60 Unliving Sayings Zombie Quotes

From shuffling shamblers to rage-fueled sprinters, zombies reanimate the dead, their hunger for flesh forcing humanity to fight for survival in a decaying world. Brace yourself for chilling encounters, desperate choices, and the relentless gnaw of hope in the face of the undead apocalypse. Zombies! The living dead, relentless in their pursuit for… braaaaains!

Zombie Quotes

1. “Yeah, I know I’m ugly… I said to a bartender, ‘Make me a zombie.’ He said ‘God beat me to it.’”
— Rodney Dangerfield

2. “Humanity is mind-controlled and only slightly more conscious than your average zombie.”
— David Icke

3. “If you want to survive the zombie apocalypse, you need to focus on increasing your stamina.”
— Tom Payne

4. “In a zombie apocalypse, I expect insane things to happen.”
— Chandler Riggs

5. “People called ’28 Days’ and ’28 Weeks’ zombie movies, and they’re not! It’s some sort of virus; they’re not dead.”
— George A. Romero

6. “In zombie horror, the juxtaposition of the calm world of the living and the menace of the undead inspires terror. In zombie comedy, like ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,’ it is played for laughs.”
— Adam Cohen

7. “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.”
— Edgar Wright

8. “’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.”
— Adam Wingard

9. “That’s what my song ‘Medication’ is about – everyone trying to make you a zombie.”
— Yungblud

10. “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.”
— Max Brooks

11. “I didn’t know I was a zombie pedant until I started considering what from the zombie canon to keep in ‘Zone One’ and what to ignore.”
— Colson Whitehead

12. “I’m a big zombie buff.”
— Emily VanCamp

13. “We’ve done a zombie episode – only one – and the way we look at it as is we understand that there probably aren’t zombies out there for real, but there’s a lot of interesting stuff we can test about them. We’ve tested how bodies of zombies pressing against a gate, would they push it through and things like that.”
— Jamie Hyneman

14. “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.”
— Tracey Gold

15. “I’m obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.”
— Kevin Bacon

16. “If there was a zombie apocalypse, I would use my yodeling to kill every single one of them.”
— Mason Ramsey

17. “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.”
— Thomas Frank

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

19. “I’ve never had a zombie eat a brain! I don’t know where that comes from. Who says zombies eat brains?”
— George A. Romero

20. “Before I’m a zombie nerd, before I’m a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.”
— Max Brooks

21. “The one advice that I would give just to moms who have a child or a newborn is definitely sleep while the baby sleeps. I’ve heard that so many times. I never realized how true it really is. If you don’t, you’ll be walking around like a zombie.”
— Tia Mowry

22. “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.”
— Rob Zombie

23. “Plus, doing a zombie movie is quite liberating. It’s fun not to take myself seriously all the time.”
— Sarah Polley

24. “I am a conservative, but I am not a zombie.”
— Glenn Beck

25. “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.”
— Jason Newsted

26. “I expect a zombie to show up on ‘Sesame Street’ soon, teaching kids to count.”
— George A. Romero

27. “I go to conventions and universities and talk to young filmmakers and everybody’s making a zombie movie! It’s because it’s easy to get the neighbors to come out, and put some ketchup on them.”
— George A. Romero

28. “I can’t say I was like a die-hard zombie fan, but I’ve definitely seen a few different zombie movies and TV shows.”
— Dave Franco

29. “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.”
— Seth Grahame-Smith

30. “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.”
— Dee Wallace

31. “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.”
— Gale Anne Hurd

32. “You can’t negotiate with a zombie. They have only one impulse – that’s to eat us or our brains.”
— Stephen Graham Jones

33. “Rob Zombie was White Zombie and I was Static-X. I wrote and produced everything.”
— Wayne Static

34. “I am a clinical zombie.”
— Andy Biersack

35. “I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.”
— Simon Pegg

36. “It is hard being a football loather, a football un fan. I sometimes feel as lonely as the sole survivor in the last reel of a Zombie film, as, one by one, old friends reveal themselves, with their glassy stares and outstretched arms, to have succumbed to the lure.”
— Craig Brown

37. “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.”
— Alison Gopnik

38. “I did ‘Slither,’ so I’ve done seven hours in the makeup chair. So two hours for zombie makeup is like nothing. That’s a walk in the park for me. When you do seven-hour makeup and then eight hours of work, you’re thinking, ‘Oh God, what did this do to me?’ You’re under that rubber forever. It’s crazy.”
— Michael Rooker

39. “I don’t think anyone wants to cuddle a zombie.”
— Norman Reedus

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

41. “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.”
— Alan Moore

42. “Regency romances end in marriage; zombie stories end in the zombies being vanquished. ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ delivers both.”
— Adam Cohen

43. “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.”
— Colson Whitehead

44. “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.”
— Marilyn Manson

45. “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, a chick flick, or a raunchy comedy. If it’s well done, I’m a fan.”
— J. K. Simmons

46. “The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg’s films, or John Carpenter’s films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of ‘Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,’ or George Romero’s early zombie films.”
— Edgar Wright

47. “I wasn’t a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie.”
— Veronica Lake

48. “A zombie apocalypse isn’t the most jovial situation.”
— Danai Gurira

49. “If I was in a zombie apocalypse, I wouldn’t be playing music, because that would attract zombies.”
— Scott Weiland

50. “I unloaded planes for UPS in Louisville, Kentucky. It only was bad because it was called ‘Earn to Learn,’ where you pay for your tuition for college, but you have to work the graveyard shift – midnight to eight A.M. – and then go to school at nine or 10 A.M. I was a zombie after two semesters.”
— Boyd Holbrook

51. “What is it about a zombie that appeals to me? I don’t know. Maybe that it’s just the most possible – I don’t know – of all the supernatural entities.”
— Scott Ian

52. “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.’”
— Ernest Cline

53. “On Eye of the Zombie, I had so-called studio musicians.”
— John Fogerty

54. “I always look for an intense experience, an intense ride. There is nothing better than a good zombie movie where you run crazy and blow at monsters! It was a physical shoot and I enjoyed it.”
— Sarah Polley

55. “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 realized 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.”
— Michel Gondry

56. “I’m into ‘The Walking Dead,’ ‘Shaun of the Dead,’ obviously, and I’ve seen all the Romero movies. I am a classic zombie queen. And I love the White Walkers on ‘Game of Thrones.’ Weirdly, it wasn’t until pretty late in life that I found my entry point into horror films.”
— Anna Kendrick

57. “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.”
— Teresa Palmer

58. “I’ve always been afraid of video games – not afraid that I wouldn’t like them, but that I would like them too much, and that after mere seconds in front of any particularly bright and absorbing game, I would abandon all ambition, turn into a mouth-breathing zombie, and develop a wide, sofa-shaped rear end.”
— Susan Orlean

59. “I love any comedic zombie movies.”
— Atticus Shaffer

60. “I majored in Chinese Studies. I’m probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin.”
— Lloyd Kaufman