Van Helsing Quotes:

To have memories of those you have loved and lost is perhaps harder than to have no memories.

- Hugh Jackman

source: FaceBook post by Hugh Jackman from Nov 21, 2011

topic: Memories, Lost, Van Helsing, Loved And Lost, No Memory

Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.

- Bram Stoker

source: Bram Stoker (1904). “Dracula”, p.330, Hayes Barton Press

topic: Thinking, Mad, Long, Van Helsing

I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.

- Bram Stoker

topic: Heart, Cutting, Want, Van Helsing

For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing.

- Garrett Fort

topic: Wise, Men, Single Life, Van Helsing

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

- Jim Butcher

source: Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.997, Penguin

topic: Bible, Shadow Of Death, Death Of A Loved One, Valley Of Death, Someone Dying

I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- "Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!" He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- "Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!

- Bram Stoker

topic: Girl, Lasts, Poor, Van Helsing

We read the [Dracula] scripts, but Jess [De Gouw] and I are completely taken out of the hunts and anything with Van Helsing. We're just living our lives, as our characters.

- Oliver Jackson-Cohen

topic: Taken, Character, Scripts, Van Helsing

I would say probably my least favorite costume ever was in 'Van Helsing.' That was a huge pain because it had thigh-high boots with 30 buckles on them that had to be done up individually.

- Kate Beckinsale

source: Interview with Ruth Hilton, www.maxim.com. June 29, 2011.

topic: Pain, Boots, Done, Buckles, Van Helsing

A generic vampire tale in the Underworld vein that comes closer to the infamous Van Helsing than a memorable re-interpretation of a legendary monster.

- James Berardinelli

topic: Memorable, Vampire, Monsters, Van Helsing, Underworld

It`s the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent.

- Kate Beckinsale

topic: Copying, Literature, Scripts, Van Helsing, Russian Literature

I think any supernatural hero today, whether he's a vampire, werewolf, a resuscitated mummy, whatever he is, is going to have to deal with the fact that scientists are going to want to catch him and study him. His big enemy is not going to be Dr. Van Helsing today, it's going to be the doctor who wants to put him in a lab and get his blood for what it can do to cure disease or grant immortality.

- Anne Rice

topic: Hero, Thinking, Doctors, Van Helsing, Mummy

I think that's why I gravitated toward slightly broader... ummm, more conceptual kinds of movies, Underworld and Van Helsing. That was as much as I could actually give. But you're actually more of an animated figure. It does go against the grain, as an actor.

- Kate Beckinsale

topic: Thinking, Giving, Doe, Van Helsing, Underworld

Those who delight in bad movies and enjoy producing their own unfilmed versions of Mystery Science Theater 3000 may gain a measure of semi-masochistic enjoyment out of Van Helsing . There are quite a few unintentionally funny moments, although the overall experience was too intensely painful for me to be able to advocate it as being "so bad, it's good.

- James Berardinelli

source: Review of "Van Helsing", reelviews.net, 2004.

topic: Delight, May, Able, Masochistic, Van Helsing

My parents were dismayed by my love of horror movies as a young girl, then even more dismayed when I kept rooting for Dracula to win instead of Van Helsing.

- Jeaniene Frost

topic: Girl, Winning, Parent, Van Helsing

Yes, but you are still only human.” I laughed, the sound of it drowned out by the crunch of rocks as the mountain continued to shudder as though in the throes of birth pangs. “So was Van Helsing, yet in every movie, he beat the vampire in the end. Never underestimate the power of humanity.

- Jeaniene Frost

topic: Rocks, Humanity, Mountain, Van Helsing

I’d learned that my mother was a badass in disguise. She was Van Helsing in an apron and heels, and—at least for the time being—I couldn’t think of a single thing cooler than that.

- Rachel Vincent

source: Rachel Vincent (2016). “Rogue”, p.229, MIRA

topic: Mother, Badass, Thinking, Aprons, Van Helsing

There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route.

- Terry Gilliam

topic: Sides, Want, Vans, Van Helsing