Top 100 Romero Quotes
#1. We like to imagine that Shaun is in George Romero's universe, that it's happening at the same time as the Pittsburgh outbreak.
Edgar Wright
#2. Army, Marriage, the Church, and Baking: the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse.
Fermin Romero de Torres - The Shadow of the Wind.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#3. stuck in a backwoods George Romero movie with the cast from Hee Haw.
D. Nathan Hilliard
#4. If I could make one wish, I wouldn't ask for world peace. I'd wish for a real zombie apocalypse. I'll take Romero zombies any day over this counterfeit harmony bullshit.
J. Cornell Michel
#5. But unlike the person with exquisite taste in painting or perfume, the movie nerd is classless as well. Grasping the genius of Russ Meyer or George Romero or Herschell Gordon Lewis carries no cultural cachet and gets no one laid, believe me.
David Gordon
#6. 'Feed' is about zombies and politics and blogging. It's about how George Romero actually saved the world! It's 'Night Of The Living Dead' meets 'The West Wing.'
Seanan McGuire
#7. In our times, significantly, the three outstanding voices against violence have been silenced by murder - Mahatma Gandhi in India, Archbishop Romero in El Salvador, and Dr. Martin Luther King, here at home.
Millicent Fenwick
#8. Though I respect hugely the effort and the care and the beauty of games, I want to be working with people who want to create the 'War & Peace' of games, the 'Citizen Kane' of games, and not just be warming up George Romero.
Clive Barker
#9. With the Romero zombie, you usually did not have a reason for the infection, the plague, the virus, whatever it's called.
Stephen Graham Jones
#10. Archbishop Romero of El Salvador was a member of the Salvadoran aristocracy. He could not have risen to the top of the church hierarchy otherwise. But after he began voicing critical remarks about the war and concerned comments about the poor, he was assassinated.
Michael Parenti
#11. Are these Romero slow zombies, or 28 Days Later fast zombies?"
"They were totally slow, dude. Are you blind?
Carrie Harris
#12. I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.
John Cusack
#13. Romero's stepfather knew something was up when an officer working on a classified Russian dogfight simulation asked him if his stepson was interested in a part-time job.
David Kushner
#14. I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though I've been sometimes compared to those other guys. We're after different game.
David Cronenberg
#15. 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
#16. I just adored 'Shaun Of The Dead.' That's a true mashup. That's a real Romero-era zombie movie and a real Gen X indie comedy. That was before zombie movies were cool, before 'Zombieland' and 'I Am Legend,' and now it has become a whole sub-genre.
Jon Favreau
#17. I am a huge zombie fan. I have probably seen the George Romero movies 100 times each, without exaggeration.
J. Michael Straczynski
#18. I remember the way Romero had looked at me at our Christmas party. as if he saw me for the first time, really saw me as a woman and not just a stupid child.
Cora Reilly
#19. All right," he said. "My name is Oswaldo Alexander Romero, I was born right here in Virginia, and I like romantic comedies, books about sparkling vampires, and long walks on the beach.
Jon S. Lewis
#20. I love when violent, dangerous art is done by people who are not violent and dangerous. I love that when George Romero was making 'Dawn of the Dead,' he was coaching his son's little league team.
Penn Jillette
#21. You should only play pieces that you're willing to marry.
Pepe Romero
#22. I've gone on record to say that I'm proud of the PC version of Daikatana and I stand behind that.
John Romero
#23. The guitar is a meditative tool to touch God and find love within yourself.
Pepe Romero
#24. I think you're only free if you're working on very low or huge money.
George A. Romero
#25. Zombies are always moving fast in video games. It makes sense if you think about it. Those games are all about hand-eye coordination and how quickly can you get them before they get you.
George A. Romero
#26. I do not believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me I will rise again in the people of El Salvador.
Oscar Romero
#27. The guy that made me wanna make movies ... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.
George A. Romero
#28. I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.
George A. Romero
#29. When we leave Mass, we ought to go out the way Moses descended Mt Sinai: with his face shining, with his heart brave and strong to face the world's difficulties.
Oscar Romero
#30. I really liked the helicopter pilot in 'Dawn of the Dead', when he gets bitten and comes out of the elevator. That guy was amazing. He did this incredible walk that we didn't even know about until we started shooting.
George A. Romero
#31. I had to keep from laughing when a male relative of mine became concerned about how often I danced.
Cesar Romero
#32. The analogy I use is that 'World of Warcraft' is like going to the mall: you see a ton of people there, but you don't really want to interact with them; you just want to know you're part of the human race. And if you get in trouble, you'll know someone else is there.
John Romero
#33. My stuff is my stuff. I do it for my own reasons, using my own peculiar set of guidelines. I'm not a student of the genre. I don't care what anybody else does.
George A. Romero
#34. A church that does not provoke any crisis, preach a gospel that does not unsettle, proclaim a word of God
that does not get under anyone's skin or a word of God that does not touch the real sin of the society in which
it is being proclaimed: what kind of gospel is that?
Oscar A. Romero
#35. That is perceptive of you, because in this country men dancers have always been viewed with suspicion. If you were an actor, a star, and a dancer, you had to be, or have a name like someone 'mainstream.'
Cesar Romero
#36. I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.
George A. Romero
#37. The Thin Man was a good break, because it was highly popular. I played a gigolo in it.
Cesar Romero
#38. I can't really make fun of zombies. They're not liars. They're not cheats.
George A. Romero
#39. But by the time I was 40, everything was winding down. It started after the war. On the plus side, there was more more products and technology. But for me the nightlife was winding down, the glamour, the fun.
Cesar Romero
#40. Liberation that raises a cry against others is no true liberation. Liberation that means revolutions of hate and violence and takes away lives of others or abases the dignity of others
cannot be true liberty.
Oscar Romero
#42. As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie.
George A. Romero
#43. George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies.
Cesar Romero
#44. I think the reason that I like so many different games is because I like the way my brain works when I'm playing games. It's more fun.
John Romero
#46. If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!
Cesar Romero
#47. I grew up on the old EC comic books before the Comics Code in North American and with all sort of good-natured fun. I never had nightmares I think because all of the old horror stuff that I was exposed to was well meaning in a certain sense.
George A. Romero
#48. When you've seen prejudice, you understand that we aren't finished, that we're still perfecting this American experiment.
Anthony Romero
#49. I don't think you need to spend $40 million to be creepy. The best horror films are the ones that are much less endowed.
George A. Romero
#50. There are many things that can only be seen through eyes that have cried
Oscar A. Romero
#51. Everybody knows the rules, even though some break those rules.
George A. Romero
#52. When someone's acting for a scene, they can fool the camera. But in everyday life, unless you're watching and censoring yourself every minute, or spending all your time in the company of ladies, what you feel is bound to show in your eyes.
Cesar Romero
#53. I believe that every human being should try to do good for someone else. There are so many different ways to do it. My art can be an instrument for helping people ... What a good feeling - that I can do that with my art ...
Romero Britto
#54. You're headed in the right direction when you realize the customer viewpoint is more important than the company viewpoint. It's more productive to learn from your customers instead of about them.
John Romero
#55. Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse.
Cesar Romero
#56. There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.
Pepe Romero
#58. The bulls are my best friends."
I translated to Brett.
"You kill your friends?" she asked.
"Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they don't kill me.
Ernest Hemingway,
#59. We must not seek the child Jesus in the pretty figures of our Christmas cribs. We must seek him among the undernourished children who have gone to bed at night with nothing to eat, among the poor newsboys who will sleep covered with newspapers in doorways.
Oscar Romero
#60. Each time we look upon the poor, on the farmworkers who harvest the coffee, the sugarcane, or the cotton ... remember, there is the face of Christ.
Oscar Romero
#61. I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed.
George A. Romero
#63. I don't want to be an anti, against anybody. I simply want to be the builder of a great affirmation: the affirmation of God,who loves us and who wants to save us.
Oscar A. Romero
#64. They would glue the wig to the front of my forehead, and after a while it would give me a headache.
Cesar Romero
#65. I feel very lucky to be successful in what i love doing everyday.
Romero Britto
#66. There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.
John Romero
#67. I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.
Cesar Romero
#68. One must not love oneself so much, as to avoid getting involved in the risks of life that history demands of us, and those that fend off danger will lose their lives.
Oscar Romero
#69. It's disingenuous and wrong to say that the attorney general's expanded powers in the Patriot Act come with adequate oversight by the courts, ... In reality, the most troubling provisions in the law make judges little more than rubber stamps in Justice Department investigations.
Anthony Romero
#70. There are so many factors when you think of your own films. You think of the people you worked on it with, and somehow forget the movie. You can't forgive the movie for a long time. It takes a few years to look at it with any objectivity and forgive its flaws.
George A. Romero
#71. If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine's Day. I said no.
Cesar Romero
#72. Thank you, readers, for your interest in and support of my work. Enjoy the journey...
S.J. Romero
#73. There are too many games being developed by people that have no business creating games.
John Romero
#74. We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker.
Oscar Romero
#75. That is the hope that inspires Christians. We know that every effort to better society, especially when injustice and sin are so ingrained, is an effort that God blesses, that God wants, that God demands of us.
Oscar Romero
#76. I expect a zombie to show up on 'Sesame Street' soon, teaching kids to count.
George A. Romero
#77. Social sin is the crystallization ... of individuals' sins into permanent structures that keeps sin in being and makes its force to be felt by the majority of people.
Oscar Romero
#78. 'The Thing from Another World' was the first movie that really scared me.
George A. Romero
#79. It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.
Cesar Romero
#81. To play the guitar well is easy, to play the guitar poorly is difficult.
Pepe Romero
#82. I should only have been as lucky as Valentino, in the movies - I didn't have to be a gigolo. In real life.
Cesar Romero
#84. What the Internet's value is that you have access to information but you also have access to every lunatic that's out there that wants to throw up a blog.
George A. Romero
#85. I've gotten letters, but mostly from Bible-belt types who say, you must be Satan! They come right out and call me Satan and hope that I'm damned to hell.
George A. Romero
#86. Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we know we only preach the subversive witness of the Beatitudes, which have turned everything upside down.
Oscar Romero
#87. Somehow I've been able to keep standing and stay in my little corner and do my little stuff and I'm not particularly affected by trends or I'm not dying to make a 3D movie or anything like that. I'm just sort of happy to still be around.
George A. Romero
#88. I was wearing corn plasters above and below my toes and taping my ankles twice.
Cesar Romero
#89. The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.
George A. Romero
#91. The make up took about an hour to put on, but the wig was a thing that bothered me more than anything else.
Cesar Romero
#92. Even if something impresses me, I'll die before I admit it.
Samantha Romero
#93. You knew everybody at all the studios and you saw them often.
Cesar Romero
#94. I used to play a few instruments including guitar and snare drums, but I think a musical background is an important part of a career. If you start out playing instruments you create a better instinct and feeling for music.
Nicky Romero
#95. We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured.
Oscar Romero
#96. 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
#97. I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque stuff just made me chuckle.
George A. Romero
#98. I still like to play games that have a beginning, an end and a story.
John Romero
#99. I think DOOM had just the right mix of elements that keep people coming back to it: great monsters, excellent weapons with great balance, a spooky environment and extreme speed.
John Romero
#100. Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view.
Cesar Romero
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