Top 130 Vampire Quotes

Richelle Mead’s ‘Vampire Academy’ saga is set to be the next young adult paranormal series to become a household name.

I’ve seen little pieces of ‘Interview with a Vampire’ when it was on TV, but I kind of always go yuck! I don’t watch R-rated movies, so that really cuts down on a lot of the horror.

My agent is a vampire, my lawyer is a vampire, they’re all vampires, but they don’t suck your blood, they take your money! Vampires are everywhere. It just depends what they’re running after.

I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you’ve made it.

I feel like no matter what I’m on, whether it’s ‘Tiny Titans’ or ‘Swamp Thing’ or ‘American Vampire,’ there will be an element of horror in it. Which would be fun for ‘Tiny Titans.’

I grew up watching ‘Dawson’s Creek,’ and I started watching ‘The Vampire Diaries’ when I was auditioning because I wanted to get a feel of it… then I totally got hooked!

‘The Vampire Diaries’ is a serialized drama. It deserved its final chapter.

I don’t really know what it is about vampires that makes them such a powerful symbol, metaphor, whatever in people’s consciousness. But I do know they’re tremendously powerful. I mean, there’s a vampire on ‘Sesame Street.’ And Count Chocula. I don’t know why it’s so powerful.

I was the lead in ‘Interview With The Vampire’, until Tom Cruise decided he was interested. I was in ‘The Wings Of The Dove’ with Uma Thurman, until that got cancelled. I was in ‘Shakespeare In Love’ with Julia Roberts, until that fell apart.

I like ‘Vampire Diaries’ because it has great stories.

The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.

I think that with ‘The Vampire Diaries,’ you never know what’s going to happen, and I don’t think the characters necessarily know, either. So you can only weigh so much, and then it might just come down to ‘kill or be killed.’

You know, a vampire book is not a book to be the vehicle for big themes and stuff, where sometimes when you’re dealing with art or the life of Christ or the oeuvre of Shakespeare, you know, it’s a little more ambitious.

I’m such a fan of Daniel Waters, who wrote the script, and also Mark Waters, his brother, who directed. ‘Vampire Academy’ has, I think, an iconic director.

The vampire story is something that has existed since ‘Nosferatu,’ and I don’t think it’s gonna go away.

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

‘Bad Blood’ tells the story of Trick, a teenage slacker on the losing side of a fight with cancer. When he’s attacked by a vampire, he figures it’s game over. Except that the chemo drugs in Trick’s blood poison the vampire.

If people recognize me from ‘The Vampire Diaries,’ they just give me that look that’s like, ‘I think I know you. I think I saw you boxing in 1912, but I’m not sure,’ because it was such a short-lived run.

I’ve noticed that when people make vampire movies, they’re always determining which of the rules they’re going to stick to and which they’ll abandon.

I’ve never seen ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer.’

I got my feet wet in a couple of shows. I did a cameo on my favorite show, ‘The Vampire Diaries.’ And I guest starred on a show called ‘Kickin’ It’ on Disney.

What can I say about ‘The Lost Boys’? Oh my God: I love it; I hate it; I’m scared of it. I had a massive crush on them all when I was young. And I wanted to be a vampire. It’s so stylized; it’s the type of film I grew up on. To me, it’s always at the top.

I grew up watching ‘Dawson’s Creek,’ and I started watching ‘The Vampire Diaries’ when I was auditioning because I wanted to get a feel of it… then I totally got hooked!

I want to be a vampire. They’re the coolest monsters.

I went to school, I got good marks, I had a very low key after-school job, and I spent a lot of time watching ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ and ‘Dawson’s Creek.’

I think the reason vampire movies have been so popular over time is that they share so many parallels with human beings.

I was under the impression that if you’ve read one vampire series for young adults, you’ve read them all.

I don’t want to be a vampire. A lot of other people do and I think it’s that dual nature – we have, you know, terrifying/intriguing.

One of my favorite vampire movies is ‘Nosferatu,’ which has a palpable sense of dread that’s a pre-war dread.

I was quite discerning the first year and when I was doing ‘The Vampire Diaries’ thing I was like, ‘I’m really not sure if I want to do this; it’s this whole teen thing, which I’ve done in England.’ My agent was like, ‘Don’t be silly, you’ll make great money and everything.’ But I wasn’t sure.

In the long run, I think I like ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ better as a television series, because it had so much more time and room and space to grow.

Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.

I don’t feel I fit in with morning television because I’m like a vampire and I like to stay up late.

‘The Vampire Diaries’ is a great show, but it’s on the verge of being overcrowded. The amount of characters, a lot of them don’t get screen time because there’s so much to put in, and it has to center around the love triangle.

The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people, I ain’t no vampire!

The vampire underworld is much larger than most people could imagine. It exists in all the cities mentioned in the book, but also in many, many more. Teenagers, especially, seem to like to act out vampire fantasies.

I feel like Caroline Forbes is such a crucial element… on ‘The Vampire Diaries.’

I’m a huge fan of ‘The Vampire Chronicles,’ both the Neil Jordan film and the books themselves.

My grandfather used to be a dentist, and he made me these retainers that have vampire teeth on them.

Similarities in the vampire genre are so rampant that there’s really no such thing as an original idea – only an original take on an idea that’s been done before.

I’m not a vampire movie fan, per se. That’s not to say that I haven’t enjoyed movies with vampires in them.

There’s no set-in-stone way to be a vampire, especially with the evil ones.

‘The Count’ wasn’t a real stretch. I was doing pretty generic Bela Lugosi bad vampire on purpose. It was supposed to be lame. I didn’t put fangs on; it was a guy who was just going through the motions. I drew on the widow’s peak with eyebrow pencil and wore a turtleneck, not a tux.

Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.

I like the vampire films because of the fantasy of it.

I would never say no to continuing to explore the – somebody coined the phrase for me the other day, which I love – ‘TVDU,’ ‘The ‘Vampire Diaries’ Universe.’ I have no desire to exploit it, but I also know that there are plenty of opportunities for stories left to be told.

If you’re cast on ‘The Vampire Diaries,’ the likelihood of you dying is very good.

Vampire teeth really aren’t very efficient, are they? It looks very messy. I’m not sure it’s the best way to get a pint off anyone.

The people I worked for before I was doing ‘Vampire Diaries’ were very generous to me.

While ‘Twilight”s popularity was undeniable among both the teenagers they were aimed at and middle-aged women who flocked to the series in droves, Meyer has drawn her share of criticism for her writing. Some feminist critics assailed what they saw as Bella’s mooning over her vampire lover.

My all-time favorite is Brad Pitt in ‘Interview with the Vampire.’ He’s so sexy. I’m a fan of anything he does, but in that film he’s a vampire who doesn’t want to feed. There’s something super sexy about someone who has to feed to survive but doesn’t want to do it.

Sci-fi fans are the best fans you can have. You could be doing the worst piece of tat which might have a robot or vampire in, and some people will become obsessed by it and know every little detail. ‘Being Human’ has crossed over from sci-fi fans to being a drama that everyone can enjoy.

Into every generation comes a vampire.

I’d studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.

I’ve always had an interest in vampire films – not just ‘Nosferatu,’ but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara, Coppola, Neil Jordan.

I’m like an old vampire, so it’s important to talk to young people.

As you study vampire legend throughout history, it goes back to almost every culture. South Africa, Indonesia, crazy places have that legend and that idea of immortality.

I know about various fictional and folkloric vampire mythoses the way other people know about the personal life of celebrities.

I wanted to make an adult vampire film, not something for children.

I remember being a kid and sleeping over at my friend’s house and staying up late and watching ‘Nosferatu.’ Vampire movies are supposed to be secret and bad. They should be rated R.