Top 50 Norman Reedus Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’m a quiet person. I spend time observing, not speaking.”

— Norman Reedus

2. “The dogs with the loudest bark are the ones that are most afraid.”

— Norman Reedus

3. “I like people who push the envelope.”

— Norman Reedus

4. “Oh, I love horror movies, yeah.”

— Norman Reedus

5. “You feel good inside, you look good outside. I feel like I look like somebody who’s having a good life, who’s enjoying it a little better than I did before.”

— Norman Reedus

6. “I’m more of a listener than a talker.”

— Norman Reedus

7. “Damaged people gravitate towards damaged people.”

— Norman Reedus

8. “Slow down, totally. You have to slow down and pay attention to everything.”

— Norman Reedus

9. “I’m certainly honest – and I can be socially awkward.”

— Norman Reedus

10. “I’m in a happy place. I’m very at peace with who I am and what I’m doing and the people around me, so I think I’m probably most ambitious at where I am.”

— Norman Reedus

11. “Getting old and dying alone is my worst fear.”

— Norman Reedus

12. “Do not have regrets. Guilt is a wasted emotion.”

— Norman Reedus

13. “It’s really easy to take something small and make it big in your head and fight against it.”

— Norman Reedus

14. “I’m not afraid to take chances or go off on my own.”

— Norman Reedus

15. “I’m constantly running away from everything. I’m running away from things on a daily basis. I run away from relationships. I run away from responsibilities.”

— Norman Reedus

16. “I’m not a big fan of plastic surgery. Because it looks like you had plastic surgery.”

— Norman Reedus

17. “I like playing these awkward moments in between that build relationships. I don’t ever want to play that character that grabs the girl and has my way with her. That’s just not who that character is. If Daryl falls in love with you, he’s going to love you for the rest of his life.”

— Norman Reedus

18. “I’m so fortunate, it’s ridiculous.”

— Norman Reedus

19. “I’ve been a huge Psychedelic Furs fan for a long time. I love Butler’s paintings, too. I like all their songs. I’ll even crank ‘Pretty in Pink,’ I don’t care.”

— Norman Reedus

20. “I’m a T-shirt-and-Levi’s type of a guy.”

— Norman Reedus

21. “I’m not saying that I don’t like the success of the job, but I really like going to work every day and I really like coming home and feeling satisfied with what I did today.”

— Norman Reedus

22. “I’m one of those people who can watch a stupid movie and end up crying.”

— Norman Reedus

23. “I’ve always said it’s interesting to watch devils cry when angels want to stab you in the back. I like that mixture.”

— Norman Reedus

24. “If a woman is dishonest, that kills it for me. I can’t even talk to her anymore.”

— Norman Reedus

25. “My twenties were carefree in the worst ways. There’s a nice balance now of work ethic and healthy lifestyle and carefree attitude, which is pretty nice. You get to a point where you don’t care so much what people think of you and you care more about yourself.”

— Norman Reedus

26. “Peanut Butter Wolf is my relaxing music, my lunch music, my chilling music.”

— Norman Reedus

27. “My mom, she’s like Why can’t you just do a nice romantic comedy like Jennifer Love Hewitt? And I’m like: Mom, look at me. They just don’t put me in those movies.”

— Norman Reedus

28. “Yelling Irish, you can sound like an angry Leprechaun.”

— Norman Reedus

29. “You can’t not look cool with a crossbow.”

— Norman Reedus

30. “Oh I love horror movies, yeah. I think my favorite movie growing up was ‘The Omen.’ I actually wanted to be that little kid.”

— Norman Reedus

31. “I love smashing stuff.”

— Norman Reedus

32. “When you add up the minutes you spend actually making a movie – the amount of time you spend actually doing your thing in front of a camera – it just isn’t that much. But it’s everything.”

— Norman Reedus

33. “I’m still insecure, but when I first started acting, I was really insecure. I glared at a lot of people. I assumed everyone hated me. Somehow that scowl has turned into an acting career.”

— Norman Reedus

34. “People are pretty strange.”

— Norman Reedus

35. “When you do television, you have this opportunity to drop these subtle hints everywhere. The way you say things, for example, sometimes those seeds turn into trees.”

— Norman Reedus

36. “I love the crossbow. I mean it’s just fun. Guns are fun, I can’t deny that shooting guns in movies isn’t fun. But a crossbow is pretty rad.”

— Norman Reedus

37. “I’ve shot films in locations that have seemed haunted. I shot a film in a maximum-security prison in Russia. Part of it was on a psychiatric ward – there were definitely some creepy vibes there.”

— Norman Reedus

38. “In my trailer, I work out with free weights and do situps and push-ups. I’m just trying to stay lean and active looking.”

— Norman Reedus

39. “I’ve been camping and stuff, but if you left me in the woods I’d probably just curl up and cry until someone found me.”

— Norman Reedus

40. “I think it’s interesting to have a cool character not look so cool, you know?”

— Norman Reedus

41. “I think violence has always been popular, way before movies started being made.”

— Norman Reedus

42. “I hate that word, ‘quirky.’ It’s like the worst f – king word in the world.”

— Norman Reedus

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

— Norman Reedus

44. “I went from a very pessimistic person to a very optimistic person sort of overnight, which is very weird. It’s not even the success of my shows. I think it’s the lifestyle change, I really do.”

— Norman Reedus

45. “I’m not afraid of retirement. Retirement sounds like a blast.”

— Norman Reedus

46. “I used to hang out with a bunch of old punk rockers when I was a little kid.”

— Norman Reedus

47. “I saw ‘True Blood’ once, and I like the jazzy feel of it and stuff.”

— Norman Reedus

48. “I basically eat a lot of proteins, and I’ve been eating smaller portions of food. I try to eat all locally raised and organic produce.”

— Norman Reedus

49. “You do a film and you know where you’re going, you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you know how it ends.”

— Norman Reedus

50. “Time is all we have on this earth, Jack. Never take it for granted. Up to you how it is spent. You can wake up angry at the world every day and blame yourself, blame others, drown in self-pity. Or you can do things that make joy. Help others. Only so many breaths, heartbeats, morning views of the sun to be had.”

— Norman Reedus