Joss Whedon quotes - page 10

I don't know a lot of show runners. I mean I met a lot of them in picket lines. I'm not part of a, like, secret society or pickup basketball game. As far as I'm concerned, pick-up basketball games are secret societies. They confuse me. I've never been a networker or I've never been very social. (Joss Whedon)
In TV, there's so much compromise, it does start to grate a bit. But if you're a writer or an actor, it really is the place to be. View quote
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That title, is one of the things I fought for. A lot of people said 'But it's stupid, and it's the title of a comedy movie, and people won't take it seriously,' and I'm sure there are some people who still don't. But for the most part, people do see that we really have a quality show. View quote
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I love a straightforward character. I am the guy who loves Cyclops on the 'X-Men', because he is square. View quote
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I still believe that even though 'The Empire Strikes Back' is better in innumerable ways than 'Star Wars,' 'Star Wars' wins. View quote
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'The Sixth Sense' is fine the second time around, but honestly, the first time around, it's dazzling. View quote
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Everything is so fragile. There's so much conflict, so much pain... You keep waiting for the dust to settle and then you realize this is it; the dust is your life going on. If happy comes along - that weird, unbearable delight that's actual happy - I think you have to grab it while you can. You take what you can get, 'cause it's here, and then... gone. View quote
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Don't just be yourself. Be all of your selves. View quote
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I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because it was all very strange to me. It wasn't like I got beat up, but the humiliation and isolation, and the existential 'God, I exist, and nobody cares' of being a teenager were extremely pronounced for me. View quote
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I don't actually have anything against anybody, unless their belief precludes everybody else's. I am an atheist and an absurdist and I have been for many years. I've actually taken a huge amount of flack for that. View quote
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Men not only don't get what's important about what women are capable of, but in fact they fear it, and envy it, and want to throw stones at it, because it's the thing they can't have. (Joss Whedon)
The more power that we have, the less human we are. View quote
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It's a fun thing to do, to put yourself in the service of something if you think you can add an interpretation. It's no different than any other storytelling. View quote
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The fact of the matter is fame predates even the age of cinema. There's always been fame, there's always been the caveman who's prettier or killed a bigger lion, or somebody started a story about a guy. View quote
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Politics, glamor, fame - they're all mixed up together, and they always have been. View quote
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The problem is I want to do everything. I really love all of it, and I love every aspect of movie-making and storytelling, and I love television, I love the Internet. I wish I had time to do absolutely everything. View quote
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Everybody who made it through adolescence is a hero. View quote
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The rules are very important in a horror movie. View quote
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One of my favourite sorts of actors...the rat actor. The rat actor knows his job and gets it done. View quote
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I believe we are the only sentient beings in the universe, and I believe that 500 years from now, we will still be the only sentient beings around. View quote
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Every subsection of liberalism is always busy attacking another subsection of liberalism, because god forbid they should all band together and actually fight for the cause. (Joss Whedon)
I am the immaculate embodiment of worlds. View quote
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I didn't know feminism was actually a thing until I left home and found out the country didn't run the way my mom's house did. View quote
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Try taking a stand on just one leg. You need to see both sides. View quote
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We don't need heroes so much as recognizing ourselves as heroes. View quote
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