James Marsters
James Marsters
James Wesley Marstersis an American actor and musician. Marsters first came to the attention of the general public playing the popular character Spike, a platinum-blond English vampire in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off series, Angel, from 1997 to 2004. Since then, he has gone on to play other science fiction roles, such as the alien supervillain Brainiac on the Superman-inspired series Smallville, the omnisexual time traveller Captain John Hart in British science-fiction show Torchwood, and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth20 August 1962
CityGreenville, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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. Read more at: http://tr.im/dKLVG
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.
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.
I don't know if any of us are mature enough to handle the brutal honesty of what's inside other people's heads.
For me, chemistry is trust. If you have trust you can risk together. It's like a partnership and it means you can have fun together while jumping off a mountain. I have not always been able to get good trust with an acting partner. One of the best was Juliet Landau; I always felt safe with her. Chemistry has nothing to do with physical attraction - that often gets in the way.
I tend to be emotional when... I breathe.
Being a hero doesn't mean you succeed in saving the day. It just means you tried.
I'm a psychopath, but I don't have a problem with that.
I was uncomfortable with smoking too much because a lot of young kids watch and I didn't want to make that cool.
I patterned the accent after this guy I was in a play with, but that was three years ago. Now I'm listening to Tony Head (Giles in Buffy), who sounds kind of like Spike in real life. It's much more tough-guy talk in real life. His accent (as Giles) is just as fake as mine. His is nice and gritty, but it's not North London. I'm always afraid that I'm morphing over into Tony Head, wherever he's from.
I don't know much about the internet, I'm afraid
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
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
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.