Amber Benson

Amber Nicole Benson is an American actress best known for playing Tara Maclay, Willow's lesbian love interest in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Chance (2002)

Chance [to Simon]: You can't be asexual, you gotta want to fuck something.

Willow & Tara

• I saw them in the grocery store [...] sitting benignly in their spinning racks, their technicolor faces looked like a not very girl-friendly amalgam of muscles, testosterone and pulpy, bloody flesh.
  • Introduction
• "No more talk of gloomy Angel, though. Only happy thoughts. Sunshine, picnic, that spell we did last night. With the oil?" ~ Tara

Seeing Red (#6.19)" (2002)

• Willow: Hey, clothes.
• Tara: Better not get used to 'em.

Older and Far Away (#6.14)" (2002)

• Spike: I had a muscle cramp. Buffy was, uh, helping.
• Tara: A muscle cramp... in your pants?
• Spike: What? It's a thing.

I Was Made to Love You (#5.15)" (2001)

• Tara: Well, I go online sometimes, but everyone's spelling is really bad. It's depressing.

Family (#5.6)" (2000)

• Willow: Tell me a story.
• Tara: Okay. Once upon a time, there was, um... a kitty. She was very little, and she was all alone, and nobody wanted her.
• Willow: This is a very upsetting story.

This Year's Girl (#4.15)" (2000)

• Willow: Don't worry, we're sure to spot Faith first. She's like this cleavagey slutbomb walking around going, "Ooh, check me out, I'm wicked cool, I'm five by five".
• Tara: "Five by five?" Five what by five what?
• Willow: See, that's the thing. No one knows.

Checkpoint (#5.12)" (2001)

• Willow: Questions. Great.
• Tara: W-we can answer questions.
• Nigel: Good. I need to know a little bit more about the Slayer, and about the both of you. Your relationship, whatever you can tell me.
• Tara: O-o-our relationship?
• Willow: We're friends.
• Tara: Good friends.
• Willow: Girlfriends, actually.
• Tara: Yes, we're girlfriends.
• Willow: We're in love. W-we're lovers. We're lesbian, gay-type lovers.
• Nigel: I meant your relationship with the Slayer.

All the Way (#6.6)" (2001)

• Anya: How 'bout you, ever play Shiver Me Timbers?
• Tara: I'm not really much for the timber.

Tough Love (#5.19)" (2001)

• Tara: Sweetie, you wouldn't blow off a class if your head was on fire.

Forever (#5.17)" (2001)

• Willow: What did I have for breakfast this morning? Do you remember?
• Tara: Huh?
• Willow: I-I wanna say bagel, but I think that was yesterday. You had two eggs sunny side up. I remember because they were wiggling at me like little boobs.
• Tara: Sassy eggs.

Triangle (#5.11)" (2001)

• Willow: We can come by between classes. Usually I use that time to copy over my class notes with a system of different colored pens. But it's been pointed out to me that that's, you know, insane.
• Tara: I said "quirky."

Interviews

• Oh my God, it's Tara.
  • "Buffy abroad" special feature, on Triangle/Checkpoint DVD, quoting British fans.
• It doesn't matter who you sleep with, it's how you treat other people in this world.
  • Amber Benson - Interview at Madame Tussaud's - 10 December, 2003
• It was interesting to have humanoid villains that were rooted in our three-dimensional reality... or four dimensional reality, I'm not sure which!
  • Amber Benson - Interview at Madame Tussaud's - 10 December, 2003
• I wouldn't want to forget anything, even the weird stuff and the bad stuff. It makes you who you are.
  • Amber Benson - Interview at Madame Tussaud's - 10 December, 2003
• I don't think you ever die on Buffy.
  • Chat at BBC-CULT December 19, 2002
• I don't think anything lives up to what you envisioned.
  • 10 Questions: Amber Benson Answers from Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Tara. by Ken P.
• I'm kissing Alyson Hannigan and I almost stuck my tongue in her mouth because we just got so into it at one point.
  • Amber Benson at Toronto Trek, July 6, 2002

Unsourced

• "I do think that if MEN were the ones that bore the children a more effective means of birth control would have been implemented years ago.”
  • “It's not real. I mean, there are no vampires, there are no witches. Well, there are Wiccans, but they're not making out with Alyson, so...”
• “Maybe because she's smaller than me she might look taller.”
  • "If I liked girls, I’d be a very happy camper. I’ve gotten some wonderful letters, and they’ve assured me that if I decide to play for the other team, I’ll have a place."
• "I'm known as the fat lesbian chick on Buffy. Of course I mean you stand me next to an actress like Sarah and I look like I'll eat her. Wait, that didn't sound right. But, you know what I mean."
  • "Everybody at work has a BMW except me. I don't have a car. I have a movie."
• "I'm really a big dork who likes to stay home and read a book."
  • "I’ve never purposely gone out to take somebody out. Well, maybe in elementary school I once did try to trip somebody."
• "Got to sing. Got to dance. Got to suck face with Alyson Hannigan."
  • "I wish someone would start a rumor. I need some spice in my life."