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The highly-anticipated movie, "The Twilight Saga: New Moon", opened this weekend and broke the box office. According to The Associated Press, the film made $72.7 million yesterday—giving it the record for a single day of domestic box office sales. Of course, this is no surprise considering that vampires have long been a part of the big screen. Since “Nosferatu”, a silent vampire movie released in 1922, moviegoers have been bitten by the vampiric bug. Below are quotes to celebrate our love of the undead.
1. "I was particularly stunned by the casting of [Tom] Cruise, who is no more my Vampire LeStat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler."
–Anne Rice
2. "Lisa, vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and Eskimos."
–Homer Simpson
3. “All writers are vampires.”
–James Gandolfini
4. “Film spectators are quiet vampires.”
–Jim Morrison
5. “I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.”
–Walter Jon Williams
6. "I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow."
–Bela Lugosi
7. "Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away...Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz [liquid chicken fat] is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense."
–Calvin Trillin
8. “I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it.”
–Christopher Atkins
9. “The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.”
–Garrett Fort
10. “There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.”
–Bram Stoker
11. “Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.”
–Frank Langella
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