- [Vincent Brand tells The Creature that the theater is where the malformed find grace]
- Vincent Brand: There is a place where the malformed find grace, where the hideous can be beautiful, where strangeness is not shunned, but celebrated. This place is the theatre.
- [the Creature tells Victor Frankenstein the story of his birth]
- The Creature: [the Creature awakens on a bloody table, narrating] That it was a difficult birth there can be no doubt. I was born in sheer, terrified agony. But surely this was not the Protean man you'd envisioned. This was not a golden triumph over mortality, the lyrical Adonais, of which Shelley wrote. This was abomination.
- The Creature: [the blood-covered Creature reaches for Victor as he fleas away, narrating] And so you fled. The first human action that I experienced was rejection. So do not wonder my loathing of your species. I waited. But you did not return. Has there ever been a creature so alone? So utterly helpless? Was every new-born creature abandoned the moment they were born? Was this what life was?
- [the Creature tells Victor Frankenstein how he learned to speak]
- The Creature: [the Creature watches villagers outside the window, narrating] That upstairs window became my salvation and my tutor. I learned how people were. What the people of the village valued and what despised. How animals were treated. There was no doubt in my mind that I was an animal. How could there be a doubt? Was it not a countenance made for prediction?
- The Creature: [the Creature sits with a pile of books, narrating] Eventually I learned words. Your beloved volumes of poetry were my primers. From your penciled notations I learned that you favored Wordsworth and the old Romantics. No wonder you fled from me. I am not a creation of the antique pastoral world. I am modernity personified. Did you not know that's what you were creating? The modern age.
- [the Creature questions Victor Frankenstein on his actions of creating life]
- The Creature: Did you really imagine that your modern creation would hold to the values of Keats and Wordsworth? We are men of iron and mechanization now. We are steam engines and turbines. Were you really so naive to imagine that we'd see eternity in a daffodil. Who is the child, Frankenstein, thee or me?
- The Creature: [the Creature grabs Victor by the throat as he tries to run away] You ran away from me once. Never again. We are the Janus mask. Inseparable.
- [the Creature tells Victor Frankenstein where he found a family and home]
- The Creature: [the Creature works the stage for his fellow actors, narrating] Could there have been a more appropriate place for me? Night after night, the players died gruesomely and then came back to life again for the next show. They were undying, like me, creatures of perpetual resurrection. I was not welcomed by all. How could this face, this form, fit with ease amongst the mortal and the beautiful? I learned to stay in the shadows to protect such a heart as this you gave me. But still, I was a member of the company in my way and I proved an able and agile worker. You made me strong and tireless. If only you had made me handsome.
- [the Creature leaves a warning with Victor Frankenstein]
- The Creature: You have not known horror until I have shown it to you.
- [first lines]
- Young Victor: [young Victor Frankenstein quotes a William Wordsworth poem when finding his dead dog as a child, narrating] 'There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream / The earth, and every common sight / To me did seem, Apparell'd in celestial light / The glory and freshness of a dream / It is not now as it hath been of yore / Turn wheresoe'er I may / By night or day / The things which I have seen I now can see no more.'
- [young Victor Frankenstein talks with his mother Caroline Frankenstein]
- Young Victor: When the poets write of death, it's invariably serene. I wonder if that's what it is really. This death, this ending of things.
- Caroline Frankenstein: Is it an ending though, Victor? Or merely a movement? A gesture toward something else.
- [young Victor Frankenstein watches his mother as she lays dying in her bed]
- Young Victor: [young Victor asks his father] Will she die today?
- Alphonse: No, no, lad. Of course not.
- Young Victor: Death is not serene.
- [Victor Frankenstein's first undead Creature speaks to him for the first time]
- The Creature: Did you think I wouldn't find you? Did you imagine that I was dead? That I could die? You know better, Frankenstein. I would seek you even unto the maelstrom of the blackest tempest of the darkest night. Stand and face me!
- The Creature: [Victor stands up heavily breathing] Look upon this face anew. Is it not well made? Is the language not rich with felicity of expression? Are the eyes not alert? Are these not the eyes that you looked into... Once?
- The Creature: [the Creature wipes his bloody hand over Victor's face] Hear how I bled.
- [Vincent Brand gives The Creature the stage name of Caliban]
- Vincent Brand: You know, occurs to me, given my total self-absorption, I never asked your name.
- Vincent Brand: [the Creature hesitates to answer] Fear not. You shall have a nom de theater. Do you know 'The Tempest'?
- The Creature: No.
- Vincent Brand: You shall be Caliban.
- The Creature: Caliban. Who's he?
- Vincent Brand: Ah! We'll add it to the bill next week and you'll see. Of course in our version Caliban eats Prospero.
- [Victor Frankenstein apologizes to The Creature]
- Dr. Victor Frankenstein: What do you want of me? To suffer? You've done that. I'm sorry I left you. I'm sorry for the cruelty you've endured. That I inflicted upon you, but... I cannot unmake the past.
- The Creature: I'm not concerned with the past, only the future. Rise and walk with me, Creator.
- The Creature: [the Creature wipes the blood off his face] I'll show you what I want.
- [Victor Frankenstein gives The Creature a name out of spite]
- The Creature: [about Proteus] You gave him a name?
- Dr. Victor Frankenstein: He picked it himself. He was called Proteus.
- Dr. Victor Frankenstein: [Victor covers his eyes] What do you want from me, demon?
- The Creature: So now I have a name, and yet you will not look at me.
- [Fenton tells Vanessa Ives, Sir Malcolm, Ethan Chandler and Sembene where his master is]
- Sir Malcolm Murray: Where is your master?
- Fenton: Right behind you. Don't you feel him in the dark? On the back of your neck, his breath. Now one finger reaching out. Do you not feel it? Well, you soon will. And then... And then... All light will end and the world will live in darkness. The Hidden Ones will emerge and rule... Amunet. Amun-Ra.
- [Ethan Chandler tells Vanessa Ives he met a woman]
- Ethan Chandler: Brona. It means 'Sadness' in Gaelic.
- Vanessa Ives: Does she live up to the name?
- Ethan Chandler: Can't tell. She has consumption.
- Vanessa Ives: Then she will. Who doesn't love a lost cause?
- [young Victor Frankenstein asks his mother Caroline Frankenstein about Heaven]
- Caroline Frankenstein: There are some things we're not mean to know. Or know too soon, anyway.
- [the Creature tells Victor Frankenstein how he found him]
- The Creature: Once I resolved to find you, I knew where to look. I knew in which occupation I would find you engaged. The cutting of flesh, the work of the surgeon and the butcher. And so I came to your city. London. Cruel as the Harlot's curse.
- [the Creature tells Victor Frankenstein of the moment he learned mankind's hatred]
- The Creature: [as The Creature is beaten to the ground for his malformed look, narrating] And so it was I learned mankind's capacity for hatred, and mercy, in a single night.
- [when Vincet Brand finds The Creature on the ground]
- [Vincent Brand asks The Creature if he needs work]
- Vincent Brand: Do you need work?
- The Creature: Yes.
- Vincent Brand: Your... Visage, creates challenges?
- The Creature: It is a horror.
- Vincent Brand: Not everywhere.
- [Vincent Brand shows The Creature the outside of the Theater]
- Vincent Brand: My friend, there was a time this modest hall resounded with Shakespeare, seasons of it, great vomits of it. My last turn was when I gave my Leontes. 'I have drunk and seen the spider!' Ah, but that was many seasons ago. Times have changed. Nowadays, it's all... Ibsen. Come! Let us make our entrance.
- Vincent Brand: [as The Creature takes a step, Vincent Brand tells him] Oh, no. We do not enter here. We use the stage door.
- [Vanessa Ives asks Ethan Chandler if he questions anything about her]
- Vanessa Ives: I... I see things sometimes. I am affected by forces beyond our world. You don't question that?
- Ethan Chandler: There's a lot I question about all this, but not that.
- [Victor Frankenstein tells The Creature to stop tormenting him]
- Dr. Victor Frankenstein: Don't torment me.
- The Creature: You say this to me?
- [the Creature tells Victor Frankenstein he seeks a companion]
- The Creature: In this life there are hungers that compel us. Food, shelter, warmth, even poetry. But one thing stands titanic. Name it.
- Dr. Victor Frankenstein: Love.
- The Creature: Top marks.
- Dr. Victor Frankenstein: I can never love you.
- The Creature: I do not seek your love, demon. I do not seek what is not there. I would weep for you if I'd ever learned how. No. I seek a companion.
- The Creature: [the two look to all of the Londoners around them] Look around. Take your pick.
- [the Creature threatens Victor Frankenstein with life]
- The Creature: You will make me an immortal mate. A woman. Like myself, everlasting. This you shall do. Or I will strike down all those you love and render your brightest day your darkest night.
- Dr. Victor Frankenstein: You seek to threaten me with death? If you seek to threaten me, threaten me with life.
- The Creature: Do not test me, Frankenstein.
- [the captured vampire Fenton snarls at Vanessa Ives, Sir Malcolm, Ethan Chandler, and Sembene]
- Fenton: Fear already? You will not survive long in this cruel old world.
- [Vanessa Ives and the group make a pact to remain together]
- Vanessa Ives: We here have been brutalized with loss. It had made us brutal in return. There is no going back from this moment.
- Sir Malcolm Murray: If we are to proceed, we proceed as one. Without hesitation and with fealty to each other alone. This, we seek, demands nothing less. It is not for the weak or the kind. No one in this room is kind. That's why you're here. Now look into each other's eyes. And pledge to go as far as your soul will allow. Swear it now.
- [Vanessa nods her head]
- Sir Malcolm Murray: [Sembene nods his head]
- [Victor nods his head]
- Sir Malcolm Murray: Give your assent, Mr. Chandler, or leave this company and its mysteries behind.
- Ethan Chandler: [Chandler looks to Vanessa, whispering] I'm with you.
- Vanessa Ives: And I with you, Ethan.
- [Chandler nods his head]
- [Victor Frankenstein leaves Sir Malcolm with one last thing to consider]
- Dr. Victor Frankenstein: There is one thing you need to consider. When you transform a life, you're making it anew. Whatever happens to that creature downstairs we are responsible for it. It is our burden now. Every action builds another link that binds us to it. That chain is everlasting.
- [Sir Malcolm tells Victor Frankenstein to get some sleep]
- Sir Malcolm Murray: Work tomorrow, Doctor. Get some sleep.
- Dr. Victor Frankenstein: Who can survive the dreams?
- Dr. Victor Frankenstein: You seek to threaten me with death? If you seek to threaten me, threaten me with life.