Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

Tom Waits: R.M. Renfield

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Quotes 

• Renfield : I'm no lunatic man. I'm a sane man fighting for his soul.

• [Renfield holds a plate of bugs] 

  Renfield : Would you care for a hors d'oeuvre, Dr. Seward or a canapé?

  Doctor Jack Seward : No, thank you, Mr. Renfield. How are you feeling tonight?

  Renfield : Far better than you, my lovesick doctor.

  Doctor Jack Seward : Is my personal life of interest to you?

  Renfield : Of course it is. All life interests me.

  Doctor Jack Seward : Your diet, Mr. Renfield, is disgusting.

  Renfield : Actually, they're perfectly nutritious. You see, each life that I ingest gives back life to me.

  Doctor Jack Seward : The fly gives you life?

  Renfield : Certainly. But you might as well ask a man to eat molecules with a pair of chopsticks than to interest me in lesser carnivore.

  Doctor Jack Seward : I shall have to invent a new classification of a lunatic for you. What about spiders? Spiders eat the flies.

  Renfield : Yes, spiders eat them.

  Doctor Jack Seward : What about sparrows?

  Renfield : Oh, yes. Did you say sparrows?

  Doctor Jack Seward : Something larger perhaps?

  Renfield : Oh, yes. A kitten. I beg you. A little, sleek - a playful kitten. Something I can teach. Something I can feed. No one would refuse me a kitten.

  Doctor Jack Seward : Wouldn't you prefer a cat?

  Renfield : Oh, yes, a big cat! My salvation depends upon it!

  Doctor Jack Seward : Your salvation?

  Renfield : Yes! I need lives. I need lives for the master!

  Doctor Jack Seward : What? What master?

  Renfield : The master will come, and he has promised to make me immortal!

  Doctor Jack Seward : How?

  [Renfield suddenly attacks Seward and the guards rush in to subdue him] 

  Renfield : The blood is the life! The blood is the life!