Count Orlok
[to Thomas]
You are late. The midnight hour is passed, and my attendants have all retired.
Played by Bill Skarsgård 
Nosferatu (2024) · 19 quotes
Nosferatu (2024) · 19 quotes
You awakened me from an eternity of darkness. You... You... You are not for the living. You are not for humankind.
More lines from Count Orlok
3 quotes Count Orlok
Count Orlok
[to Thomas]
I will be addressed as the honour of my blood commands it.
Count Orlok
[to Knock]
Silence, dog! Your entreaties grow insolent. You shall crave of me nothing.
Scenes with Count Orlok
3 scenes
Thomas Hutter
I have-- My lord, I have questions about the, um... unfamiliar customs of the peasantry and the... errant wanderers. Last night, I saw... or rather, I believe I saw a band of gypsies, they... ventured to a small birch grove and--
Count Orlok
I fear we yet keep close many superstitions here that may seem backward to a young man of your high learning.
Thomas Hutter
These gypsies, they... exhumed a corpse.
Count Orlok
It is their filthy ritual.
Thomas Hutter
What manner of ritual?
Count Orlok
SPEAK NOT OF IT AGAIN!
Thomas Hutter
I have been enduring the most irregular dreams. I fear I have taken ill.
Count Orlok
It is a black omen to journey in poor health. You will remain and well rest yourself.
Thomas Hutter
I must object, my lord.
Count Orlok
You will obey this, my counsel.
Ellen Hutter
You. I have felt you... crawling like a serpent in my body.
Count Orlok
It is not me. It is your own nature.
Ellen Hutter
No. I love Thomas.
Count Orlok
Love is inferior to you. I told you, you are not of humankind.
Ellen Hutter
You are a villain to speak so.
Count Orlok
I am an appetite, nothing more. O'er centuries, a loathsome beast, I lay within the darkest pit. 'Til you did wake me, enchantress, and stir me from my grave. You are my affliction.
Ellen Hutter
I care nothing of your afflications!
Count Orlok
Yet, even now, we are fated. Your husband has signed his name covenanted you to my person for but a sack of gold.
Ellen Hutter
Lies!
Count Orlok
For gold did he absolve his nuptial bond.
Ellen Hutter
You know nothing of him-
Count Orlok
And the resignation must be completed by you, freely of thine own will.
Ellen Hutter
You are a deceiver!
Count Orlok
You deceive yourself.
Ellen Hutter
I was but an innocent child-
Count Orlok
And thought you I would not return? Thought you I would not? Your passion is bound to me.
Ellen Hutter
You cannot love.
Count Orlok
I cannot. Yet, I cannot be sated without you.
Count Orlok
[Ellen draws closer, seemingly drawn in by Orlok's very presence]
Remember how once we were? A moment. Remember?
Ellen Hutter
[A moment of silence between them both]
I... abhor you.
Count Orlok
Then you are FALSE!
Count Orlok
[He angrily throws Ellen to the floor]
So you wish me to prove my enmity as well?! I will leave you three nights! Tonight was the first! Tonight you denied yourself, and thereby you suffer me to vanish up the lives of those you love!
Ellen Hutter
Denied myself?! You revel in my torture!
Count Orlok
Upon the third night you will submit, or he you call your husband shall perish by my hand.
Ellen Hutter
No...
Count Orlok
‘Til you bid me come, shall you watch the world become as naught.
Ellen Hutter
NO!
[Orlok roars at Ellen, who suddenly wakes]
