I'd like to chime in here, too, briefly.
I've also never met him, but back around the time Angel was being cancelled I was involved with a campaign site trying to save the show. One of my fellow "Strategists" on that site organized a contest for fans (can't remember the exact details) and was looking for prizes to offer to the winners. One night, out of the blue, she gets a phone call. She picks it up and who's on the other end? David Boreanaz. He had been informed about what we were trying to do on the site and heard she was organizing this contest and looking for prizes, so he got her phone number, called her up, and offered her a signed copy of his shooting script for the Angel series finale to use as first prize.
In my opinion, it would be rather hard to believe that he's a jerk after he took the initiative to do that, and did it personally rather than through a third party. If there's a perception out there by some people that he's a jerk, I tend to think that it can be attributed to his long-standing and rather public philosophy that his work life and personal life are separate, and so he generally doesn't hang around with his co-workers outside of work, no matter how much he likes and respects them on the job. Digging into my memory banks, the only exceptions I ever recall hearing or reading about were Nicolas Brendan, Glenn Quinn, and Christian Kane. I get the impression that he might also sometimes hang out with Emily Deschanel, but I could be totally wrong about that one.
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