Top 35 Dracula Quotes

It’s funny, the power of music. I was watching ‘Dracula,’ the 1931 version with Bela Lugosi, and the only music you hear is at the very beginning of the credits. There’s not one other piece of music; it’s all silent. It’s unbelievable, and it’s very effective, too.

I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me – I don’t remember when I wasn’t playing piano. My second grade talent show was the first time I performed my own thing. I dressed up as Dracula and played a song called ‘Monster Rock’ that I wrote. And I won.

Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula,’ in my reading, is really obviously about disease and our relation to disease.

The books that stuck with me most as a child were ‘A Wrinkle In Time’, ‘Dracula’, ‘Hatchet’, ‘Bunnicula’, ‘White Fang’, and this YA/kids’ book called ‘Nobody’s Fault’ where a kid drowns one weekend as friends play around a flooded ditch.

I’ve likened Mignolet to worse than Dracula because at least Dracula comes out of his coffin now and then. He seems to stay on his line and that’s it.

I had always liked, well, who didn’t love Lestat and fall in love with ‘Interview with the Vampire,’ and ‘Nosferatu,’ and Coppola’s ‘Dracula’ with the awesome costumes? So I loved all that.

Dracula, if he could see modern corporations, wouldn’t like them much. He took care of his people, at least as he saw it. They had very little freedom, but they had a protector.

You know honestly I think there’s a Dracula, a Wolf Man, and a Frankenstein’s Monster in all of us. They are sides of our own character so that’s why I think we can relate to them in terms of a ‘I know how that feels’ kind of thing.

My favorite vampire movie used to be Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula,’ but now ’30 Days of Night’ took its place. I think it’s brilliant that somebody would be so thoughtful as to put these vampires in a place like Barrow, Alaska, where there are actually ’30 Days of Night.’

Me and my parents would watch old ‘Frankenstein’ and ‘Dracula’ and all those old black and white movies – as a kid, I’d lie in bed thinking that they would come out at night.

I certainly didn’t want to make another movie that’s ‘just another Dracula film.’

When I started writing about vampires, I swore that I wouldn’t touch the ‘Dracula’ legend because it’s been done too many times.

It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.

There was one vampire movie that Gerard Butler was in, ‘Dracula 2000,’ and they touched on something interesting, but it only worked in the context of that particular movie, which was that the original vampire was Judas.

I saw ‘Dracula,’ ‘Frankenstein,’ ‘The Wolf Man,’ ‘The Invisible Man.’ I saw all those guys on the big screen at RKO in the Bronx. I just always loved that stuff. I loved other stuff, too. That’s the thing. That wasn’t all I wanted to be.

Vampires used to be like Dracula, and now they’re young teenage kids, so yeah, I like that.

I’d rather be with Dracula than the Wolfman.

Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.

This is an area you always need to address when you’re dealing with Dracula is the fact that there is something kind of attractive in his darkness – which there isn’t in other horror characters.

People called me sharktooth, Dracula. I got made fun of so much cause I couldn’t afford braces.

I find inspiration in the movies I’ve loved, especially all films ever made about Dracula.

‘Zolten’ is a common Hungarian name, it’s my wife’s maiden name and most importantly, it’s the name of Dracula’s dog.

When I was younger, I used to watch all the black-and-white ‘Dracula’s and ‘Frankenstein’s.

To be in something as iconic as a Dracula film, and to be playing Jessica van Helsing, who would have been Dracula’s choice for a bride, through history and beyond the grave, was a thrill.

I read ‘Dracula’ in high school. I’ve been around vampires forever.

For my part, if the audience wanted to see Dracula again, I would be happy to reprise the role. It is an immortal character that can appear anywhere because it lies beyond time. Possibilities are endless.

Frankenstein’ was more programmed, but ‘Dracula’ we did as it came along because at the beginning we weren’t sure how it was going to end – it wasn’t written in the script.

So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of ‘Frankenstein,’ ‘Wolfman,’ ‘Dracula,’ ‘Mummy,’ all the Universal stuff.

When I was a kid, going to Universal Studios, which was all I wanted to do, all the time, there was a show that was all the monsters, and I loved that show. I was obsessed with Dracula. I was obsessed with Frankenstein. I was obsessed with the Wolfman.

To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.

Dracula appeared at a time of great technological revolution, utilizing telegraphs, typing machines, and blood transfusions.

I’m very laid-back, and I meet people just by accident – never through agencies or anything like that. I met Paul Morrissey, who directed me in ‘Dracula’ and ‘Frankenstein,’ on a plane from Rome to Munich. He asked for my telephone number and wrote it in his passport.

I definitely fell in love with ‘Dracula’ when I was 13. I found it so fascinating and so dark and romantic.

Most vampires I have discovered are men for some reason. I guess it’s because of Dracula; people are kind of feeding off that.

The first film I can remember seeing on TV was ‘The Brides of Dracula.’ I was instantly hooked.