Top 13 Rasputin Quotes & Sayings

Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.

Rasputin's daughter understands the revolution. She would have been an outsider, a spectator in the royal family and to the revolution.

I'm hoping to do a Broadway musical on the life of Rasputin. He's someone I can definitely identify with.

Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin.

Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.

I've long been obsessed with the fantastical and sometimes unbelievable story of the life and death of Rasputin.

I like vampires, tuberculosis, anything to do with blood. Then I read a biography of Rasputin and found out he'd had this daughter who had become a famous lion tamer and been billed as the daughter of the mad monk who was able to hypnotize animals with her eyes. It gave me a vision.

I'm interested in playing Rasputin at some point. I find him such a fascinating character and a fascinating period in Russian history. Either Rasputin or Jesus. I think I have more of a chance to play Rasputin.

He’s like the Rasputin of reapers.

I think often people know about Rasputin in Russian history - but know only a little bit. He's an interesting man, who in general I think meant well.

It's very rare that someone gets the death penalty for charges of conspiracy, for his influence, for his Svengali-Rasputin act.

I’m assuming you’re as mystified by this as the rest of us, Rasputin. No. I’m not. I have been planning to destroy the Breakworld since I was a child. [silence] This is why I don’t make so many jokes. I never know when is good.

There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.