Penny Dreadful (TV Series)

Resurrection (2014)

Alun Armstrong: Vincent Brand

Quotes 

• [Vincent Brand tells The Creature that the theater is where the malformed find grace] 

  Vincent Brand : There is a place where the malformed find grace, where the hideous can be beautiful, where strangeness is not shunned, but celebrated. This place is the theatre.

• [Vincent Brand gives The Creature the stage name of Caliban] 

  Vincent Brand : You know, occurs to me, given my total self-absorption, I never asked your name.

  Vincent Brand : [the Creature hesitates to answer]  Fear not. You shall have a nom de theater. Do you know 'The Tempest'?

  The Creature : No.

  Vincent Brand : You shall be Caliban.

  The Creature : Caliban. Who's he?

  Vincent Brand : Ah! We'll add it to the bill next week and you'll see. Of course in our version Caliban eats Prospero.

• [Vincent Brand asks The Creature if he needs work] 

  Vincent Brand : Do you need work?

  The Creature : Yes.

  Vincent Brand : Your... Visage, creates challenges?

  The Creature : It is a horror.

  Vincent Brand : Not everywhere.

• [Vincent Brand shows The Creature the outside of the Theater] 

  Vincent Brand : My friend, there was a time this modest hall resounded with Shakespeare, seasons of it, great vomits of it. My last turn was when I gave my Leontes. 'I have drunk and seen the spider!' Ah, but that was many seasons ago. Times have changed. Nowadays, it's all... Ibsen. Come! Let us make our entrance.

  Vincent Brand : [as The Creature takes a step, Vincent Brand tells him]  Oh, no. We do not enter here. We use the stage door.