I think that there are just people who are hurting other people, sometimes for the best of intentions and sometimes for the worst. In different times in my life, I've been the hero and I've been the villain. I also think that we're all evil sometimes.

James Marsters

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The difference between Pride Jaguar and the Drago-Kazov? A Jaguar will stab you in the back to gain an advantage. a Dragan will stab you just to see if his knife is sharp.

James Marsters

knives differences pride

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.

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smart europe thinking

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

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rocks passion country

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

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hard-work opportunity philosophy

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.

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never-quit angel hair

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

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myopic house art

I'm not an ad-libber. If I'm asked to ad-lib, I can ad-lib forever and it's really fun to do that, but I find that well-written scripts are put together very carefully. Once you start to ad-lib and add words to sentences, there's a slacking that happens. When it's good writing, it's taut. I'm not judging people who do ad-lib.

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writing fun people

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.

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minutes waiting trying

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

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honesty mature people

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.

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hurt matter years

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.

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patterns racism philosophy

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

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smoking watches kids

I love anybody who has convictions enough to make mistakes because only people who make mistakes get into enough trouble to be called drama, I think.

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mistake drama thinking

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.

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adversity pain real

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.'

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want interesting thinking

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

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saving hero mean

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.

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light artist book

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

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psychopath problem

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

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making-money band writing

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.

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computer causes littles