Dark Shadows Quotes
Carolyn Stoddard: [about Barnabas]He's not staying with us forever, is he?
David Collins: I like him.
David Collins: I like him.
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Barnabas Collins: I seek advice on the art of courting a woman of this time.
Carolyn Stoddard: You obviously mean Vicky.
Barnabas Collins: She has the most fertile birthing hips I've ever set eyes upon.
Carolyn Stoddard: You're weird.
Barnabas Collins: [mistakenly flattered]You really think so?
Carolyn Stoddard: You obviously mean Vicky.
Barnabas Collins: She has the most fertile birthing hips I've ever set eyes upon.
Carolyn Stoddard: You're weird.
Barnabas Collins: [mistakenly flattered]You really think so?
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Barnabas Collins: I have spent the last two centuries locked in a box, with nothing to keep me occupied but a glimpse into the dark shadows of my soul.
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[Barnabas catches Victoria at Widow's Hill]Barnabas Collins: [embraces her]I thought I'd lost you!
Victoria Winters: You already have. We can never be together, Barnabas: I belong in the light and you belong in the shadows, I'll age and die while you live on.
Barnabas Collins: We can still find a way...
Victoria Winters: There's only one way.
Barnabas Collins: [immediately understands]No! I will not make you suffer as I have! [Victoria smiles at him, and falls]
Barnabas Collins: NO!
Victoria Winters: You already have. We can never be together, Barnabas: I belong in the light and you belong in the shadows, I'll age and die while you live on.
Barnabas Collins: We can still find a way...
Victoria Winters: There's only one way.
Barnabas Collins: [immediately understands]No! I will not make you suffer as I have! [Victoria smiles at him, and falls]
Barnabas Collins: NO!
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Barnabas Collins: [dodging a vomit projectile from Angelique]Missed me! [takes a hit]
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[at a hippie commune]Barnabas Collins: I am reminded of a line from Erich Segal's 'Love Story': Love means never having to say you're sorry. However, it is with sincere regret that I must now kill all of you. [screaming is heard at the commune]
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[Barnabas arrives at Collinwood in 1972]Barnabas Collins: My beloved home, what have they done to you?
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[Barnabas grabs a construction worker]Barnabas Collins: I am terribly sorry, but you cannot imagine how thirsty I am... [bites him]
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[going down a tunnel in the fireplace]Barnabas Collins: My father had quite a flair for secret passages; as a boy, I took it upon myself to discover each one. But this one is my favourite. Family is the only real wealth, he would often remark. Though, clearly, he was not opposed to other kinds... [reveals a vault]
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Victoria Winters: I don't know why, but in some ways I feel I can tell you anything. It's like I've known you forever.
Barnabas Collins: Yes.
Victoria Winters: It's as if I am hypnotized...
Barnabas Collins: Yes... Wait, no! I have used no such trickery upon you, I assure you!
Victoria Winters: I don't know what it is, I just know that there's always been something pulling me here, pulling me to Collinsport and you...
Barnabas Collins: Yes.
Victoria Winters: It's as if I am hypnotized...
Barnabas Collins: Yes... Wait, no! I have used no such trickery upon you, I assure you!
Victoria Winters: I don't know what it is, I just know that there's always been something pulling me here, pulling me to Collinsport and you...
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Barnabas Collins: [he tries to kiss Victoria and she recoils]Oh dear, hath my scent offended thee?
Victoria Winters: No, no! It's just... people I love haven't always loved me back.
Victoria Winters: No, no! It's just... people I love haven't always loved me back.
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Barnabas Collins: I know the body of this house as I do my own. Every brick, every passage... [opens a vault to find it filled with macrame]
Elizabeth Collins Stoddard: That's where I keep my macrame.
Barnabas Collins: A disgraceful misuse, madam!
Elizabeth Collins Stoddard: That's where I keep my macrame.
Barnabas Collins: A disgraceful misuse, madam!
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[Barnabas hoists up Roger]Roger Collins: What are you d...?
Barnabas Collins: I am about to do something so repellent, it sickens me to my very core!... I am going to give you a choice: you can either devote every waking moment to being an exemplary father to young David.
Roger Collins: Or...?
Barnabas Collins: Or you can leave, with sufficient funds to provide for the rest of your life.
Barnabas Collins: I am about to do something so repellent, it sickens me to my very core!... I am going to give you a choice: you can either devote every waking moment to being an exemplary father to young David.
Roger Collins: Or...?
Barnabas Collins: Or you can leave, with sufficient funds to provide for the rest of your life.
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Willie Loomis: Captain Clarney, I'd like you to meet Barnabas Collins.
Clarney: Collins? And uh, why does a Collins want to talk to me?
Barnabas Collins: To offer you a contract.
Clarney: I have a contract. With Angel Bay.
Barnabas Collins: And if I told you I could offer you a better one?
Clarney: Then, Mr. Collins, I would tell you to take a long walk off a short pier.
Clarney: Collins? And uh, why does a Collins want to talk to me?
Barnabas Collins: To offer you a contract.
Clarney: I have a contract. With Angel Bay.
Barnabas Collins: And if I told you I could offer you a better one?
Clarney: Then, Mr. Collins, I would tell you to take a long walk off a short pier.
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[Someone enters the mausoleum where Barnabas is imprisoned]Barnabas Collins: Who's there? Oh, please, I swear on Heaven you will come to no harm! Please! Please! How many decades has it been?
David Collins: It's been twenty minutes.
Barnabas Collins: Oh, Master David! However did you find me?
David Collins: My mommy told me. You must think I'm crazy...
Barnabas Collins: Master David, I think nothing of the sort!
David Collins: It's been twenty minutes.
Barnabas Collins: Oh, Master David! However did you find me?
David Collins: My mommy told me. You must think I'm crazy...
Barnabas Collins: Master David, I think nothing of the sort!
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[from trailer]Barnabas Collins: My name is Barnabas Collins. Two centuries ago, I made Collinwood my home... until a jealous witch cursed me, condemning me to the shadows, for all time.
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Barnabas Collins: Do you have any idea what you put me through?
Angelique Bouchard: Get over it, Barnabas!
Barnabas Collins: Locked in a box, for over two hundred years!
Angelique Bouchard: Don't exaggerate, it was only a hundred and ninety-six.
Angelique Bouchard: Get over it, Barnabas!
Barnabas Collins: Locked in a box, for over two hundred years!
Angelique Bouchard: Don't exaggerate, it was only a hundred and ninety-six.
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Angelique Bouchard: I'm willing to start over, Barnabas! I'm willing to call a truce if you'll just... take me!
Barnabas Collins: I am not what I once was.
Angelique Bouchard: I can change that.
Barnabas Collins: And if I refuse?
Angelique Bouchard: I'll take everything you love, starting with that little creature you've been eying so fondly! The one who looks like JOSETTE! [throws herself on a couch and opens her legs]
Barnabas Collins: Well then, I suppose, strictly in the name of her honour, I must now defile myself for a few seconds...
Barnabas Collins: I am not what I once was.
Angelique Bouchard: I can change that.
Barnabas Collins: And if I refuse?
Angelique Bouchard: I'll take everything you love, starting with that little creature you've been eying so fondly! The one who looks like JOSETTE! [throws herself on a couch and opens her legs]
Barnabas Collins: Well then, I suppose, strictly in the name of her honour, I must now defile myself for a few seconds...
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Elizabeth Collins Stoddard: Angelique! Get out of my house! [fires at Angelique with a shotgun]
Angelique Bouchard: Your house?
Angelique Bouchard: Your house?
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Dr. Julia Hoffman: Barnabas, may I hypnotize you?
Barnabas Collins: Madam, I do not believe that remotely possi... [falls asleep]
Barnabas Collins: Madam, I do not believe that remotely possi... [falls asleep]
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Barnabas Collins: Yes, I killed Dr Hoffman, and those workmen, as well as some very nice unshaven people. For every life I take, a part of my soul dies! But I kill, only because I am COMPELLED to.
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Angelique Bouchard: Say you love me! Say it!
Barnabas Collins: I am sorry, Angelique. But to do so would be a lie.
Barnabas Collins: I am sorry, Angelique. But to do so would be a lie.
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Barnabas Collins: What is it that you want, Angelique?
Angelique Bouchard: Your love! Yo DO still love me, don't you, somewhere deep inside that cold but beating heart?
Barnabas Collins: My dear, even Aphrodite herself could not construct a more odious union!
Angelique Bouchard: Your love! Yo DO still love me, don't you, somewhere deep inside that cold but beating heart?
Barnabas Collins: My dear, even Aphrodite herself could not construct a more odious union!
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Angelique Bouchard: [looks around Collinwood]Whoa, you've really let this place go to hell... right where it belongs.
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Josette du Pres: Promise me we'll be together.
Barnabas Collins: As Heaven is my witness, Josette, we shall spend eternity together.
Barnabas Collins: As Heaven is my witness, Josette, we shall spend eternity together.
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Barnabas Collins: The Collins have always held the biggest and most expensive balls.
Roger Collins: That's what I've been saying, this family needs more balls!
Roger Collins: That's what I've been saying, this family needs more balls!
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Barnabas Collins: Victoria... my sweet Victoria... [Victoria opens her eyes and is turned into a vampire, reborn as Josette]
Victoria Winters: No... Josette.
Victoria Winters: No... Josette.
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David Collins: Carolyn, look... [points at Barnabas's portrait]
Barnabas Collins: Ah, yes! Uncanny, is it not? Worth every hour I spent posing.
Barnabas Collins: Ah, yes! Uncanny, is it not? Worth every hour I spent posing.
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