Joanna Lumley Quotes

For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.

Vampires have become tragic or romantic figures. Vampire are largely seduction tales. They're no longer the scary creature in the dark.

Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' was a story about the fear of immigration; the bad old bloodsucker swooping in from Eastern Europe and also preying upon 'our' vulnerable women.

I feel like I'm Dracula, dude, like, um... Nosferatu, you know.

I find inspiration in the movies I've loved, especially all films ever made about Dracula.

There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.

I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome . . .

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.

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

Vampires to me have always been very sexy.

I definitely fell in love with 'Dracula' when I was 13. I found it so fascinating and so dark and romantic.

For my part, if the audience wanted to see Dracula again, I would be happy to reprise the role. It is an immortal character that can appear anywhere because it lies beyond time. Possibilities are endless.

I'd rather be with Dracula than the Wolfman.

Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.

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

When I heard that 'Dracula' was being made into a series by NBC and Carnival, I couldn't resist. I knew they would do something interesting with it. A period drama with a supernatural twist seemed like a whole lot of fun.

I've always been a Dracula/vampire aficionado, being half-Romanian myself. Dracula has always been close to my heart - in fact, I have a first edition of Bram Stoker's book. I read it over and over again as a young kid.

The vampire is the new James Dean.

A vampire victim. I'd never seen a lone kill. They were like potato chips; once a vamp tasted them, he couldn't stop at just one.

Today, Mr. Darcy is a vampire.

I am Dracula.... I bid you welcome.

Vampires have always been hot. They are one of our most durable monsters. It's one of those stories that galvanizes us early and it's always going on.

And I had always liked vampire stories because they are great material that can be refashioned in lots of ways.

Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.

I wondered what would be the most humiliating way possible to be turned into a vampire - a story that a vampire would be embarrassed to share with their vampire buddies over a nice glass of Type O.