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"[a bat poops on the stairs] Children of the night... what a mess they make!"
"[waking up from a bad dream] Oh, it's night-time. I was having... a daymare."
"[after rising from his coffin and hitting his head on a chandelier] I must move the coffin. [pause] Or the chandelier."
"[his last line] Renfield, you asshole!"
"[in a dream, at a picnic] I'm drinking wine, and I'm eating chicken!"
"[embarrassed after hearing Renfield and Lucy screaming from outside] Renfield, you idiot."
"[upon seeing two voluptuous brides of Dracula - one rubbing a table seductively, the other rubbing the bedpost seductively] My God! What are you doing to the furniture?"
"Yesss... MASSSTER!"
"[as the vampire women are seducing Renfield] No, this is wrong. This is wrong! This is wrong, you hear me? Wrong! This is ... Wrong me! Wrong me! Wrong my brains out!"
"I didn't see anything! I didn't see anything [guard locks door] I saw everything! [cackles]"
"[upon hearing Dr. Seward's instruction to the guard: "Take him back to his cell and give him a you-know-what!"] No! No! Not another enema!"
"Dr. Seward: Would an enema help?"
"Jonathan Harker: [watching Mina's reflection in a mirror as she's dancing with Dracula, where it looks like she's dancing alone] She's doing quite well without him, isn't she?"
"Nurse: [Upon seeing the unconscious medical students on the floor] Well done, doctor! Ten out of ten!"
"Jonathan Harker: Oh yes, my dear. The Opera is astonishing. The music is fraught with love, hate, sensuality, and unbridled passion... all the things in my life that I've managed to suppress."
"Leslie Nielsen - Count Dracula"
"Peter MacNicol - R.M. Renfield"
"Steven Weber - Jonathan Harker"
"Amy Yasbeck - Mina Murray"
"Mel Brooks - Dr. Abraham Van Helsing"
"Lysette Anthony - Lucy Westenra"
"Harvey Korman - Dr. Jack Seward"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.