Love at First Bite (1979)

Richard Benjamin: Dr. Jeff Rosenberg

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Quotes 

• Count Dracula : Did you have a nice day, my beauty?

  Cindy Sondheim : Well, Rene ran my ass off all day. I mean, he may be the best photographer in New York City, but he's still a bitch.

  Doctor Jeff Rosenberg : Now, now, darling. They have a right to their life.

  Cindy Sondheim : Yes, I know, Jeffrey. They love in their way, we love in ours, who's to say which is right, by the 21st century, homosexuality will probably be the normal lifestyle.

  Doctor Jeff Rosenberg : Excellent.

• [Rosenberg approaches Dracula in a restaurant] 

  Doctor Jeff Rosenberg : The second way to kill a vampire, Count; three silver bullets through the heart!

  Cindy Soundheim : Jeffrey!

  [Jeff shoots Dracula three times] 

  Count Dracula : No, Rosenberg, that is a werewolf

  Doctor Jeff Rosenberg : A werewolf? Really? Are you sure?

  [Guards start to take him away] 

  Doctor Jeff Rosenberg : [to the guards]  No harm done! The man's all right! This was for a werewolf! No problem! Calm down! Take it easy! I'm a doctor! I know where I'm going!

• Dr. Jeffrey Rosenberg : [triumphantly]  Well, Count, what do you say to that?

  [Pulls out a Star of David] 

  Dr. Jeffrey Rosenberg : [Dracula hides his face, then realizes what it is and removes his hands] 

  Count Dracula : I would say, leave Cindy alone and find yourself a nice Jewish girl, Doctor!

  Dr. Jeffrey Rosenberg : Huh?

  [looks at star] 

  Dr. Jeffrey Rosenberg : Ah shit! It's the other one, isn't it?

• Doctor Jeff Rosenberg : Look, a check. She paid me everything she owes me. She left me, but she learned something. She's a responsible person, or whatever.

• [repeated line] 

  Dr. Jeffrey Rosenberg : I'm a doctor! I know what I'm doing.

• Dr. Jeffrey Rosenberg : My name is Dr. Jeffrey Rosenberg, and I want to talk to you about a man who sucks the blood out of people.

  Lieutenant Ferguson : A loan shark, eh? What's 's name.

• Lieutenant Ferguson : You know, we can't go in there without a warrant.

  Dr. Jeffrey Rosenberg : If we don't, her immortal soul will be lost forever!

  Lieutenant Ferguson : If we do, I'll lose my pension.

• Cindy Sondheim : [to Renfield]  Why did you tell him that?

  Dr. Jeffrey Rosenberg : Because the bad guys always tell the good guys what they're going to do just before they try to kill them.

  Renfield : He's absolutely right, Miss Cindy, that's part of the rules. But in this case, WE are the good guys.

• [Rosenberg and the lieutenant arrive at Cindy's apartment building to find Dracula's hearse parked out front] 

  Doctor Jeff Rosenberg : Look at this! It's *him*!

  Lieutenant Ferguson : Yeah... or a rock group!

• Doctor Jeff Rosenberg : You know what Freud said: if you don't pay for it,

  [Cindy says it with him] 

  Doctor Jeff Rosenberg : you don't get better.

• [after Rosenberg has set Dracula's Coffin on Fire] 

  Dr. Jeffrey Rosenberg : This is a perfect example of a man taking charge of his own life. And I feel... pretty good!

• Dr. Jeffrey Rosenberg : [speaking of Dracula]  Where is he?

  Cindy Soundheim : He'll be here.

  Dr. Jeffrey Rosenberg : Another fly by night character.

• Dr. Jeffrey Rosenberg : [picking hotel room lock]  Every now and then, it sure helps to have a patient doing five to ten for breaking and entering.

• [Rosenberg is about to set Dracula's coffin on fire] 

  Dr. Jeffrey Rosenberg : In the name of all the Van Helsings who have ever lived... burn, baby! Burn!

  [throws the lit match on the coffin, and the coffin begins to ignite] 

• Doctor Jeff Rosenberg : No!

  Cindy Soundheim : What?

  Doctor Jeff Rosenberg : No! It can't be!

  Cindy Soundheim : What, Jeffrey?

  Doctor Jeff Rosenberg : Dracula!

  Cindy Soundheim : How did you know his name?

• Doctor Jeff Rosenberg : Marry me.

  Cindy Sondheim : Jeff, please.

  Doctor Jeff Rosenberg : I've been thinking about it. We should get married.

  Cindy Sondheim : But you've always told me I don't want to get married.

  Doctor Jeff Rosenberg : Yes you do, yes you do. I was going to tell you next Tuesday when you came into the office. I'm getting the house, Largemont, 22 minutes from midtown. Good schools. No tennis court, but there's room for one. God, we'll love it there.