Dawn of the Dead 1978 quotes

32 quotes · 9 characters
Dawn of the Dead (1978) poster
Characters
Blades 15 quotes
Roger Scott H. Reiniger · 14 quotes
Peter Ken Foree · 12 quotes
Francine Gaylen Ross · 5 quotes
Stephen 5 quotes
Dr. Foster David Crawford · 2 quotes
Wooley James A. Baffico · 2 quotes
Old Priest Jese Del Gre · 1 quote

Most scenes together: Roger & Blades (10), Peter & Blades (10), Roger & Peter (9)

Dawn of the Dead quotes

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Aww God! Oh, Jesus Christ!

What is it?

My bag! I left my goddamn bag in the other truck!

[stops driving the truck]

All right trooper, you better screw your head on.

[hyped tone]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, c'mon, c'mon c'mon, let's go!

[grabbing him by the collar]

I mean it! Now you're not just playin' with your life, you're playin' with mine! Now... are you straight?

[subdued tone]

Yeah.

Come on, Martinez.

Yeah, Martinez! Show your greasy little Puerto Rican ass so I can blow it right off!

[**** his gun]

Blow ALL their asses off! Low-life bastards! Blow ALL their low-life Puerto Rican and **** asses right off!

Peter, where are you?

I'm right here, man.

Hey, we did it, didn't we? We whipped 'em, didn't we?

That's right, man.

Didn't we... Didn't we whip 'em?

We sure did, buddy. We whipped 'em. We whipped 'em good!

[shouting triumphantly]

We whipped 'em and we got it ALL!

We've just got to wait a little longer before we move.

No, there's always a chance of some of them stayin' up on the balcony.

We can handle that; we can break through.

If any of them see us, or hear us, they'll just follow us on up. It's no good.

We sure as hell can outrun 'em. We can load up what we can and get the hell out.

I'm thinkin' maybe we've got a good thing going here. Maybe we shouldn't be in such a hurry to leave.

Oh, man...

If we could get back up there without them catchin' on, we could hole up for a while, at least long enough to catch a breath, check out the radio, see what's happening.

You'll take care of me when I go, won't you, Peter?

Rest, man. Save your strength.

I don't want to be walkin' around... like THAT!... Peter... PETER?

I'm here, man!

Don't do it until you are sure I am coming back! I'm gonna try... not to... I'm gonna try... not to... come back. I'm gonna try... not to...

Biker
[Bikers are looting the mall. One of them grabs a TV set. Another remembers that even the Emergency Broadcast Service has ceased airing.]

Hey man, what are you going to watch on that thing?

Sledge

Aw, rats, man, you're right!
[Sledge drops TV set and bashes it with a sledgehammer]

[discovering a collection of zombies in the basement of a tenement building]

Why did they keep them here?

'Cause they still believe there's respect in dying.

[hearing the zombies pounding against the shopping mall's glass doors]

They're still here.

They're after us. They know we're still in here.

They're after the place. They don't know why, they just remember. Remember that they want to be in here.

What the hell are they?

They're us, that's all, when there's no more room in hell.

What?

Something my granddad used to tell us. You know Macumba? Voodoo. My granddad was a priest in Trinidad. He used to tell us, "When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth."

[looking at the zombies in the mall]

What are they doing? Why do they come here?

Some kind of instinct. Memory, of what they used to do. This was an important place in their lives.

[Over the truck radios]

You look my size when you're sitting in the truck.

What I wanna know is how we ended up in the same force, what with you being so tall and all.

They told me it was a midget force. They needed somebody to look up to!

[Peter handles a very expensive rifle]

Ain't it a crime.

What?

The only person who could miss with this gun is the sucker with the bread to buy it.

Police Commander
[Police Commander is talking to people holding out in a tenement building via a megaphone. Roger is on the adjacent roof with other SWAT troopers, anticipating the Commander's speech]

Martinez! The people in this project are your responsibility! We don't want any of them hurt, and neither do you!
Roger [Under his breath]: I'm giving you three minutes, Martinez.

Police Commander

I'm giving you three minutes, Martinez! Turn over your weapons and surrender!

There's no charges against you.

Police Commander

There are no charges against you or any of your people!

Yet.

[removing a can from a Civil Defense carton]

Francine Parker [dejectedly]: Spam!

You bring a can opener?

No, I guess I didn't.

Then don't knock it, it's got it's own key.

[running through a department store after evading a horde of zombies]

Well, we're in, but how the hell are we gonna get back?

Who the hell cares! Let's go shopping!
Roger [looking in a display case]: Watches! Watches!

Wait a minute man, let's just get the stuff we need! I'll get a television and a radio.

Ooohh, ooohh, lighter fluid! And chocolate! Chocolate!

[he runs down a clothing aisle]

Hey, how about a mink coat!

Why not?