Joss Whedon Quotes

If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.

We're on speaking terms today. I say, Maybe we should hang out with the boys, and you shake your head. I want to spend time with you, you say. If we're still good, next week maybe. That's the most we can hope for. Nothing thrown, nothing said that we might remember for years. You watch me while you put a brush through your hair. Each strand that breaks is as long as my arm. You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what can I tell you?

All that I am hangs by a thread tonight

Performances are always more interesting to me when something is at stake.

I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening.

My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.

The Nation trembled on the brink. Events moved with such speed that it was necessary to decide to act on the instant, as each successive crisis arose.

You are never quite sure how it will go, and even after a thousand games or so, that tense feeling is still there.

Uncertainty helps keep actors on edge.

Anything can happen in a cup final; that's what everybody likes about them.

In football you can never know. You relax and in one second it causes pressure.

We're all trying to figure out what's next, what's best for our families, what's best for ourselves, and there's a certain sort of comfort in knowing that you're not in it by yourself.

Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.

I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.

Life is often like that, the best balancing on a knife edge with the worst.

I told Ersken, "Lately it's been like living on the knife's edge, never knowing which side I'll fall off on" Ersken clapped me on the shoulder as we stepped into the street. "Cheer up, Beka. Maybe you were going to fall off that razor's edge before, but not today," he said, as good humored as always. "Today we're doing to jump.

You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies.

Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?

Everything seemed good, but I knew it had the potential to be awful.

I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.

A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.

You check into the hotel and see you're booked for seven nights. But you know you might be leaving in a day or two. It's exciting for the fans. But you're on edge. And you're on edge the whole round.

[My job is] a very high trapeze act, frequently with no net.

Gamsters and race-horses never last long.

Whoever has not felt the danger of our times palpitating under his hand, has not really penetrated to the vitals of destiny, he has merely pricked the surface.