Edward Van Sloan Quotes

Renfield Oh, Dr. Seward! Send me away from this place! Send me far away!

Van Helsing Why are you so anxious to get away?

Renfield My cries at night, they might disturb miss Mina.

Van Helsing Yes?

Renfield They might give her bad dreams, Professor Van Helsing. Bad dreams!

Van Helsing That sounded like a wolf.

Dr. Jack Seward Yes, it did. But I hardly think there are wolves so near London.

Martin He thinks they're wolves. Me, I've heard them howl at night before. He thinks they're talking to him! He howls and howls back at them. He's crazy!

Van Helsing I might have known. I might have known.

Dr. Muller Put it back. Bury it where you found it. You have read the curse. You dare deft it?

Sir Joseph Whemple In the interest of science. Even if I believed in the curse, I'd go on with my work for the museum. Come back with me, and we'll examine this great find together.

Dr. Muller I cannot condone an act of sacrilege with my presence.

Van Helsing Gentlemen, we are dealing with the undead...Yes, Nosferatu, the undead, the vampire. The vampire attacks the throat. It leaves two little wounds, white with red centers. Dr. Seward, your patient Renfield whose blood I have just analyzed, is obsessed with the idea that he must devour living things in order to sustain his own life.

Dr. Seward Well, Professor Van Helsing, modern medical science does not admit of such a creature. The vampire is a pure myth, superstition.

Van Helsing I may be able to bring you proof, that the superstition of yesterday can become the scientific reality of today.

Dr. Muller Look - the scared spells which protect the soul in its journey to the underworld have been chipped off the coffin. So Imhotep was sentenced to death not only in this world, but in the next.

Assistant Maybe he got too gay with the vestal virgins in the temple.

Dr. Muller Possibly.

Dr. John Garth And when my body is brought back from the autopsy room, apply the tests that i've outlined to you.

Dr. Ralph Howard But...

Dr. John Garth ...and you must forget that we've worked together, that we are friends. You must go on! Learn what you can from the study of my heart, my brain, and my blood!

Van Helsing What have you to do with Dracula?

Renfield Dracula? I've never even heard the name before.

Renfield He came and stood below my window in the moonlight. And he promised me things, not in words, but by doing them.

Van Helsing Doing them?

Renfield By making them happen. A red mist spread over the lawn, coming on like a flame of fire! And then he parted it, and I could see that there were thousands of rats, with their eyes blazing red, like his, only smaller. Then he held up his hand, and they all stopped, and I thought he seemed to be saying: "Rats! Rats! Rats! Thousands! Millions of them! All red-blood! All these will I give you! If you will obey me!

Van Helsing What did he want you to do?

Renfield That which has already been done!

Renfield Isn't this a strange conversation, for men who aren't crazy?

Dr. Jack Seward Renfield! You're compelling me to put you in a straitjacket!

Van Helsing You forget, doctor, that madmen have great strength. Dracula has great strength. Eh, Renfield?

Renfield Words, words, words!

Van Helsing You'll die in torment if you die with innocent blood on your soul.

Renfield God will not damn a poor lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those with weak minds.

Frank Whemple You seem to think this thing has all the devils of hell in it. Why not burn it and be done with it?

Dr. Muller An excellent suggestion...