Joseph Morgan 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 just love vampires.

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.

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

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.

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.

I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara, Coppola, Neil Jordan.

'Interview with a Vampire' made vampires sexy.

I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies.

I don't want to be a sexy vampire.

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

I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.

The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.

Actually I liked that 'Let the Right One In,' that Swedish vampire movie.

Vampires used to be like Dracula, and now they're young teenage kids, so yeah, I like that.

I love vampire movies. I think they are sexy.

It's cool to play a vampire and be a part of this new, hot genre.

It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism.

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

Interview with a Vampire was lots of sex, so I'm not sure.

I wanted to make an adult vampire film, not something for children.

The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.

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

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

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.