Tom Waits credited as playing...
R.M. Renfield
- [Renfield holds a plate of bugs]
- Renfield: Would you care for a hors d'oeuvre, Dr. Seward or a canapé?
- Doctor Jack Seward: No, thank you, Mr. Renfield. How are you feeling tonight?
- Renfield: Far better than you, my lovesick doctor.
- Doctor Jack Seward: Is my personal life of interest to you?
- Renfield: Of course it is. All life interests me.
- Doctor Jack Seward: Your diet, Mr. Renfield, is disgusting.
- Renfield: Actually, they're perfectly nutritious. You see, each life that I ingest gives back life to me.
- Doctor Jack Seward: The fly gives you life?
- Renfield: Certainly. But you might as well ask a man to eat molecules with a pair of chopsticks than to interest me in lesser carnivore.
- Doctor Jack Seward: I shall have to invent a new classification of a lunatic for you. What about spiders? Spiders eat the flies.
- Renfield: Yes, spiders eat them.
- Doctor Jack Seward: What about sparrows?
- Renfield: Oh, yes. Did you say sparrows?
- Doctor Jack Seward: Something larger perhaps?
- Renfield: Oh, yes. A kitten. I beg you. A little, sleek - a playful kitten. Something I can teach. Something I can feed. No one would refuse me a kitten.
- Doctor Jack Seward: Wouldn't you prefer a cat?
- Renfield: Oh, yes, a big cat! My salvation depends upon it!
- Doctor Jack Seward: Your salvation?
- Renfield: Yes! I need lives. I need lives for the master!
- Doctor Jack Seward: What? What master?
- Renfield: The master will come, and he has promised to make me immortal!
- Doctor Jack Seward: How?
- [Renfield suddenly attacks Seward and the guards rush in to subdue him]
- Renfield: The blood is the life! The blood is the life!
- Renfield: My master tells me about you.
- Mina Harker: What does he tell you?
- Renfield: That he is coming.
- Renfield: Master, I am here! The master of all life is at hand! Gather round! I am here to do your bidding, master! I have worshiped you long and far off! And now you are near, master! I am your slave! I await your command!