Marsters

I'm really interested with the way light plays on images and one of the artists that really reawakened my interest in comic books was Frank Miller and his treatment of Daredevil, and then Wolverine and, of course, Batman. — James Marsters

I like the 'Science Channel,' the 'Discovery Channel,' I like 'Discovery Times,' which is a fabulous hybrid of the 'New York Times' and 'Discovery Channel.' Maybe I'm just an old man, but I like to watch that stuff. — James Marsters

It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves. — James Marsters

I'm just getting to know myself. I'm no wherwhere near to being concise about it yet. I can't define myself. Wait a minute - I'm angry, I'm funny and I'm trying. — James Marsters

Andy [Hallett] was a real man - you can tell an adult by how they deal with pain or adversity. Andy's eyeballs gave him searing pain all day every day because of the contacts they used. He was every moment a gentlemen; laughing and joking, wiping the tears from his eyes. — James Marsters

I was uncomfortable with smoking too much because a lot of young kids watch and I didn't want to make that cool. — James Marsters

I am a lucky regional theater actor who happened to get a good role. — James Marsters

I'm quite comfortable with being a geek. I've been a geek since high school. — James Marsters

When you are a hero you are always running to save someone, sweating, worried and guilty. When you are a villain you are just lurking in the shadows waiting for the hero to pass by. Then you pop them in the head and go home ... piece of cake. — James Marsters

Tough guy Spike was always the funnest, but I'm most proud of the more recent stuff, the last season, I think. — James Marsters

For me, chemistry is trust. If you have trust you can risk together. It's like a partnership and it means you can have fun together while jumping off a mountain. I have not always been able to get good trust with an acting partner. One of the best was Juliet Landau; I always felt safe with her. Chemistry has nothing to do with physical attraction - that often gets in the way. — James Marsters

One of the best things about humans is we recognize patterns, so we get things like science, music, philosophy. One of the worst things is that we see patterns that are not there so we get things like racism, homophobia and Jerry Falwell. — James Marsters

It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on. — James Marsters

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