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Scooby Snacks: Buffy quotes

"Actors James Marsters and Keira Knightley have been named as the ideal pairing for Romeo and Juliet in a poll for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Marsters, of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame, and Love Actually star Knightley were picked by RSC website visitors. Other choices for Romeo included Ewan McGregor, Orlando Bloom and Johnny Depp, while Juliet voters also went for Nicole Kidman and Scarlett Johansson." - BBC News Online, 22.4.04

"It was very complimentary actually. I didn't realize how popular Buffy was overseas. It is really flattering. I found it very difficult to walk around in the Louvre. I was like "Why are these people videotaping me and not the art?" But it was very sweet. It was very interesting meeting people from all around the world". - Michelle Trachtenburg

"It is easy to mock the whole idea of role models and what children pick up in the media. But if we believe that television can be a powerful influence on young lives, and who doesn't, then having a balance of 'strong' and 'gentle' characters of both sexes is important. "So, I can't get excited enough to insist that Postman Pat is accompanied on his rounds by Postwoman Patricia in the interests of fairness and justice. But more power to the elbow of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a strong fictional female character if there was ever one." - David Cox, Chief Inspector of Schools, in a speech to mark International Women's Day 8.4.04

"My aunt and uncle used to do a puppet theatre and they were scary puppets. On my sixth birthday they did something for my birthday and I was terrified" - Tony Head, Live and Kicking webchat 2.6.01

"This guy my friend knew didn't have a date for his prom, and she said, 'Oh
Amber will go with you!' So I ended up going to the prom with someone I'd
never met before. Not exactly a dream date but we wound up having a great
time in the end." - Amber Benson

" I was always doing an adult's job as a child, and that made me an outsider.
I think there's a very interesting relationship between Buffy and me in that
Buffy didn't know whether to go fight vampires or go to the prom. Well, my
prom was the same night as the Emmys. I had those dilemmas on a different
scale." - Sarah Michelle Gellar, TheWB website's "Prom stories" feature 5.01

"Christopher and Paulie Walnuts get lost in the New Jersey woods. [This Sopranos episode is] right up there with Buffy's dealing with her dead mum as the best episode of any TV show ever" - Jonathon Bernstein's Aerial View of America, The Guardian Guide 16-22.6.01

"I'm not up on post-Buffy vampirology" - Ian Hislop, Newsnight Review, 2002

Gareth Mclean's TV reviews in the Guardian often make use of Buffy quotes - so the return of 24, for example, speculates that Palmer's daughter will be the "big bad"