Michael Nouri: Count Dracula

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Count Dracula : [narrating]  Every living person hungers to live beyond their years - to be immortal. This is the gift that I will share with Mary after I have bitten her twice more, but danger lurks. Never have I know emotion as bitter as the jealousy Antoinette harbors for Mary. It seems greater than even the loathing that drives Van Helsing to seek and defile the few remaining coffins with my native soil. Tonight Antoinette allowed her emotions to carry her too far...

• [Count Dracula has just rescued Mary from the jealous Antoinette] 

  Antoinette : She will never lover you as I do. She is not worthy of your gift of immortality. I'm the only one who knows how to please you. You look pale, my darling. I want to be yours completely. Deliver me into darkness tonight for eternity.

  Count Dracula : You speak of eternity as if it were some extended garden party - to be together for ever, to live, to love, to partake. The fact of immortality is frought with clever foes like Van Helsing; men who devote themselves to our destruction. You are young, Antoinette. Possibly with time, you will earn back the trust that your little escapade has cost you - but you only then will I take you.

• Count Dracula : Your grandfather stalked me like a cat for years, always one step behind me with a wooden stake ready to *plunge* into my heart. It was his persecution that drove me from my homeland. Now you follow his lead like a hangman's apprentice. You may not believe it, Van Helsing, but I do not enjoy taking your life. It is something that you force me to do.

• Count Dracula : Your perspective is as small as your life span. I have lived 512 years, my friend and they have been full years - rich in culture, experience. You life compare to mine, like a grain of sand on the beach.

  Kurt Von Helsing : You have no life. You know only death!

  Count Dracula : Death? Death is something I will never know. Death is reserved for mortal men - as you will discover soon enough.

  [Dracula stomps on Kurt's hands as he dangles far above the warehouse floor]