Eugene Porter quotes from The Walking Dead

Eugene Porter

I'm well aware it sounds bananas. But looking at the fossil record, knowing what I know about this infection, you cannot say for certain it isn't what killed off the dinosaurs. Now, do I believe that's what happened? No. But it's enjoyable as hell to think about an undead ankylosaur going after a diplodocus. That there is a video game worth a pre-order.

Eugene Porter

I'm not fleet of foot. I sure as hell can't take a dead one down with sharp buttons and hella confidence.

Eugene Porter

The smartest man I ever met happened to love my hair. My old boss, T. Brooks Ellis, the director of the Human Genome Project. He said my hair made me look like, and I quote, "a fun guy," which I am. I just ain't Samson.

Eugene Porter

[to Tara] I appreciate the positive affirmations and looking the other way on the perversion, but I know empirically and definitively I cannot survive on my own.

Eugene Porter

So you’re aware, I’m on record as stating that I should not be here. You well know that I’m not combat ready or even for that matter combat inclined.

Eugene Porter

[to Heath] I fully respect the hair game.

Abraham Ford

So you tell me how in the holy hell did you possibly kill this truck?

Eugene Porter

A fully amped-up state and an ignorance of rapid-firing weapons.

Maggie Greene

I know why you have the haircut.

Eugene Porter

I told you, it's 'cause I like it.

Maggie Greene

I believe that. I like it, too. I think you like it for a reason. You're not the person people think you are. You want 'em to know who you are.

Eugene Porter

Not following you.

Maggie Greene

If you didn't have that mullet, you'd probably be like everybody else in the labs. But you're not like everybody else. I think a lot of people in your position probably woulda given up, but you didn't.

Eugene Porter

There were people-- a lot of them along the way-- they made sure I didn't give up. It wasn't me remotely.

Maggie Greene

It was. You started this thing. And you're not like Samson. He was kind of a mess.

Eugene Porter

Not following you.

Maggie Greene

Well, his story goes that one day when a lion attacked him, God gave him strength and he tore it apart. Then he goes back one day, he's by himself, and he sees that bees have made a hive in the carcass. So later he tells this riddle to people. "Out of the eater, something to eat. Out of the strong, something sweet." And I always thought, "How the hell are people supposed to know the answer when it's just about his own life? When the only place the answer is, is in his own head?"

Eugene Porter

I got you all to DC, which, in this man's opinion, is damn near nirvana by current standards.

Tara Chambler

Except you didn't get us here. We got you here.

Eugene Porter

But were it not for me and my mention of this city's potential for home and hearth, not a one of you would have had the vision to come here, let alone the cojones to travail such a fraught and punishing pilgrimage. And that, sister, is a fact. That's as cold and hard as they come.

Tara Chambler

God, you're really that much of a coward?

Eugene Porter

Yes, I am. I told you I was.