Norman Reedus quotes:

I followed a girl I met in Japan to Los Angeles and ended up working in a motorcycle store. I quit the job one night, went to a party in the Hollywood Hills and ended up yelling at a bunch of people. Someone saw me yelling and asked me to be in a play. The first night, there was an agent in the audience who took me on and sent me out for jobs.

I've been into Sonic Youth since junior high school. I think I kind of have ADD, so it's good music for ADD because it just throws you in different directions all the time. I really like Kim Gordon's voice and Thurston Moore's voice, and I like the guitars going off on tangents.

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.

I'm a T-shirt-and-Levi's type of a guy.

I am still getting that love on 'The Walking Dead' for Daryl. I try to respond to everyone as much as I can. I am super appreciative of all the presents I get: all the paintings and all the drawings; the shirts, and the hats, and everything else. Everyone is super cool. I feel like I am not just doing a job, and I am not just doing it by myself.

I went camping one time when I was twelve, to the Great Lakes. My friend stepped in really deep muddy water and started screaming and sinking. My mom ran up, and I was just standing there a foot away and wouldn't stick out my hand to pull him up. So I'm probably not the best person to take on a camping trip.

I did a film called 'Floating' early on that had a scene which was similar to a real-life situation I was in at the time. It involved me having a conversation with my father, who was dying. It was close to home and it made me realise acting wasn't just making faces for the cameras, it was a real art form.

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

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.

I'm always taking pictures and travelling with a camera and have so many photos that I've done a book.

I don't have a mullet, but going into season one on 'The Walking Dead,' I asked to have a mullet, and everybody talked me out of it. Because I'd have to wear a mullet when we were not shooting every day. I have that motorcycle, wings on my vest, the crossbow... Maybe a mullet would've thrown me over the edge.

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

I'm one of those people who can watch a stupid movie and end up crying.

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.

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.

Damaged people gravitate towards damaged people.

I'm one of those guys that - as far as relationships and stuff go - if you smile at me, I'm like, 'Let's date for three years' - which is just ridiculous.

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.

I have a cartoon I'm developing with Adult Swim called 'Monster Town U.S.A.,' so I'm busy doing that. Trying to do a coffee-table book of my photography that's been requested of me a couple of times. I'm constantly busy.

I saw 'True Blood' once, and I like the jazzy feel of it and stuff.

I've had shows as a painter, as a photographer, I've done shows as a sculptor. I've done a lot of different things and it all comes from experiences that you have in your life, in your creative environment. They all help - I don't even know if they help; maybe they make it worse but they all influence each other, for sure.

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.

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

Getting old and dying alone is my worst fear.

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.

You can't not look cool with a crossbow.

I like people who push the envelope.

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.

I think it's interesting to have a cool character not look so cool, you know?

I had fears going into television that it might become boring to me, and I always like to be challenged, push myself. 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.

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.

Irish is harder to pull off. I know southern people and I really like the midwest, so I can tap into that a little bit. It's easier to sound angry with southern than it is Irish. Yelling Irish you can sound like an angry Leprechaun. I think me screaming like I am going to kill you in Irish doesn't work.

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.

Peanut Butter Wolf is my relaxing music, my lunch music, my chilling music.

I hate that word, 'quirky.' It's like the worst f - king word in the world.

I'm more of a listener than a talker.

I love smashing stuff.

I'm certainly honest - and I can be socially awkward.

Yelling Irish, you can sound like an angry Leprechaun.

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.

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

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

I'm not afraid to take chances or go off on my own.

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

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

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.

Oh, I love horror movies, yeah.

People are pretty strange.

Before [becoming an actor] I kind of just wanted to paint and live somewhere and do something low-key and artistic.

Do not have regrets. Guilt is a wasted emotion.

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.

I'm a quiet person. I spend time observing, not speaking.

I'm not a big fan of plastic surgery. Because it looks like you had plastic surgery.

I'm not afraid of retirement. Retirement sounds like a blast.

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.

I'm so fortunate, it's ridiculous.

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.

It's really easy to take something small and make it big in your head and fight against it.

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

There's a happiness about me, a confidence and a happiness that I didn't have when I was younger. 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. You can be really good-looking in your twenties but feel miserable, and people just sort of walk away.

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.

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.

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.