Charles Dance Quotes

Master Vampire Do your people know how many innocents you have killed? Was it hundreds?

Vlad Yes.

Master Vampire (grabs Vlad by the throat) Lie to me again, and I'll open you from your belly to your brain and feed you your intestines.

Vlad Thousands!

Master Vampire And when you put them to the stake, what did you feel? Shame? Horror? Power? ANSWER ME!!!

Vlad Nothing! I felt nothing. A greater crime than the act itself.

Alan Jonah Listen...While you were sitting comfortably in some laboratory, we've been fighting, for decades in one dirty war after another. I've seen human nature firsthand, and I'm here to tell you that it doesn't get any better. It just gets worse. So I'm sorry that Monster Zero isn't exactly what we were expecting. But we opened Pandora's box, and there's no closing it now.

Benedict I understand you are interested in drug dealers.

Jack Yes.

Danny Jack, that's him, the henchman with the glass eye.

Jack Sir, are you a henchman?

Benedict No, I only go as far as lackey. Anything else?

Jack Yeah, take off your sunglasses.

Benedict Who's asking?

Jack The Tin Man.

Benedict Well, Tin Man, suppose you hit the bricks.

Jack Nah, they're the wrong color.

Benedict Are they? Oh dear, by all means let's change them. Would arterial red suit you? Make no mistake, they are exceptionally well-trained. I snap my fingers again and sometime tomorrow, you emerge from several canine recta. Or you and Toto can go back to the land of Oz. Questions?

Jack Yeah... two of them. Why am I wasting my time on a dimestore putz like you, when I could be doing something more dangerous... like rearranging my sock drawers? And two - how exactly are you going to snap your fingers, after I rip off both of your thumbs?

Benedict Have a nice day.

Benedict I should tell you that I have killed people smarter and younger than you.

Benedict If God was a villain - he'd be me.

Alan Jonah I thought we were going to awaken them gradually, one at a time.

Dr. Emma Russell I'm not the one doing this.

Alan Jonah Long live the king.

Madison Russell You're a monster.

Master Vampire Why spill blood if not for the pleasure of it?

Vlad Because men do not fear swords. They fear monsters. They run from them. By putting one village to the stake, I spared ten more. Sometimes the world no longer needs a hero. Sometimes what it needs... is a monster.

Master Vampire And you believe you know what it means to be a monster? Hmm?... You have no idea... but I'm going to show you.

Master Vampire (to Vlad) Most men reek of fear. In you I smell hope.

King Tallious It is finally time for you to become a man. You must journey with your brother to rescue his bride.

Alan Turing I like solving problems, Commander. And Enigma is the most difficult problem in the world.

Commander Denniston Enigma isn't difficult, it's impossible. The Americans, the Russians, the French, the Germans, everyone thinks Enigma is unbreakable.

Alan Turing Good. Let me try and we'll know for sure, won't we?

Master Vampire (to Dracula) For centuries, these moldering walls have been my gallows. For I am bound to this cave, condemned by one who turned me. Oh, and I have waited an eternity for a man of your strength, your gifts, your will. A man worthy of the dark and all its powers. For if I am your salvation, you are mine.

Master Vampire (as moves to follow Vlad and Mina) Let the games begin.

Thomas Between the first and second Purges, Lycan youth rallied in the same way. Against the prudence of their elders, their calls for violent action carried the day. The result? The werewolves are nearly extinct. Is that what you wish for us? Extinction.

Vivaldi What is this, Benedict? First you're my friend, now you turn a... 360 on me?!

Benedict 180, you stupid spaghetti-slurping cretin! 180! If I did a 360, I'd go completely around and end up back where I started.

Vivaldi ...What?

Benedict Trust me.

Raymond Stockbridge Well I think it's ridiculous. I'm here to shoot.

Louisa Stockbridge Darling, it's a relief to me to sit next to someone who isn't deaf in one ear.

Raymond Stockbridge How's that?

Mr. Bennet (to Parson Collins) My daughters are trained for battle, sir, not the kitchen.

Alan Jonah We'll take it.

Mr. Bennet Daughters do not dance well with masticated brains.

Benedict HELLO!? I've just shot somebody and I did it on purpose!

Thomas Between the first and second Purges, Lycan youth rallied in the same way. Against the prudence of their elders, their calls for violent action carried the day. The result? The werewolves are nearly extinct. Is that what you wish for us? Extinction?

Mr. Bennet Lizzy, an unhappy alternative is before you. Your mother will never speak to you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins. And I will never speak to you again if you do.

Mrs. Bennet (suddenly outraged) Who will maintain you when your father is dead? No one, Elizabeth Bennet! You shall become a poor and pathetic spinster!

Elizabeth Bennet (almost in tears) Anything! Anything is to be preferred or endured rather than marrying without affection!

Master Vampire There is always a price for power.

Mr. Bennet (in narration) It wasn't always like this my dear daughters. As the century began Britannia was rich with the fruits of worldwide trade. From the colonies there came not just silks and spices but a virulent and abominable plague. Naturally many suspected the French were to blame. Are you surprised? Once bitten, the newly infected were filled with an insatiable hunger for the brains of the living. Millions perished, only to rise again. As legions of undead. So certain it would seem the end of days had come. But even the four horsemen of the apocalypse are said to have ascended from hell. To protect the living, the Grand Barrier was built. A one hundred foot wall, encircling London. Then excavation began on the royal canal. A vast mote thirty fathoms deep surrounding both the city and its walls. The land twixt the two fortifications became known as The Inbetween. At this time it became fashionable to study the deadly arts of the orient. Japan for the wealthy. China for the wise. In the second battle of Kent, one of the bridges that cross the royal canal was breached. Ravenous zombie hordes massacred every villager of The Inbetween. It was said the sight of this slaughter drove young King George mad. When the battle was finally won, he ordered the destruction of all the bridges, save one. Hingham Bridge. Which to this day remains the only means by which to cross the royal canal. Many believed the enemy was finally vanquished. The gentry began to leave the safe confines of London's defenses for their newly fortified country estates. But vigilance is still every essence. Remember this. Keep your swords as sharp as your wit. For the ultimate battle between the living and the undead has yet to be staged.

Master Vampire I have been waiting an eternity for a man of your strength to arrive. But what kind of man crawls into his own grave in search of hope?

Vlad A desperate one.

Master Vampire Drink. You will have a taste of my power: the strength of a hundred men, the speed of a falling star, dominion over the night and all its creatures, to see and hear through their senses... even heal grievous wounds.

Vlad At what price?

Master Vampire Once you drink, your thirst for human blood will be insatiable. But if you can resist for three days, you will return to your mortal state, having sampled my power and, perhaps, saved your people.

Vlad And if I feed?

Master Vampire The price would be worse than if you'd never stepped in here. For I will be set free, having granted the darkness a worthy offering. You will become its vessel, as I am. A scourge on this earth, destined to destroy everything you hold dear: your lands, your people, even your precious wife and son.

Vlad I would die before I harmed them.

Master Vampire Indeed you will, I'm afraid. I, however, will at last be free to unleash my wrath against the one who betrayed me. And one day, I will call on you to serve me, my pawn, in an immortal game of revenge.

Vlad This is not a game!

Master Vampire Ahh, but what better way to endure eternity? For this, little prince, is the ultimate game. Light versus dark, hope versus despair. And all the world's fate hangs in the balance.

Vlad Then it will be my great pleasure to disappoint you.

Master Vampire Drink. Let the games begin.