Top 70 Zombie Quotes

I would never butt heads with Rob Zombie. I don’t know anybody that’s in acting that ever butted heads with Rob Zombie. I adore Rob. I adore him. I adore working with him. I adore knowing him. I’m happy to consider myself a friend and someone who he hires. I just think he’s great.

I’m a big zombie buff.

My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you’re starving yourself, you can’t concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn’t eat.

I don’t like vampire movies or zombie movies. I went to see ‘I Am Legend’ with an ex-girlfriend the other day, and I immediately realised it was a zombie movie! You know what I mean? There are certain rules, and those rules are things that you’ve seen many times.

Everyone told me to sleep when the baby sleeps, but she sleeps during the daytime, and that’s when I have to get stuff done! I’ve been a zombie.

I wrote ‘The Zombie Survival Guide’ because I wanted to read it, and nobody else was writing it. All I’ve been doing with everything I’ve written is answering questions that I had.

I feel like a zombie movie is kind of like the gold to hear movie.

In a zombie apocalypse, I expect insane things to happen.

All my friends are like, ‘Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?’ and I’m like, ‘I got this.’

White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great about it. There is no reason to think that you can’t do it.

To be honest, my friends weren’t really as into making films as I was. But I convinced them all to make some zombie films with me.

I love Rob Zombie – I’d love to work with Rob Zombie or John Cameron Mitchell.

There’s this one show that I want to be in so badly. I’d try everything to get into ‘The Walking Dead.’ I don’t even care if I’m a zombie.

I love any comedic zombie movies.

We tell ourselves zombie stories to remind us we shouldn’t live beyond the natural boundaries of life – or seek a third stage of life in this world.

How I found out is, I landed in Des Moines from a plane ride back from the Rob Zombie tour. I was, like, ‘Okay, cool, I’m home. I can finally get some rest.’ Once I landed, I turned my phone on, and my manager rang, and I’m, like, ‘Oh, what?’ He said, ‘Paul Gray just died.’

Most zombie stories, the problems they solve are not the actual zombies. The problems they solve are the human interactions.

‘Cloverfield’ and ‘REC’ are great examples of movies that took kind of tired genres, the monster movie and the zombie film, and by filming them in found footage, it was a new perspective. It gives you a whole new take and helps you re-experience that all over again.

Non-crazy gun advocates – the ones who aren’t stockpiling in preparation for a zombie invasion – don’t like the idea of expanding background checks because they think it’ll be a lot more paperwork. And it probably would make it more difficult to sell guns at, say, a flea market.

After playing with Rob Zombie, I was ready to go, ‘OK, this is as far as I’m taking this bass-playing thing. This is the end of the road.’ I was ready to kind of hang it up.

I’m on a never-ending quest to get back on a TV series, and I want to get on ‘The Walking Dead’. I’m at this point now where, I have three things. I could either be on the Governor’s team, I could be on Rick’s team, or I could be a seven-foot zombie who never dies.

In ‘Shaun of the Dead,’ it’s not Shaun’s fault that there’s a zombie apocalypse – he just has to get through the day.

We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness – better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.

When I couldn’t write, I felt like a zombie.

I am a clinical zombie.

Korean Zombie beat me, and I was prepared that night. He beat me, he beat me that night.

Italian writer-director Paolo Sorrentino makes zombie movies, which probably comes as a surprise to him. At the center of his best and most recent pictures are the walking dead, characters in a race with themselves across mortality’s finish line, their spirits arriving before the rest of them.

Max Brooks’ novel ‘World War Z’ is one of the greatest zombie stories ever written, partly for reasons that make it basically unfilmable.

I’m not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it’s well done, I’m a fan.

I used to be able to pitch them on the basis of the zombie action, and I could hide the message inside that. Now, you can’t. The moment you mention the word ‘zombie,’ it’s got to be, ‘Hey, Brad Pitt paid $400 million to do that.’

A zombie apocalypse isn’t the most jovial situation.

There is something about the sameness people like. And what I’ve tried to do with all the zombie films is purposely make them different. That may be part of why it takes so long for people to see what it’s intended to be.

I’m all about competition; still am to this day. That’s how you should be, but not with any malice. From Mike Will Made It to Boi-1da to Mike Zombie, I’m out to get ’em all and it’s that friendly competition that keeps us all on our toes.

What ‘Shaun of the Dead’ and ‘Hot Fuzz’ and ‘World’s End’ do is smuggle a different movie under the guise of a zombie movie or a cop or alien invasion movie. Even though they all have action and carnage, they are really films about growing up and taking responsibility.

Just as the financial crisis has created toxic assets and ‘zombie’ financial institutions, so has it transformed conservatism into a movement of the living dead.

I love zombie films like Danny Boyle’s ’28 Days Later’ – I thought it was so brilliantly done and so grounded in reality. I was definitely thrust into the zombie world watching that film.

I’ve been a fan of Zombie’s since the beginning. I’ve toured with them and have always wanted to play for them.

The novel ‘World War Z’ is told from the perspectives of so many people – speaking to the narrator – that there’s no way a movie could capture all of them. Still, the idea of turning a zombie pandemic into a war story is fascinating and could have translated easily to film.

Culture is just a shambling zombie that repeats what it did in life; bits of it drop off, and it doesn’t appear to notice.

In a zombie apocalypse movie, nobody’s ever seen a zombie movie. Or in an alien invasion movie, nobody has ever seen an alien invasion movie, like ‘Independence Day.’

I majored in Chinese Studies. I’m probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin.

For me, the terror of the zombie is that at any moment, your friend, your family, you neighbor, your teacher, the guy at the bodega down the street, can be revealed as the monster they’ve always been.

It’s absurd to think of ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make you suspend your disbelief enough to allow you to get lost in the story and believe what you’re reading for a while.

I used to stay up all night playing ‘Resident Evil 2,’ and it wouldn’t stop until the sun came up. Then I’d walk outside at dawn’s first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I’d stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.

I am a huge zombie fan. I have probably seen the George Romero movies 100 times each, without exaggeration.

I think about ‘The Simpsons,’ which has been going on for 25 years. Homer is still in his late 30’s. Lisa is 8, Bart is 10. Their stories are told. Yet the series keeps going on and on like a zombie that won’t lie down and die. That feels forced and unnatural. The characters never change, grow, age.

I like zombie movies. I like ‘The Walking Dead;’ I like the metaphor of it, simply because when we go with the zombie concept – if you’re bitten by a zombie, you don’t transform into something else like a vampire or a werewolf or whatever. You become something that’s not you.

A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation.

I am a conservative, but I am not a zombie.

If you’re going to be a zombie in a movie, you go big or go home.

Plus, doing a zombie movie is quite liberating. It’s fun not to take myself seriously all the time.

I did ‘Land of the Dead,’ which was the biggest zombie film I had ever made. I don’t think it needed to be that big. That money went largely to the cast. They were great, but I don’t think that money needed to be spent.

I don’t think anyone wants to cuddle a zombie.

I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to ‘Night of the Living Dead.’ And ‘The Walking Dead’ is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.

On Eye of the Zombie, I had so-called studio musicians.

With the Romero zombie, you usually did not have a reason for the infection, the plague, the virus, whatever it’s called.