Louis de Pointe du Lac quotes from Interview with the Vampire

Louis de Pointe du Lac

It bears repeating, I did not consider myself a homosexual man at the time. I mean, I had had experiences. Guilt, shame, floating-on-a-sea-of-vodka type encounters. Obviously, I've come to embrace my sexuality. Course, you know that. We met at a gay bar, didn't we, Daniel?

Daniel Molloy

It was a good place to score. I did what I had to.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Bless me Father, for I have sinned. Grievously sinned.

Sign of the cross, son.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

I'm a drunk, Lord. I'm a liar. I am a thief, Lord. I profit off the miseries of other men, and I do it easy. Drugs, liquor, women. I lure them in and grab what they got, Lord. I take daughters with no homes and I put 'em out on the street, Lord, and I lie to myself sayin' I'm givin' 'em roof and food and dollar bills in they pocket, but I look in the mirror, I know what I am. The big man in the big house, stuffin' cotton in my ear so I can't hear their cries. And, Lord, I dragged my family into this mess with me. I shame my father. I failed my brother.

No, son.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

I lost my mother and sister, and rather than fix it like a man should, Lord, I run like a coward. I run to the bottle. I run to the grift. I run to bad beds. I laid down with a man. I laid down with the Devil. And he has roots in me. All his spindly roots in me. And I can't think nothin' anymore but his voice and his words! Please, help me! I am weak and I want to die!

Louis de Pointe du Lac

You killed Lily.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Cut short that magnificent life she was living? What a tragedy.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Ain't no fever out there. That's you. You bringin' the death to town.

Lestat de Lioncourt

I give death to those deserving. I'm not the Devil. You were wrong about that. But I can give you death.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

I've seen death over and over and over and over again. It's boring.

Daniel Molloy

That'll make a great blurb.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Why do you do this, Lestat?

Lestat de Lioncourt

Well, I like to do it. I enjoy it.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Well, I don't. You don't have to humiliate him.

Lestat de Lioncourt

[Shouts] Well, I don't say that you have to enjoy it! Kill them swiftly if you have to, but do it! Embrace what you are! You are a killer, Louis!

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Vampires are killers. Apex predators whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment, the ability to see a human life in its entirety, not with any mawkish sorrow, but with the thrilling satisfaction of being the end of that life and having a hand in the divine plan.

Daniel Molloy

Don't expect every reader to swallow that one.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Two vampires walk into a church. That's where we left off.

Daniel Molloy

Blissing out post-priesticide.

Lestat de Lioncourt

[Disposing of a body] This was your man's esquire sent in his stead.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

I was hungry.

Lestat de Lioncourt

A stone's throw from your place of business. What were you thinking?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

He disrespected me.

Lestat de Lioncourt

How did he do that?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

He said I did a good job.

Lestat de Lioncourt

You are a library of confusion!

Lestat de Lioncourt

Here's an idea: let's take a holiday. How about Rome?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Rome? Rome, Italy?

Lestat de Lioncourt

Would you prefer Rome, Wisconsin?

Lestat de Lioncourt

A couple of parish priests go missing, people say, 'Fine. Most likely kid fiddlers.' But this, this was an important man in town. The police will be looking for this man, fledgling!

Lestat de Lioncourt

[gesturing to the incinerator] That's why we got this beast, yeah? No, you need to show restraint, fledgling!

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Oh, you need to stop using that word right now, 'cause it's soundin' a little like 'slave.'

Lestat de Lioncourt

Don't say it...

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Well, that's what it fuckin' sound like. That's what it feel like sometimes.

Lestat de Lioncourt

And the carousel comes around again.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Fuck you!

Lestat de Lioncourt

Va te faire foutre aussi!

Louis de Pointe du Lac

You ever think that we -- that's to say, our kind -- were put on earth for a larger purpose?

Lestat de Lioncourt

I put you on this earth. Your purpose is to enjoy yourself.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

That can't be all there is. I know you don't believe that.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Well, tell me what I believe, Louis. Excavate the hoarded thoughts buried beneath my damned soul.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

You're angry.

Lestat de Lioncourt

I'm pondering.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Pondering what?

Lestat de Lioncourt

Your night had nothing to do with ridding the world of criminals or finding some morality to buoy your existence. You're ashamed of what we are.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Maybe I'm just pondering what I am.

Lestat de Lioncourt

For the infinitesimal time, you're a vampire.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

I don't want to kill people anymore. There it is.

Lestat de Lioncourt

A fish that doesn't swim. A bird refusing flight. You're going to struggle. I fear for the feline population of New Orleans.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

[Being confronted about the discrepancies in his recollection of his life with Lestat] The version we speak of now is the more nuanced portrait.

Daniel Molloy

Hmm. Or the more rehearsed.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Perhaps I was mistaken about the 'Wolverine Blues.'

Daniel Molloy

Fuck the 'Wolverine Blues.' Ken Burns can choke on the footnotes. It's the abused-abuser psychological relationship I'm talking about.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

I do not consider myself abused.

Daniel Molloy

I mean, usually when you're a little too close to it, the abused still loves the abuser, but you flipped it completely on its head.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

I'm not a victim.

Daniel Molloy

Fifty years later, you talk like he was your soulmate. Like you were locked in some fucked up gothic romance. Why?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

[Reading aloud from Daniel's memoir] 'I am in my Buick, staring in the rearview mirror at my daughter in the car seat, an hour after I gave Derek, a guy I don't know, the last 30 bucks I had. My editor reminds me it's seven years before car seats are mandatory. My ex-wife reminds me I never owned a Buick. This is the odyssey of recollection.' [Closes book]

Louis de Pointe du Lac

The tapes are an admitted performance. This is the premise of our interview. Half a century later, allow me my odyssey. [Daniel throws away the tapes of their first interview] Now who's performing?

Lestat de Lioncourt

We had a good run, but I did it for Louis. I do everything for Louis.

Antoinette

Yeah, I heard that about you two.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Oh? What have you heard?

Antoinette

I'm not a gossip.

Lestat de Lioncourt

But I am.

Antoinette

Well, people at the Azalea, they say... [Lestat runs his hands along Antoinette's waist] You're confusing me. [Laughs]

Lestat de Lioncourt

Oh, come now. I don't bite. What do the employees of the Azalea say about Louis and Lestat?

Antoinette

I'll answer with a question. Are there two beds upstairs or one?

Lestat de Lioncourt

Do you want to find out?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

No one goes upstairs, Miss Brown.

Antoinette

Well, there's my answer.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Still, what do you imagine confines us to a single note? Why not a chord? Why not a cluster?