Count Dracula (1977 TV Movie)

Louis Jourdan: Count Dracula

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Quotes 

• Count Dracula : Welcome to my house, Mister Harker. Come freely. Go safely.

  Jonathan Harker : Count Dracula?

  Count Dracula : I am Count Dracula. Will you come in?... And, please, leave here some of the happiness that you bring.

• Count Dracula : We must survive, all of us. The blood of a human for me, a cooked bird for you. Where is the difference?

  Jonathan Harker : The difference between good and evil.

• Count Dracula : I expect you are anxious to return to England.

  Jonathan Harker : I should like to start back soon, it's true.

  Count Dracula : Very well. Write a letter to your friends, saying that you have already left the Castle and arrived at Bistritz, where you are awaiting the weekly express.

  Jonathan Harker : [suspiciously]  May I ask with what object, sir?

  Count Dracula : The posts are few, and uncertain. Writing now will ease the minds of Mister Hawkins and your fiancee.

  Jonathan Harker : Count Dracula.

  Count Dracula : Yes?

  Jonathan Harker : I have been struck by a curious fact.

  Count Dracula : Yes?

  Jonathan Harker : I've not seen a single servant since I've been here. Yet my meals are served. My bed is made. Tell me, are we alone in the Castle?

  Count Dracula : Alone? How could one be alone in this castle? In its most the past, the *living* past is present, surrounding us.

  Jonathan Harker : That does *not* answer my question, sir. I've been here for three weeks and have not once stepped outside the Castle.

  Count Dracula : I would gladly have shown you the countryside if you had expressed a wish to do so.

  Jonathan Harker : When would we have gone? In the dead of night? I've never set eyes on you during the day.

  Count Dracula : I have a large estate to manage.

  Jonathan Harker : Nor have I seen you eat.

  Count Dracula : I eat alone.

  Jonathan Harker : [getting visibly upset]  And who would have driven the coach?

  Count Dracula : [maintains calm]  My driver.

  Jonathan Harker : You are lying, Count Dracula.

  Count Dracula : You are losing your temper, Mister Harker.

  Jonathan Harker : [calming down]  Who took me back to my room last night?

  Count Dracula : Back to your room? What do you mean?

  Jonathan Harker : I slept by mistake in the library. I witnessed a... a nightmare, and woke up in my bed! How did I get there?

  Count Dracula : Am I to be held responsible for a vivid imagination?

• Jonathan Harker : You must know a great deal of the history of Transylvania.

  Count Dracula : All there is to know, I'm afraid. Sometimes, I think, too much.

• Vampire : [after Dracula has stopped them from feeding on Harker]  You never loved me.

  Vampire : You never loved.

  Vampire : You never loved.

  Count Dracula : [giving each a comforting touch]  Oh yes I have.

  [spreads his cape and beckons them] 

  Count Dracula : Come.

  [the three all come in close to him, giggling] 

  Count Dracula : Shhh. I need him for a while. Then you shall have him. He will be yours. All yours. Now go, I must awaken him.

  Vampire : And tonight, you can give us... nothing?

  Vampire : Nothing?

  [Dracula points to a carpet bag with something small and alive in it - the women pounce on it] 

• Count Dracula : [after Van Helsing repels him by holding up a crucifix and intoning a prayer]  Ah yes, it always sounds so much more impressive in Latin.

• Count Dracula : I am bound to this earth, I make it my domain. You will die, in your miserable allotted span. I have centuries before me.

  Jonathan Harker : Why in God's name did you ever leave your castle?

  Count Dracula : We must recruit disciples - just as your leader has done.

  Abraham Van Helsing : You shall not capture anymore souls.

  Count Dracula : Souls?

  [laughs scornfully] 

  Count Dracula : There is no blood to drink from souls - - if there be such things.

  Abraham Van Helsing : We are pledged to rid the world of you.

  Count Dracula : It will not be easy. I do not die like the bee when I string once - - I become stronger.

• Abraham Van Helsing : We guard ourselves from your touch.

  Count Dracula : Using a cross as a talisman. A symbol of torture, and of humiliation.

  Abraham Van Helsing : A symbol of trial, and trouble... by which our Christian Faith is tested.

• [Renfield is asleep at the table in his cell] 

  Count Dracula : Good evening.

  [Renfield awakes with a start. He looks around the room. His eyes fix on the window. Dracula is suspended outside his window] 

  Renfield : Master... Ohh... What do you offer me?

  Count Dracula : More insects, with steel and sapphire on their wings.

  Renfield : Ohhh...

  [pants] 

  Renfield : ...Yes! Yes!

  Count Dracula : Moths... With skull and crossbones on their backs.

  Renfield : [pants harder]  Yes!... Yes!

  Count Dracula : Blood... Blood... Life... Years of life.

  Renfield : Yes! Hold me, Master. Give me eternal life!

• Count Dracula : Do not help these men to fight against me. They are superstitious fools; they have been losing now for 2000 years. Do you know the significance of the kiss? You are nourishment to me. Blood of my blood. Flesh of my flesh. My beautiful wine press. We shall cross land and sea together. Land and sea.