Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series)

Witch (1997)

Anthony Head: Rupert Giles

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Quotes 

• Rupert Giles : But that's the thrill of living on the Hellmouth! There's a veritable cornucopia of-of fiends and devils and-and-and ghouls to engage.

  [everyone looks at him] 

  Rupert Giles : Well, pardon me for finding the glass half full.

• Rupert Giles : Why should someone want to harm Cordelia?

  Willow Rosenberg : Maybe because they met her?... Did I say that?

• [first lines] 

  Rupert Giles : This is madness. What can you have been thinking. You are the Slayer. Lives depend upon you. I make...

  [hands in hair] 

  Rupert Giles : allowances for you youth, but I expect a certain amount of responsibility, instead of which you enslave yourself to this-this... cult?

  Buffy : [in cheerleader outfit with pom poms]  You don't like the color?

  Rupert Giles : I -

  [sighs] 

  Rupert Giles : Do you ignore everything I say? Is that - Is that the rule?

  Buffy : No, I believe that's your trick. I told you, I'm trying out for the cheerleading squad.

  Rupert Giles : You have a sacred birthright, Buffy. You were chosen to destroy vampires, not to... wave pompoms at people.

  [Buffy just gazes at him] 

  Rupert Giles : And as The Watcher, I forbid it.

  [turns around, goes on his way] 

  Buffy : And you'll be stopping me *how?*

  [purses lips] 

  Rupert Giles : Well, I... I... By appealing to your common sense, if such a creature exists.

  Buffy : I will still have time to fight the forces of evil, okay? I just wanna have a life. I wanna do something normal. Something safe.

• Rupert Giles : I assume, the, uh... All the spells were reversed. It was my first casting, so, uh... I may have got it wrong.

  Buffy : You saved my life. You were a god!