Bram Stoker's Dracula


"I didn't think the accent was that bad, but supposedly it was."
-Empire, April 1994

"I kind of stunk in 'Dracula,' and that was a drag."
-LA Daily News, Friday, August 2, 1996

"Well, this is another day, another story and you've got Coppola's passion, and when you have that, you have something that is going to be...extraordinary. I think Coppola's got something to say, he's got a vision, a reason to do this. Making it, he wanted all of us to go more and more out there, to be extraordinary and adventurous like he was being with the camera and with the film's look. You know, sometimes the rest of us couldn't keep up, but, with those other actors - I mean, Richard Grant, Cary Elwes, Tom Waits, Anthony Hopkins, Winona Ryder, Gary Oldman, Sadie Frost - Coppola made me feel I could fly."
-Movieline, November 1992

"We were doing a scene where Dracula and Harker, my character, are signing the deeds for the properties in London. I was jazzed. It's like what the leader of our band, Greg, calls 'the X factor,' when everything goes right. That scene with Gary in Dracula was something. I'd put that up there with working with Crispin Glover in River's Edge."
-Movieline, November 1992

"I just felt that I could have done more. The other actors performances were so operatic, and I didn't hold up my end of the bargain. My performance was too introverted and closed-in and safe. Since Dracula came out I've always felt that I could have played it much more aggressive. Maybe aggressive is the wrong word. Riskier. I could have taken more risks. I could have given a riskier performance. Francis tried to spur me on to greater heights, but I could not reach them. I didn't act very well. I'll leave it at that."
-Premiere, September 1994

"I was just hired on the strength of Winona Ryder putting me forward for the part. The director, Francis Ford Coppola, didn't really know my work but he'd been told that I was popular with younger people."
-Smash Hits, 28 Sept - 11 Oct 1994

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