Louis de Pointe du Lac quotes from Interview with the Vampire

Who am I supposed to love? You two have each other? Who's my Lestat? Who's my Louis? I'm not human. What human would want me? Perverts? Like the uncle at the roomin' house who used to watch me pee? Or little boys? And forty years from now, still little boys? [Shouts] How you gonna fix it, huh? Which one of you gonna fuck me?

Well, you're not my type. I like a fuller figure.

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Lestat!

She's being impossible!

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It's been months. Her meals are too meager. What if you bring one of your kills into her room? We could tie him up next to the coffin...

She's not surviving on birds or nocturnals, Louis. She waits for that slither of time when I'm on the hunt and you've gone round the back to make nice with the rat catcher.

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Or she's slowly starving herself.

Bon. I know what I'd do, but you've cut my hands off. My parenting is...

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Sadistic?

[Chuckles] ... so save your words when it comes to Claudia.

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She's in there 'cause of you.

[Slams the piano keys] Ça suffit!

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You wanted her, you fix her!

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We're doin' this together.

Do you remember our life, how happy we were before her?

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Happy? We were not happy!

An anvil tied around our ankles pulling us towards the pitch-black ocean floor!

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I had no words for her. What words were there? 'It all happened so fast.' 'I was trying to save you.' 'All vampires are born out of trauma.' We made her out of remorse. Out of selfishness.

Poor dear. She wasn't held enough between ritualistic murders.

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She spent every night for half a decade with no friends, locked in the emotional storm of puberty.

Look, Charlie Manson wrote a couple of beautiful songs. Still, he was Charlie Manson.

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Is that all you think of her?

Mostly. I also think she makes you and Frenchy look like a couple of whiny, existential queens.

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Why can't I make one? No matter how much blood I give them, they just lie there gaspin'.

What is this? Look at me! What have you done?

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Did you try to make another?

Boy from Ponchatoula. Boy from Hollygrove. Boy with a bow tie out in Algiers.

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Claudia, how'd you figure this was gon' go?

[To Lestat] Make me one.

Because you turned out so well.

'Cause if you don't, I'm gonna go out there and find other vampires.

If you could find them, which you won't, they would shred you to strips, because you are built like a bird, because you are a mistake!

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[Voiceover] Claudia's night rambles had exposed us.

Assume we are under suspicion. Assume our finances no longer provide us protection.

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Make your kills outside the city. One a night. No persons of note--unfortunates, undesirables.

No more incinerator. New locks on the doors. Shutter the windows. No parties, no friends.

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[voiceover] But her absence would lay bare who we were without her, a simmering pot of resentments.

We should leave the city, start anew, turn a betrayal into an opportunity. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles.

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Paris.

No.

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Mm-hmm.

We should dismantle her room.

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You don't touch her room. She'll be back.

No, she won't.

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[Voiceover] There would be no Roaring Twenties for us. We would be underground for seven years.

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Is your medicine taking?

It's cold and itchy. Thanks for asking.

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Are you still dreaming about our first meeting, Daniel?

I keep waking up just before you ask me back to your shitty apartment.

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Hey, Doc, did you know there's a flying vampire apocalypse coming your way?

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Most vampires do not possess the Cloud Gift. With few exceptions, only the most ancient of us have it.

You know he's a vampire, right?

I do not discuss my patients with anyone but the patients themselves.

[to the recorder] That's the voice of Dr. Fareer Bhansali...

That is not my voice.

...He's the personal physician to the deputy prime minister and...

And I am not here.

...the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac.

Rashid

He's officially off the record.

NDAs signed by any and all who cross the threshold, eh?

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Can you fly, Louis?

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No.

So for twenty years, you lived with the vampire Lestat and you didn't know he had the flying gift?

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The Cloud Gift. And yes, it was a remarkable bit of restraint he managed.

Why would he do that?

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I suppose he thought if he exposed all his power to me, I would never feel his equal and the relationship would suffer.

'He only beat me the one time, Officer. It's not his fault.' Classic Stockholm, eh, Doc?

I am not here.

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She's coming up on 33.

It's a lick and a promise in vampire years.

Maybe, but I'm not your child anymore. That's rule number five. I'll be your companion, your sister.

It's not as simple as choosing a new family configuration. 'Now I'm your cousin.' 'Now I'm your aunt.' I am your maker!

But not my uncle or my daddy. I'm your sister or that's the door.

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[Louis bursts into Antoinette's house to find her and Lestat naked in bed]

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[Shouting] Six years of begging. You think a song's gon' get a rise out of me?

Did you like it?

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This her singing?

It's a clear voice. I wanted to obstacle to the lyric. [Louis smashes the record]

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Write me a song and put your lover's voice on it? What the fuck is wrong with your head?

Louis, you're soaking wet.

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I swim faster than I drive. [To Antoinette] Put some clothes on. Get the fuck out.

Antoinette

This is my house.

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Do I look like I care?

Antoinette

Lestat.

Leave. [To Louis] You swam the Mississippi to find me?

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I hate you.

As you should.

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He could fly?

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Yes.

Like Superman?

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Not like Superman. Superman is a fictional character.

But in the air with a 'fuck you to Newtonian physics' flying?

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He said it was more like floating, arising at will, propelling in a direction by the decision. He called it 'the Cloud Gift.'

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You're ugly when you act like that.

Better ugly than blind.

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'I Felt a Funeral in My Brain.' She also wrote one called 'A Coffin Is a Small Domain.' I mean, come on!

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Emily Dickinson is not a vampire.

How do you know?

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Cause she's dead.

How do you know?

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She got a grave. She got a tombstone.

So do you.

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For six years in all, these raw and desperate mea culpas came like the tide. And for six years, they were greeted with silence or fire. We burned more gifts than bodies in that decade, but they would not stop coming. And Lestat's relentless determination began to crack my considerable armor. Perhaps it was the modesty of the gesture... but in the spring of 1937, one broke through. He had written it himself in the music of the hour. His first composition in 100 years... Rashid, please play the song in question for Mr. Molloy and the doctor.

I'm not here.

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[Come to Me plays in the background] He had engaged a local record company. And when the musicians they hired proved unsatisfactory, he played all the instruments himself.

Daniel Molloy: That's his voice?

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Yeah. He pressed only one album. Had the master recordings destroyed. You're listening to an inferior re-recording now. The audacity of it all was matched only by its sincerity. He had made the near-perfect valentine... with one flaw. One perfectly premeditated flaw.