Frankenstein Quotes

The Creature: If you deny me my wedding night... I shall be with you on yours!

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The Creature: What kind of people is it in which I am comprised? Good people? Bad people?

Victor Frankenstein: Materials. Nothing more.

The Creature: You're wrong.
[Picks up recorder]

The Creature: Did you know I knew how to play this? From which part of me did this knowledge reside? From this mind? From these hands? From this heart? And reading and speaking. Not so much things learned as things remembered.

Victor Frankenstein: Slight trace waves in the brain perhaps.

The Creature: Did you ever consider the consequences of your actions? You made me, and you left me to die. Who am I?

Victor Frankenstein: You? I don't know.

The Creature: And you think that I am evil.

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The Monster: I want friend like me.

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The Monster: You, make man... like me?

Dr. Pretorius: No. Woman... friend for you

The Monster: Woman... Friend... Wife...

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Victor Moritz: You're crazy!

Henry Frankenstein: Crazy, am I? We'll see whether I'm crazy or not.

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Wilbur Grey: [Chick calls Wilbur from across the room] Miss Raymond, will you excuse me.
[looking at himself in the mirror]

Wilbur Grey: Oh you irresistible boy.

Wilbur Grey: [to Chick] You want me.

Chick Young: [grabs Wilbur and pulls him towards the window] Yes I want you. Come over here. I just wanted to get a good look at you in the light.

Chick Young: I still don't get it.

Wilbur Grey: Jealous?

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Wilbur Grey: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Wilbur Grey: Who screamed?

Chick Young: You did.

Chick Young: [amused] I did?

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"Frau Blücher: I came to tell you that your fiance should be arriving any second!

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [shirtless] Elizabeth! Here, tonight?
Frau Blücher: I suggest you put on a tie!

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[as she holds a candle holder with 3 unlit candles]
Frau Blücher: Stay close to the candles. The stairway can be... treacherous.

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Baron Frankenstein: [lastlines]
[Raises a glass of wine to offer a toast]

Baron Frankenstein: Well, as I said before, here I say again, Here's... Here's to a son... to the House of Frankenstein.

Maid: Indeed, Sir. You too, Sir.

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Baron Frankenstein: The medical profession would love to claim my achievement as part of their own and call it a giant stride forward of medicine. But they can't. It is a giant stride forward for me!

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Baron Wolf von Frankenstein: I should turn you over to Inspector Krogh!

Ygor: No! Krogh no want dead man, Ygor is dead!

Baron Wolf von Frankenstein: What are you talking about?

Ygor: They hanged me once, Frankenstein... they broke my neck.

Baron Wolf von Frankenstein: Hanged you... well, why did they hang you?

Ygor: Because I stole bodies... they said...

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BuzzConroy: This calls for Super Suction Drawing Power.

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Chick Young: You know the old saying? Everything comes in threes. Now suppose a third girl should fall in love with you?

Wilbur Grey: What's her name?

Chick Young: We'll say her name is Mary.

Wilbur Grey: Is she pretty?

Chick Young: Beautiful!

Wilbur Grey: Naturally, she'd have to be.

Chick Young: Now you have Mary, you have Joan, and you have Sandra. So, to prove to you that I'm your pal, your bosom friend, I'll take one of the girls off your hands.

Wilbur Grey: Chick, you're what I call a real pal... you take Mary.

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Detective Carson O'Conner: Go on, move into the light.

Deucalion: You're detective O'Connor?

Detective Carson O'Conner: How'd you get in here?

Deucalion: I go where I want. In two hundred years, I learned a lot about locks. The man who lived here was in despair. I recognize his pain.

Detective Carson O'Conner: So you're telling me you knew Bobby Alwine?

Deucalion: He's like me. Not made of god.

Detective Carson O'Conner: Yeah right.

Deucalion: He wanted to kill himself, but couldn't take his own life. We're not designed to.

Detective Carson O'Conner: Are you telling me you helped him?

Deucalion: I can help you. I recognize his killer's pain as well.

Detective Carson O'Conner: Spread your arms on your knees.

Deucalion: I bow to no one.

Detective Carson O'Conner: I wasn't asking.

Deucalion: Will you shoot me in the heart? You'll need two bullets.

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Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [dreaming] I am not a Frankenstein. I'm a Fronkensteen. Don't give me that. I don't believe in fate. And I won't say it.
[pauses]

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: All right, you win. You win. I give. I'll say it. I'll say it. I'll say it. DESTINY! DESTINY! NO ESCAPING THAT FOR ME! DESTINY! DESTINY! NO ESCAPING THAT FOR ME!

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Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [to Igor] Now that brain that you gave me. Was it Hans Delbruck's?

Igor: [pause, then] No.

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Ah! Very good. Would you mind telling me whose brain I DID put in?

Igor: Then you won't be angry?

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: I will NOT be angry.

Igor: Abby Someone.

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [pause, then] Abby Someone. Abby who?

Igor: Abby Normal.

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [pause, then] Abby Normal?

Igor: I'm almost sure that was the name.

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [chuckles, then] Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain into a seven and a half foot long, fifty-four inch wide GORILLA?
[grabs Igor and starts throttling him]

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Is that what you're telling me?

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Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Are you ready?

Igor: Are you sure this is how they did it?

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Yes! It's all written down in the notes! Now tie off the kites and hurry down as fast as you can!

Igor: What's the hurry?

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: There's a possibility of electrecution! Do you understand?
[no answer, shouts]

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: I said, there is a possibility of electrecution! Do you understand?

Igor: [suddenly appears next to Fredrick] I understand. I understand. Why are you shouting?

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Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Are you ready?

Igor: Are you sure this is how they did it?

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Yes! It's all written down in the notes! Now tie off the kites and hurry down as fast as you can!

Igor: What's the hurry?

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: There's a possibility of electrocution! Do you understand?
[no answer, shouts]

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: I said, there is a possibility of electrocution! Do you understand?

Igor: [suddenly appears next to Fredrick] I understand. I understand. Why are you shouting?

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Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Damn your eyes.

Igor: [to camera] Too late.

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Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: For the experiment to be a success, all of the body parts must be enlarged.

Inga: His veins, his feet, his hands, his organs vould all have to be increased in size.

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Exactly.

Inga: He vould have an enormous schwanzstucker.

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: That goes without saying.

Inga: Voof.

Igor: He's going to be very popular.

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Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius.

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Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: I am a scientist, not a philosopher! You have more chance of reanimating this scalpel than you have of mending a broken nervous system!

Medical Student: But what about your grandfather's work, sir?

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: My grandfather's work was doodoo! I am not interested in death! The only thing that concerns me is the preservation of life!
[jams the scalpel into his leg, lets go of the scalpel and it sticks upright out of his leg, grasps it again, then slowly crosses his legs to block the scalpel from view]

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Class... is... dismissed.

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Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Love is the only thing that can save this poor creature, and I am going to convince him that he is loved even at the cost of my own life. No matter what you hear in there, no matter how cruelly I beg you, no matter how terribly I may scream, do not open this door or you will undo everything I have worked for. Do you understand? Do not open this door.

Inga: Yes, Doctor.

Igor: Nice working with ya.
[Dr. Frederick Frankenstein goes into the room with The Monster. The Monster wakes up]

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Let me out. Let me out of here. Get me the hell out of here. What's the matter with you people? I was joking! Don't you know a joke when you hear one? HA-HA-HA-HA. Jesus Christ, get me out of here! Open this goddamn door or I'll kick your rotten heads in! Mommy!

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Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Well, dear, are you ready?

Inga: Yes, Doctor.

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Elevate me.

Inga: Now? Right here?

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Yes, yes, raise the platform.

Inga: Oh. Ze platform. Oh, zat, yah, yah... yes.

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Dr. Pretorius: To a new world of gods and monsters!

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Dr. Pretorius: We shall drink to our partnership. Do you like gin? It is my only weakness.

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Henry Frankenstein: The brain you stole, Fritz. Think of it. The brain of a dead man waiting to live again in a body I made with my own hands!

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Igor: Dr. Frankenstein...

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: "Fronkensteen."

Igor: You're putting me on.

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: No, it's pronounced "Fronkensteen."

Igor: Do you also say "Froaderick"?

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: No... "Frederick."

Igor: Well, why isn't it "Froaderick Fronkensteen"?

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: It isn't; it's "Frederick Fronkensteen."

Igor: I see.

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: You must be Igor.
[He pronounces it ee-gor]

Igor: No, it's pronounced "eye-gor."

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: But they told me it was "ee-gor."

Igor: Well, they were wrong then, weren't they?

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Igor: It's gonna be a long night. If you need any help with the girls, I'll be...

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