Van Helsing Quotes

• Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.

  Bram Stoker

  Thinking, Mad, Long

  Bram Stoker (1904). “Dracula”, p.330, Hayes Barton Press

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• I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.

  Bram Stoker

  Heart, Cutting, Want

  Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.167, "F+W Media, Inc."

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• For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing.

  Garrett Fort

  Wise, Men, Single Life

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• Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

  Jim Butcher

  Bible, Shadow Of Death, Death Of A Loved One

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.997, Penguin

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• To have memories of those you have loved and lost is perhaps harder than to have no memories.

  Hugh Jackman

  Memories, Lost, Harder

  FaceBook post by Hugh Jackman from Nov 21, 2011

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• I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- "Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!" He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- "Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!

  Bram Stoker

  Girl, Lasts, Poor

  Bram Stoker (2007). “Dracula”, p.258, Book Jungle

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• We read the [Dracula] scripts, but Jess [De Gouw] and I are completely taken out of the hunts and anything with Van Helsing. We're just living our lives, as our characters.

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen

  Taken, Character, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

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• I would say probably my least favorite costume ever was in 'Van Helsing.' That was a huge pain because it had thigh-high boots with 30 buckles on them that had to be done up individually.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Pain, Boots, Done

  Interview with Ruth Hilton, www.maxim.com. June 29, 2011.

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• A generic vampire tale in the Underworld vein that comes closer to the infamous Van Helsing than a memorable re-interpretation of a legendary monster.

  James Berardinelli

  Memorable, Vampire, Monsters

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• It`s the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Copying, Literature, Scripts

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• I think any supernatural hero today, whether he's a vampire, werewolf, a resuscitated mummy, whatever he is, is going to have to deal with the fact that scientists are going to want to catch him and study him. His big enemy is not going to be Dr. Van Helsing today, it's going to be the doctor who wants to put him in a lab and get his blood for what it can do to cure disease or grant immortality.

  Anne Rice

  Hero, Thinking, Blood

  "With The Wolf Gift, Anne Rice Returns to Supernatural Horror". "Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy" with John Joseph Adams, David Barr Kirtley, www.wired.com. April 18, 2012.

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• I think that's why I gravitated toward slightly broader... ummm, more conceptual kinds of movies, Underworld and Van Helsing. That was as much as I could actually give. But you're actually more of an animated figure. It does go against the grain, as an actor.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Thinking, Giving, Doe

  Allure magazine, March 2008.

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• Those who delight in bad movies and enjoy producing their own unfilmed versions of Mystery Science Theater 3000 may gain a measure of semi-masochistic enjoyment out of Van Helsing . There are quite a few unintentionally funny moments, although the overall experience was too intensely painful for me to be able to advocate it as being "so bad, it's good."

  James Berardinelli

  Delight, May, Able

  Review of "Van Helsing", reelviews.net, 2004.

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• My parents were dismayed by my love of horror movies as a young girl, then even more dismayed when I kept rooting for Dracula to win instead of Van Helsing.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Girl, Winning, Parent

  "Jeaniene Frost, author of 'The Beautiful Ashes'". Interview with Lea Franczak, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. August 26, 2014.

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• Yes, but you are still only human.” I laughed, the sound of it drowned out by the crunch of rocks as the mountain continued to shudder as though in the throes of birth pangs. “So was Van Helsing, yet in every movie, he beat the vampire in the end. Never underestimate the power of humanity.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Rocks, Humanity, Vampire

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• I’d learned that my mother was a badass in disguise. She was Van Helsing in an apron and heels, and—at least for the time being—I couldn’t think of a single thing cooler than that.

  Rachel Vincent

  Mother, Badass, Thinking

  Rachel Vincent (2016). “Rogue”, p.229, MIRA

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• There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route.

  Terry Gilliam

  Want, Sides, Coming Out

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