James Marsters
James Wesley Marsters is an actor, best known for playing the popular character Spike, a vampire, in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spinoff series Angel.
BUFFY
What are you doing here? Five words or less.
Spike counts the words on his fingers.
SPIKE
Out... for... a... walk... bitch.
Buffy Episode #83: "No Place Like Home"
I think he got away from that by becoming a vampire and that's why he was so keen to stop being human, but he's getting back to being human now.
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As Spike
- [Angel has just saved Rachel from a violently abusive boyfriend, while Spike watches — and narrates — from the shadows.]
- Spike [as Rachel]: How can I thank you, you mysterious, black-clad hunk of a night thing?
- Spike [as Angel]: No need, little lady, your tears of gratitude are enough for me. You see, I was once a bad-ass vampire, but love and a pesky curse defanged me. Now I'm just a big, fluffy puppy with bad teeth.
- [Rachel steps closer to Angel; Angel steps back, warding her off with his hands.]
- Spike [as Angel]: No, not the hair! Never the hair!
- Spike [as Rachel]: But there must be some way I can show my appreciation.
- Spike [as Angel]: No — helping those in need's my job. And working up a load of sexual tension, and prancing away like a magnificent poof is truly thanks enough!
- Spike [as Rachel]: I understand. I have a nephew who's gay, so...
- Spike [as Angel]: Say no more. Evil's still afoot... and I'm almost out of that Nancy-boy hair gel that I like so much. Quickly, to the Angel-mobile — AWAY!
- Spike [as himself]: Go on with you. Play the big, strapping hero while you can. You have a few surprises coming your way. The Ring of Amara, a visit from your old pal Spike, and — oh, yeah — your gruesome, horrible death.
- In the Dark, Angel, season 1
- [The lights in the Wolfram & Hart elevator suddenly go out.]
- Spike: [whispering] I know what this is. [shouting] YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME TO HELL, PAVAYNE!
- [Emergency lights come on and an alarm sounds.]
- Spike: Oh. Well, that's just something I say... when, uh... it gets dark.
- Lineage, Angel, season 5
- Spike: You were there? Oh, please! If every vampire who said he was at the crucifixion was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock. I was actually at Woodstock. That was a weird gig. I fed off a flower person, and I spent the next six hours watching my hand move.
- School Hard, Buffy, season 2
- Spike: You've got Slayer problems. That's a bad piece of luck. Do you know what I find works real good with Slayers? Killing them.
- School Hard, Buffy, season 2
- No fair going into the ring unless he tags you first.(To Dru when Giles tries to kill Angel)
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- Passion, Buffy, season 2
BUFFY
What are you doing here? Five words or less.
Spike counts the words on his fingers.
SPIKE
Out... for... a... walk... bitch.
Buffy Episode #83: "No Place Like Home"
Lyrics
- "Rest In Peace"
:Spike:'
- I died
- So many years ago
- But you can make me feel, like it isn't so
- Why you've come to be with me
- I think I finally know
- Mmmmm
- You're scared ashamed of what you feel
- You can't tell the ones you love
- You know they couldn't deal
- Whisper in a dead man's ear doesn't make it real
- That's great, but I don't wanna play
- 'Cause being with you touches me
- More than I can say
- Since I'm only dead to you I'm sayin' stay away
- And let me rest in peace
- Let me rest in peace
- Let me get some sleep
- Let me take my love and bury it
- In a hole six foot deep
- I can lay my body down but I can't find my sweet release
- So let me rest in peace
- You know...
- You gotta willing slave
- And you just love to play the thought
- That you might misbehave
- So till you do I'm tellin' you
- Stop visitin' my grave
- And let me rest in peace
- I know, I should go
- But I follow you like a man possed
- There's a traitor here, beneath my breast
- And it hurts me more than you've ever guessed
- If my heart could beat, it would break my cheast
- But I can see... you're unimpressed
- So leave me be...
- And let me rest in peace
- Let me get some sleep
- Let me take my love and bury it
- In a hole six foot deep
- I can lay my body down but I can't find my sweet release
- So let me rest in peace
- Why won't you... let me rest in peace
- One baby, two, maybe three more years
- You'll be a full hot baby, have all your curves
- And here's a little taste of irony
- You'll be a too-hot baby, too good for me
- Lyrics for Dangerous http://www.ghost-of-the-robot.net/lyrics_dangerous.php
- She's an angel
- But she can't see it
- She's got wings,
- But she can't feel 'em
- She's an angel
- But she can't see it
- But she's flying above me every day
- Every day of my life
- Lyrics for Angel, http://www.ghost-of-the-robot.net/lyrics_angel.php
- We can find ourselves a quiet room
- And let our hands run free
- You can tickle underneath my arm
- All the way down to behind my bended knee
- Lyrics for Runaway, http://www.ghost-of-the-robot.net/lyrics_runaway.php
- You'll find yourself a man.
- He's swears he'll protect you
- From the dark.
- Lyrics for This Town, http://www.ghost-of-the-robot.net/lyrics_thistown.php
- I get blinded when she opens the door
- It's like looking into the sun, you know
- Lyrics for Smile, http://www.ghost-of-the-robot.net/lyrics_smile.php
- I'll find another one
- No I don't care
- [Spoken] Maybe she's got a best friend man I dunno...
- Lyrics for Katie, http://www.ghost-of-the-robot.net/lyrics_katie.php
- The way you look at me I can tell what a kiss brings
- You make me want to be BAD... YEAH
- Lyrics for Bad, http://www.ghost-of-the-robot.net/lyrics_bad.php
Interviews
- Spike's was a very simple philosophy when we met him. I think that now he is forming one, and I think that the best thing that he has come up with so far is that a lot of being human is about degradation and pain and humiliation. I think he's starting to understand that for the first time.
I think he got away from that by becoming a vampire and that's why he was so keen to stop being human, but he's getting back to being human now.
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- 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 on Life After Buffy
- I have turned roles down because they are rapists. It's something I don't even want to watch. If I even click on it on TV, I have to click it off or I'll put my foot through the screen... What you see on that screen is just my terror at having to do that scene.
- James Marsters on Life After Buffy, on the rape scene in Buffy the Vampire Slayer "Seeing Red"
- he (Spike) probably fell in love with Buffy when he first saw her, but didn't admit it to himself because he was already in love with Dru...
- James Marsters, 2002
- I'm a psychopath, but I don't have a problem with that.
- [Spike] is a sadist and he is never happier than when he is hurting people or killing people, but he is truly, sincerely, deeply in love with Drusilla.
- 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.