Renfield No, no, Master! I wasn't going to say anything! I told them nothing! I'm loyal to you, Master!
Played by Dwight Frye 
Dracula (1931) · 40 quotes
Dracula (1931) · 40 quotes
Most-quoted character in Dracula (1931): in 20 of its 40 quotes
Most scenes with: Prof. Abraham Van Helsing (5), Count Dracula (3), Martin (2)
I'm loyal to you Master, I 'm your slave, I didn't betray you! Oh no, don't! Don't kill me! Let me live, please! Punish me, torture me, but let me live! I can't die with all those lives on my conscience! All that blood on my hands!
More lines from Renfield
9 quotes Renfield Renfield [Overhearing Van Helsing discussing vampires]
Isn't this a strange conversation, for men who aren't crazy?
Renfield You know too much to live, Van Helsing!
Renfield Master, we're here. You can't hear what I'm saying but we're here. We're safe.
Renfield I'm warning you doctor Seward! If you don't send me away you must answer for what will happen to miss Mina.
Renfield Keep your filthy hands to yourself!
Renfield Master, the sun is gone!
Renfield You will keep your promise when we get to London, won't you, Master? You will see that I get lives? Not human lives, but small ones. With blood in them. I'll be loyal to you, Master. I'll be loyal.
Renfield I didn't lead them here, Master! I didn't know, I swear!
Scenes with Renfield
10 scenes
I am Dracula.
Renfield Oh. It's really good to see you. I don't know what happened to the driver and my luggage,and... well, and with all this, I thought I was in the wrong place.
I bid you welcome.
[Dracula goes up the stairs. Renfield starts to follow him. Suddenly, Dracula hears wolves howling.]
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
[Dracula goes up the steps, and waits for Renfield, who without difficulty, cuts open a huge spider's web using his walking stick.]
The spider spinning his web for the unwary fly. The blood is the life, Mr. Renfield.
Renfield Why, er... yes.
Renfield He came and stood below my window in the moonlight. And he promised me things, not in words, but by doing them.
Doing them?
Renfield By making them happen. A red mist spread over the lawn, coming on like a flame of fire! And then he parted it, and I could see that there were thousands of rats, with their eyes blazing red, like his, only smaller. Then he held up his hand, and they all stopped, and I thought he seemed to be saying: "Rats! Rats! Rats! Thousands! Millions of them! All red-blood! All these will I give you! If you will obey me!"
What did he want you to do?
Renfield That which has already been done! [giggles sinisterly]
You'll die in torment if you die with innocent blood on your soul.
Renfield God will not damn a poor lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those with weak minds.
This is very old wine. I hope you will like it.
Renfield Aren't you drinking?
I never drink...wine.
Ain't you ashamed now? Ain't you? Spiders now, is it? Flies ain't good enough!
Renfield Flies? Flies?! Poor puny things! Who wants to eat flies?!
You do, ya loony!
Renfield Not when I can get nice fat spiders!
All right, have it your own way.
Renfield Oh, Dr. Seward! Send me away from this place! Send me far away!
Why are you so anxious to get away?
Renfield My cries at night, they might disturb miss Mina.
Yes?
Renfield They might give her bad dreams, professor Van Helsing. Bad dreams.
[A wolf starts howling. Meanwhile, at Carfax Abbey, Count Dracula leaves his coffin.] [Back at Dr. Seward's office]
That sounded like a wolf.
Yes, it did. But I hardly think there are wolves so near London.
He thinks they're wolves. Me, I've heard them howl at night before. He thinks they're talking to him! He howls and howls back at them. He's crazy!
I might have known. I might have known.
What have you to do with Dracula?
Renfield Dracula? I've never even heard the name before.
Renfield I hope I've brought enough labels for your luggage.
I'm taking with me only three, uh... boxes...
Renfield Oh, very well...
Renfield Isn't this a strange conversation, for men who aren't crazy?
Renfield! You're compelling me to put you in a straitjacket!
You forget, doctor, that madmen have great strength. Dracula has great strength. Eh, Renfield?
Renfield Words, words, words!
Renfield Well, I'm sorry, but there's a carriage meeting me at Borgo Pass at midnight.
Innkeeper Borgo Pass?
Renfield Yes.
Innkeeper Whose carriage?
Renfield Count Dracula's.
Innkeeper Count Dracula's?
Renfield Yes.
Innkeeper [The inkeeper's wife superstitiously crosses herself.] [fearfully]
Castle Dracula?
Renfield Yes, that's where I'm going.
Innkeeper To the castle?
Renfield Yes.
Innkeeper [tremulously]
Nooo. You mustn't go there. We people of the mountains believe at the Castle there are vampires. Dracula and his wives - they take the form of wolves and bats. They leave their coffins at night and they feed on the blood of the living.
Renfield But that's all superstition. Why I, I can't understand why...
Innkeeper Come, we must go indoors.
Renfield It's a matter of business with me. I've got to go. Really. Well, goodnight.
[As he climbs back into the coach, the innkeeper's peasant wife rushes over and places a crucifix around his neck] Innkeeper's wife: Wait. Please. If you must go, wear this for your mother's sake. It will protect you.
