Lon Chaney Jr.: The Wolf Man - Lawrence Talbot
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Quotes
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Festival Singer : [singing] The wine tonight is nobly blessed. Faro-la, faro-li. By such a lady and her guest. Faro-la, faro-li. To them I toast, come drink with me. That may they ever happy be. And may they live *eternally*!
Lawrence Talbot : Stop that! Stop it! Quit that singing! Eternally! I don't want to live eternally! Why did you say that to me? Get away from me! Stay away! Go away, all of you! Let me alone! Stay away!
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Lawrence Talbot : Your own son Bela was a werewolf. He attacked me. He changed me into a werewolf. He's the one that put this curse on me. You watched over him until he was permitted to die. Well, now I want to die to. Won't you show me the way?
Maleva : I can't. But I will guard you and take care of you as I took care of my own son.
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Dr. Frank Mannering : Mr Talbot, if you want us to help you, you must do as we say. Now, please lie down.
Lawrence Talbot : You think I'm insane. You think I don't know what I'm talking about. Well you just look in that grave where Lawrence Talbot is supposed to be buried and see if you find a body in it!
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Vazec : [referring to the late Dr. Frankenstein] There, that's his burial place. A fire destroyed him and all his misdeeds.
Maleva : He is dead?
Lawrence Talbot : Oh but he can't be!
Vazec : He didn't die any too soon for us; we all wished he'd never been born!
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Baroness Elsa Frankenstein : I understand that you want to buy our land.
Lawrence Talbot : No, I - I wanted to meet you.
Baroness Elsa Frankenstein : I don't understand.
Lawrence Talbot : Well, I didn't know how to find you, and the mayor wouldn't give me your address, so I felt that if I offered to buy your land, that you'd be sure to come.
Baroness Elsa Frankenstein : It's certainly a most usual way to make an acquaintance.
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Vazec, the Proprietor : What did you want with him?
Maleva : I heard he was a great doctor who could help people that other doctors couldn't cure.
Vazec, the Proprietor : Him? Murder and all sorts of crimes was all he ever brought us. He harbored a monster in his house, a thing created by black magic.
Lawrence Talbot : Dr. Frankenstein, dead.
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Maleva : Are you the proprietor?
Vazec : I am. What do you beggars want?
Lawrence Talbot : We're looking for Dr. Frankenstein. Oh, please, won't you tell us where he lives?
Vazec : [points out a window, to a castle] There! That's his burial place.
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Lawrence Talbot : Why have you followed me?
Dr. Frank Mannering : Talbot, you're a murderer.
Lawrence Talbot : Prove it.
Dr. Frank Mannering : You're insane at times and you know it. You're sane enough now though to know what you're doing. Why don't you let me take care of you?
Lawrence Talbot : You think it would do any good to put me in a lunatic asylum?
Dr. Frank Mannering : You know that's where you belong. It's the only thing to do.
Lawrence Talbot : Oh that wouldn't do any good. I'd only escape again sooner or later.
Dr. Frank Mannering : We might be able to cure you. It might prevent you...
Lawrence Talbot : I only want to die. That's why I'm here. If I ever find peace I'll find it here.
