Frankenstein (1931) quotes

View Quote Baron: Well, what's the matter with you? You look as if you've been kicked by a horse. Where's Henry?
Waldman: I would advise you to take Henry away from here at once.
Baron: What do you suppose I'm here for, pleasure?

View Quote Dr. Waldman: Herr Frankenstein is a most brilliant young man, yet so erratic he troubles me.

View Quote Edward van Sloan: How do you do? Mr. Carl Laemmle [the producer] feels it would be a little unkind to present this picture without just a word of friendly warning. We are about to unfold the story of Frankenstein, a man of science who sought to create a man after his own image without reckoning upon God. It is one of the strangest tales ever told. It deals with the two great mysteries of creation — life and death. I think it will thrill you. It may shock you. It might even — horrify you. So if any of you feel that you do not care to subject your nerves to such a strain, now's your chance to — uh, well, we warned you.

View Quote Elizabeth: Henry. I'm afraid. Terribly afraid. Where's Dr. Waldman? Why is he late for the wedding?
Henry: Oh, he's always late. He'll be here soon.
Elizabeth: Something is going to happen. I feel it. I can't get it out of my mind.
Henry: You're just nervous. All the excitement and preparation.
Elizabeth: No, no. It isn't that. I felt it all day. Something is coming between us. I know it! I know it!
Henry: Sit down and rest. You look so tired.
Elizabeth: If I could just do something to save us from it.
Henry: From what, dear, from what?
Elizabeth: I don't know. If I could just get it out of my mind. Oh, I'd die if I had to lose you now, Henry.
Henry: Lose me? Why, I'll always be with you.
Elizabeth: Will you, Henry? Are you sure? I love you so.

View Quote Elizabeth: The very day we announced our engagement, he told me of his experiments. He said he was on the verge of a discovery so terrific that he doubted his own sanity. There was a strange look in his eyes, some mystery. His words carried me right away. Of course I've never doubted him but still I worry. I can't help it.

View Quote Henry: Elizabeth, please, won't you go away? Won't you trust me, just for tonight?
Elizabeth: You're ill. What's the matter?
Henry: Nothing. I'm quite all right, truly I am. Oh, can't you see? I mustn't be disturbed. You'll ruin everything. My experiment is almost completed.
Elizabeth: Wait a moment. I understand. I believe in you. But I cannot leave you tonight.
Henry: You've got to leave!
Victor: Henry, you're inhuman. You're crazy.
Henry: Crazy, am I? We'll see whether I'm crazy or not. Come on up...

View Quote Henry: It's like heaven, being with you again.
Elizabeth: Heaven wasn't so far away all the time, you know.
Henry: I know, but I didn't realize it. My work. Those horrible days and nights. I couldn't think of anything else.
Elizabeth: Henry. You're not to think of those things anymore. You promised.

View Quote Henry: Look! It's moving. It's sha — it's... it's alive. It's alive... It's alive, it's moving, it's alive! It's alive, it's alive, it's alive! It's ALIVE!
Victor: Henry — in the name of God!
Henry: Oh in the name of God! Now I know what it feels like to be God!
Note: the bolded line is ranked #49 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

View Quote Henry: You're quite sure you want to come in? ...Very well. [locks door and pockets key] Forgive me, but I'm forced to take unusual precautions...A moment ago you said I was crazy. Tomorrow we'll see about that. [to Dr. Waldman] Don't touch that! Dr. Waldman. I learned a great deal from you at the University about the violet ray, the ultra-violet ray, which you said was the highest color in the spectrum. You were wrong. Here in this machinery I have gone beyond that. I have discovered the great ray that first brought life into the world.
Waldman: Oh! And your proof?
Henry: Tonight, you shall have your proof. At first, I experimented only with dead animals, and then a human heart which I kept beating for three weeks. But now, I'm going to turn that ray on that body and endow it with life.
Waldman: And you really believe that you can bring life to the dead?
Henry: That body is not dead. It has never lived. I created it. I made it with my own hands from the bodies I took from graves, from the gallows, anywhere! Go and see for yourself.

View Quote Maid: If you please, Herr Baron, the burgomaster.
Baron: Well, tell him to go away.
Maid: But he says it's important.
Baron: Nothing the burgomaster can say can be of the slightest importance.
Vogel: Good day, Herr Baron. Frulein.
Baron: Well, what do you want? if it's trouble, go away. I've trouble enough.
Vogel: Oh, there's no trouble, sir.
Baron: What do you mean, "no trouble"? there's nothing but trouble.
Vogel: I brought you these flowers.
Elizabeth: Thank you, Herr Vogel.

View Quote Maria: [to The Monster] Who are you? I'm Maria. Will you play with me? Would you like one of my flowers?
[The Monster smells the flower and smiles]
Maria: [handing The Monster more flowers] You have those, and I'll have these. I can make a boat.
[The two take turns tossing the flowers in the lake, where they float]
Maria: See how mine float?
[When The Monster has no more flowers, he picks up Maria]
Maria: No, you're hurting me. No!
[The Monster tosses Maria into the lake]

View Quote Victor: [pounding on Henry's door] Henry! Dr. Waldman!...He's been seen in the hills terrorizing the mountainside.
[A low moan is heard]
Henry: He's in the house. He's upstairs!

View Quote Victor: [suggesting he see Dr. Waldman about Henry] Perhaps he can tell me more about all this.
Elizabeth: Oh Victor, you're a dear.
Victor: You know I'd go to the ends of the earth for you.
Elizabeth: I shouldn't like that. I'm far too fond of you.
Victor: I wish you were!
Elizabeth: Victor.
Victor: I'm sorry.

View Quote Villager: Maria, she's drowned...She has been murdered.
Vogel: I'll see that justice is done. Who is it?

View Quote Villagers: Burn the mill! Burn it down! Burn the mill!