Matt Smith Quotes

I'd seen 'Interview with A Vampire' and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, 'I love vampires; I have to do a show about vampires.'

I don't want to be a sexy vampire.

Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.

Vampires were an excellent springboard. I still love them; they fascinate me.

I am a big fan of vampires. I've always been obsessed with the genre, and the beautiful romanticism and erotic kind of nature of the immortal being, the undead who lives on human blood.

I think that vampires are sexy. The idea of them being untouchable has been really exciting for people.

Into every generation comes a vampire.

I thought about how I'd play a vampire for awhile because I grew up watching vampire films and reading books.

I know about various fictional and folkloric vampire mythoses the way other people know about the personal life of celebrities.

Dracula can sustain many interpretations and exists in many phantasmal forms... and Johnny Alucard is my attempt to explore the multiplicity of Draculas unloosed on the world in the long wake of Stoker's novel.

I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video.

I love vampire movies. I think they are sexy.

I was obsessed with vampires when I was 13 or 14.

I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.

I'm 48, and I have been in love with vampires since I was six. I was born in 1962, so I've been through three or four waves of vampires. When I was growing up, we had vampire shows and movies. We were still dealing with Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and the old Christopher Lee vampires.

I want to be a blonde vampire. Catherine Deneuve was a blonde vampire, and she was my favourite vampire ever.

But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.

'Interview with a Vampire' made vampires sexy.

I don't want to be a vampire. A lot of other people do and I think it's that dual nature - we have, you know, terrifying/intriguing.

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

My favourite vampires are all very scary indeed. So the idea of falling in love with one is just weird to me.

Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want.

At some point in my life, I wanted to be in a vampire movie.

I have no intention of making vampires cool. Absolutely not. They're not cool.

The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren't monsters from the get-go, they're human beings first... and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be.