To be honest, unless you rocket straight to stardom as a gorgeous young vampire, you can spend a lot of time working behind a bar.

- Adam Rayner

I've worked with Len Wiseman before, on the 'Underworld' series, in which I was a vampire. The first two of those were his first two films. And I admire him beyond measure. I think he's tremendous, as a man and as a director.

- Bill Nighy

The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.

- Bill Nighy

There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.

- Bela Lugosi

The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.

- Bela Lugosi

I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.

- Bela Lugosi

When I was filming 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' in America, for a couple of weeks beforehand we would always fit in a family holiday in California.

- Anthony Head

I've noticed that when people make vampire movies, they're always determining which of the rules they're going to stick to and which they'll abandon.

- Alexandra Cassavetes

I wanted to make an adult vampire film, not something for children.

- Alexandra Cassavetes

I think the reason vampire movies have been so popular over time is that they share so many parallels with human beings.

- Alexandra Cassavetes

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

- Angelina Jolie

I love 'The Vampire Diaries!' I can't help it - it's such a teeny-bopper show, but I think I just like it to stare at the guys.

- Ashley Wagner

One of my favorite vampire movies is 'Nosferatu,' which has a palpable sense of dread that's a pre-war dread.

- Anton Yelchin

The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.

- Anne Rice

The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?

- Anne Rice

Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles.

- Anne Rice

There was one vampire movie that Gerard Butler was in, 'Dracula 2000,' and they touched on something interesting, but it only worked in the context of that particular movie, which was that the original vampire was Judas.

- Amy Heckerling

There's a whole vampire community online - those are some crazy people.

- Amy Heckerling

I'm aware of 'Twilight,' but I've never seen the movies or read any of the books. Frankly, the story leaves me cold - why do a vampire story about abstinence?

- Alan Ball

I don't really know what it is about vampires that makes them such a powerful symbol, metaphor, whatever in people's consciousness. But I do know they're tremendously powerful. I mean, there's a vampire on 'Sesame Street.' And Count Chocula. I don't know why it's so powerful.

- Alan Ball