Larry Talbot Quotes in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

Larry Talbot: Have you seen Chick Young or Wilbur Grey?

Waiter: Seen 'em? I don't even know them.

Larry Talbot: Soon the moon will rise. I've taken the room across the hall; here's the key, lock me in.

Wilbur Grey: Lock you in?

Larry Talbot: Yes, please. Hurry.

[to Chick]

Wilbur Grey: He's scared too.

Chick Young: Why don't you get down to the police station and tell them you know the story of Dracula and Monster they'd be very interested.

Larry Talbot: I can't do that because then I'd have to tell them who I am and how I know what I know.

Wilbur Grey: I've got a date. In fact I've got two dates.

Larry Talbot: But you and I 'have a date with destiny'.

Wilbur Grey: Let Chick go with Destiny.

Larry Talbot: I just got a line on Dracula and the Monster. A certain Dr. Lajos has been receiving a lot of electrical equipment - just the type necessary to revive the Monster.

Wilbur Grey: So what? I'm way out on an island. I got my own problems.

Larry Talbot: Yes, but listen... I believe you're in the house of Dracula right now!

Larry Talbot: So! We meet again, Count Dracula.

Dracula: Dracula?

Wilbur Grey: Yes. That's who he says you are.

Dracula: Oh. My costume perhaps?

Chick Young: [jokingly] No. Talbot here thinks you're the real thing.

Wilbur Grey: Uh-huh. Right out of McDougal's House of Horrors.

Dracula: What an odd hallucination. But, the human mind is often inflamed with strange complexes. I suggest you consult your physician, Mr. Talbot.

Chick Young: [referring to Wilbur] And take him along with you, please.

Dr. Lejos/Dracula: Miss Raymond, would you honor me with a dance?

Larry Talbot: No, I warn you, he is Count Dracula.

Joan Raymond: How interesting. Tell me more.

Dr. Lejos/Dracula: Let "me" tell you, while we dance. Pardon me, Mr. Talbot.

Larry Talbot: [gives Wilbur a key] Lock me in, and no matter what you hear or what you might think, don't let me out!

Chick Young: What's the matter?

Larry Talbot: I know you'll think I'm crazy, but... in a half-an-hour the moon will rise and I'll turn into a wolf.

Wilbur Grey: You and 20 million other guys!

Wilbur Grey: Mr. Talbot, and I thought you were such a nice man too. Look at you, you're a mess.

Larry Talbot: Last night I went through another one of my horrible experiences. Many years ago I was bitten by a werewolf. Now, whenever the full moon rises I turn into a wolf myself.

Wilbur Grey: Oh pal. That's all right; I'm sort of a wolf myself.

Larry Talbot: I know you'll think I'm crazy, but in a half an hour the moon will rise and I'll turn into a wolf.

Wilbur: You and twenty million other guys.

Larry Talbot: [slamming Wilbur into a locker with Chick going in behind him] Listen! I might tear you limb from limb!

Wilbur: [turning to Chick in the locker] Is that serious?

Chick Young: He'll murder ya!

Wilbur: [turns to Talbot] That's serious.

Jenny Williams: Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright.

Larry Talbot: [after hearing it twice already] You know that one too ah?

Larry Talbot: It isn't a wolf... it's a werewolf!

Larry Talbot: You wouldn't wanna run away with a murderer wouldja?

Gwen Conliffe: Oh Larry, you're not. You know you're not.

Larry Talbot: I killed Bela. I killed Richardson. If I stay here any longer, you can't tell who'll be next.

Maleva: You killed the wolf.

Larry Talbot: Well, there's no crime in that is there?

Maleva: The wolf was Bela.

Larry Talbot: You think I don't know the difference between a wolf and a man?

Maleva: Bela turned into a wolf and you killed him. A werewolf can only be killed by a silver bullet, or a silver knife...

[looks down at Larry's walking stick]

Maleva: ...or a stick with a silver handle.

Larry Talbot: You're insane! I tell you, I killed a wolf! A PLAIN, ORDINARY WOLF!

Col. Paul Montford, chief constable: [showing Larry's stick to him] Is this your walking stick?

Larry Talbot: Why, yes. That's the stick I killed the wolf with.

[Sir John Talbot and Col. Montford look at Larry with great concern]

Sir John Talbot: Larry, Bela the gypsy was killed last night. Your walking stick was found next to the body.

Larry Talbot: You mean, Bela the fortune teller? But... I only saw a wolf.

Maleva: Whoever is bitten by a werewolf and lives becomes a werewolf himself.

Larry Talbot: Ah, don't hand me that. You're just wasting your time.

Maleva: The wolf bit you, didn't he?

Larry Talbot: Yeah. Yeah he did!

Sir John Talbot: You can't run away.

Larry Talbot: That's it! That's what she said.

Sir John Talbot: Who?

Larry Talbot: The gypsy woman.

Sir John Talbot: Gypsy woman? Now we're getting down to it. She's been filling your mind with this gibberish. This talk of werewolves and pentagrams. You're not a child Larry, you're a grown man and you believe in the superstitions of a Gypsy woman!

Gwen Conliffe: [Gwen and Larry are taking a moonlight walk] So you're a fortune teller?

Larry Talbot: Uh-huh.

Gwen Conliffe: Is that how you knew about the earrings?

Larry Talbot: Well, no exactly. You see, a telescope has a mighty sharp eye. It brings the stars so close that you feel you can almost touch them.

Gwen Conliffe: [shocked] A telescope?

Larry Talbot: Sure. And it does the same thing to people in their rooms - that is if you point it in the right direction.

Gwen Conliffe: Oh you wouldn't.

Larry Talbot: Well, now, I was only testing the refractor. I didn't know about you and all of sudden there you were.

Gwen Conliffe: From now on I'll be sure to draw the curtains.

Larry Talbot: Oh, don't do that, I mean, not on account of me.

[stumbling]

Larry Talbot: I mean, well, you know what I mean.

Gwen Conliffe: [grinning] Yes, I'm afraid I do.

Larry Talbot: Don't try to make me believe that I killed a man when I know that I killed a wolf!

Doctor Lloyd: [patronizing Larry] Yes, yes. We're all a little bit confused.

Larry Talbot: Oh its all Greek to me!

Sir John Talbot: Well, it is Greek.

Sir John Talbot: Yes, that's the sign of the werewolf.

Larry Talbot: That's just a legend though, isn't it?

Sir John Talbot: Yes, but like most legends, it must have some basis in fact. It's probably an ancient explanation of the dual personality in each of us. How does it go? "Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and Autumn moon is bright."