Dracula (1979)

Frank Langella: Count Dracula

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Quotes 

• Dr. Jack Seward : Count, some wine?

  Count Dracula : No thank you, Doctor. I never drink wine.

• Count Dracula : Jonathan Harker tells me you speak some Romanian.

  Lucy Seward : Well, hardly, I know...

  [Dracula says a sentence in Romanian and Lucy smiles] 

  Count Dracula : There, you do understand.

  Lucy Seward : [still smiling]  Not really. I have no idea what you said.

  Count Dracula : I said it would be nice to see you smile.

  Lucy Seward : [pause]  Then you should be pleased.

  Count Dracula : Oh, I am.

• Prof. Abraham Van Helsing : [looking at himself in a mirror]  Ach, the devil.

  Count Dracula : I'm not as bad as that.

• Count Dracula : In the past 500 years, Professor, those who have crossed my path have all died, and some not pleasantly.

• Count Dracula : [to Lucy]  Now it is you, my best beloved one. You will be flesh of my flesh, blood of my blood. You will cross land and sea to do my bidding. I need your blood. I need...

• Count Dracula : Listen to them - the children of the night. What sad music they make!

• Lucy Seward : Before you arrived we were looking at the ship's log.

  Count Dracula : It wasn't lost at sea?

  Lucy Seward : No. The very last entry was a strange word. A word that Mina thought meant "undead".

  Count Dracula : Undead?

  Mina Van Helsing : Yes. "Nosferatu".

  Count Dracula : Ah! It means "not dead".

• Count Dracula : You are a wise man, Professor, for someone who has not lived even a single lifetime.

  Prof. Abraham Van Helsing : You flatter me, Count.

  Count Dracula : But not wise enough to return to Holland at once,now that you have learned what you have learned.

  Prof. Abraham Van Helsing : I prefer to remain.

• Count Dracula : I am the *king* of my kind!

• Milo Renfield : Please master. Hurt me, torture me, I deserve it. But please... don't kill me.

  Count Dracula : Ah, Renfield... you disappoint me so.

• [Dracula, Lucy,and Mina are discussing "Nosferatu"] 

  Mina Van Helsing : Dead! Undead! I don't care, they all frighten me!

  Lucy Seward : Oh, I love to be frightened!

  Count Dracula : [glances at her, then, after a pause]  *Do* you?

• Count Dracula : Lucy, come! Come to me!

  [Lucy runs into Dracula's arms, and he embraces her] 

  Count Dracula : No, you must go on a bit longer as a creature of the sun. Only until we have left behind those who would destroy us.

  Lucy Seward : And then?

  Count Dracula : Then you will join me on a higher plane... feeding on them. We will create more of our kind, Lucy.

• Count Dracula : You fools! Do you think with your crosses and your wafers you can destroy me? Me! You do not know how many men have come against me. I am the *king* of my kind! You have accomplished nothing, Van Helsing. Time is on my side. In a century, when you are dust, I shall wake and call Lucy, my queen, from her grave. I have in my time had many brides, Mr. Harker. But I shall set Lucy above them all.

  Jonathan Harker : You won't get Lucy!

  Count Dracula : She's mine already.

• Count Dracula : I have buried many friends, and I too am weary.

• Milo Renfield : I've been bitten by a bat.

  Count Dracula : [sarcastically]  Yes, I see.

• Jonathan Harker : COUNT DRACULA!

  Count Dracula : You needn't shout, Mr. Harker. You frightened me.

  Jonathan Harker : I'm sorry. I had a key.

  [holds key up] 

  Jonathan Harker : I had to let myself in.

  Count Dracula : I wonder where Renfield can be.

  Jonathan Harker : I don't know. I knocked but he didn't...

  Count Dracula : [interrupts]  Yes, well, the man is worthless.

• Count Dracula : If, at any time, my company does not please you, you will have only yourself to blame for an acquaintance who seldom forces himself but is difficult to be rid of.

• Prof. Abraham Van Helsing : [Dracula has crept in on Van Helsing]  I did not hear you come in, Count.

  Count Dracula : I am often told I have a light footstep.

  Prof. Abraham Van Helsing : I was looking in the mirror. It reflects the whole room, and yet I cannot see...

  Count Dracula : [suddenly picks up a lamp and hurls it at the mirror in which he shows no reflection, making Van Helsing duck for cover. Pause]  Forgive me, Doctor. I dislike mirrors, they are the playthings of man's vanity.

  Prof. Abraham Van Helsing : You are a most unusual creature, Count Dracul.

  Count Dracula : [smiling]  Yes...