Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series)

As You Were (2002)

Sarah Michelle Gellar: Buffy Summers

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Quotes 

• Riley Finn : I hear ya. Got some, uh... big stories to tell you, too, if we even get half a second.

  Buffy Summers : Did ya die?

  Riley Finn : No.

  Buffy Summers : I'm gonna win.

• [last lines] 

  Buffy Summers : It's over.

  Spike : I've memorized this tune, luv. Think I have the sheet music. Doesn't change what you want.

  Buffy Summers : I know that... I do want you. Being with you... makes things... simpler, for a little while.

  Spike : I don't call five hours straight "a little while."

  Buffy Summers : I'm using you... I *can't* love you. I'm just... being weak, and selfish...

  Spike : Really not complaining here.

  Buffy Summers : And it's killing me... I have to be strong about this... I'm sorry, William.

• Buffy Summers : Tell me you love me.

  Spike : I love you. You know I do.

  Buffy Summers : Tell me you want me.

  Spike : I always want you. In point of fact...

  Buffy Summers : Shut up.

• Riley Finn : We've been tear-assing through every jungle from Paraguay up, taking out nests. As soon as we put one Suvolte down, a dozen take its place... They're breeders, Buffy. One turns into ten. Ten becomes a hundred. This gets out of hand and there's a war with humans, the humans are gonna lose.

  Buffy Summers : So they're like really mean tribbles. Sorry. I've been dealing with these, these geeks. It-It-It's a whole thing.

• Skanky Vamp : What's that smell? Geez, Slayer! Is that you?

  Buffy Summers : I've been working!

  Skanky Vamp : Where, in a slaughter house?

  Buffy Summers : Doublemeat Palace.

  Skanky Vamp : Ooh. You know what? Let's just call it a night. If it's all the same to you, and you've been eatin' that stuff, I'm not so sure I wanna bite you.

  Buffy Summers : You're dead. You smell like it. How do you get to say *I'm* the one who's stinky?

• Sam Finn : I gotta tell you, Buffy. I'm a little bit intimidated. I mean, patrolling with the real live Slayer. You're like Santa Claus, or Buddha, or something.

  Buffy Summers : Fat and jolly?

• Buffy Summers : Which means we have to find the nest, and fast, before Sunnydale turns into the "Troublemeat" Palace.

  [everyone turns and looks at her] 

  Buffy Summers : I wish I'd said something else.

• Buffy Summers : My hat has a cow.

• Buffy Summers : Well I'm sure my incredible patheticness softened the blow for you.

  Riley Finn : I don't know what you're talking about.

  Buffy Summers : Riley, please don't patronize...

  Riley Finn : Hey! You want me to say that I *liked* seeing you in bed with that idiot? Or that blinding orange is your very best color? Or that that... burger smell is appealing?

  Buffy Summers : You smelled the smell?

  Riley Finn : Buffy, none of that means anything. It doesn't touch you. You are still the first woman I ever loved... and the strongest woman I have ever known. Now I'm not advertising this to the missus... but you're still quite the hottie.

  Buffy Summers : You know, it goes away after many bathings.

  Riley Finn : [chuckles]  This isn't about who's on top. I know how lucky I am right now. I love my work, and I love my wife.

  Buffy Summers : I know... And I kinda love her too.

  Riley Finn : And so you're not in the greatest place right now... And maybe I made it worse.

  Buffy Summers : No.

  Riley Finn : The wheel never stops turning, Buffy. You're up. You're down... It doesn't change what you are, and you are a hell of a woman.

• [first lines] 

  Todd : You see, Buffy, the thing you gotta learn about the Palace, and this takes a while, is that job security all boils down to one simple thing... Politics. Now, I'm not a political animal. But you learn fast around here, or it's, *wham*. Hello, glass ceiling... I mean, it's not like we work at Burger World or The Happy Bun where the power structure is simple. No. Here at the Palace, you gotta keep your friends close, but your enemies, closer. It like Machiavelli says... You know Machiavelli, right?

  Buffy Summers : Tall guy, bleached mullet, works day shifts?

• [regarding Riley's wife] 

  Willow Rosenberg : Just so you know, I'm prepared to hate this woman any way you want.

  Buffy Summers : Thanks, but no. I don't wanna seem all petty.

  Willow Rosenberg : Well, that's the beauty. You can't, but I can. Please. Let me carry the hate for the both of us.

  Buffy Summers : Go nuts.