Lestat de Lioncourt quotes from Interview with the Vampire

Lestat de Lioncourt

[Singing] Oh, joy, oh, boy. Where do we go from here...

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Not funny.

Lestat de Lioncourt

What can I say? I'm a lot. I'm not perfect.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

[Scoffs] I knew it. I knew you were there.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Yes.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

You jealous?

Lestat de Lioncourt

Yes. I don't like sharing.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

What about Antoinette?

Lestat de Lioncourt

It's different. I don't have feelings for her.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

He did me some face and I drove him home!

Lestat de Lioncourt

[Shouts] I heard your hearts dancing!

Louis de Pointe du Lac

I can smell her on you.

Lestat de Lioncourt

From time to time, I like a little variety. There. I said it. We're communicating so much better now, no?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

So I can fuck whoever I want?

Lestat de Lioncourt

Of course... Of course! Of course. As long as you come home to me. Of course. [Chuckles]

Lestat de Lioncourt

[Shouting] I heard your hearts dancing!

Louis de Pointe du Lac

[Shouting] You watched the whole thing like some creeper!

Lestat de Lioncourt

And then I watched you pull over and drain a dog and run down an alleyway for two more rats! This is not a life!

Louis de Pointe du Lac

That's 'cause you took my life!

Lestat de Lioncourt

You'll see as your powers grow, you can see their thoughts, like a one-reeler almost. Dull, monotonous picture shows. It's a very distracting gift, the petty musings of meat.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Peel back on me then. What am I thinkin' right now?

Lestat de Lioncourt

You'll have to tell me yourself. A sacrifice is made when the Dark Gift is shared.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

You can't read my mind anymore?

Lestat de Lioncourt

The architects of our creation mean to humble us. We're at the mercy of the other's discretion.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Just like the meat.

Lestat de Lioncourt

You're not one of them anymore, fledgling. You chase after phantoms of your former self. I'll break you of it.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

How many of us are out there? We can't be the only ones.

Lestat de Lioncourt

How many vampires? Not many, I'm afraid. Maybe a hundred... A hundred and one.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

What's happening?

Lestat de Lioncourt

Your body is confused. Your lungs feel like water, your heart, fire. You feel as if you're dying... Because you are.

Lestat de Lioncourt

When I first started learning English, I abhorred it. Every word felt like a doorknob falling out of my mouth. Chapeau was a hat, étoile was a star, a pamplemousse was a grapefruit...

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Killin' folks ain't a second language!

Lestat de Lioncourt

...but, but! When I started dreaming in English, that's when I embraced it. And now I have English consonants to thank for this astonishing jawline.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

You should just throw me in the incinerator, make another one.

Lestat de Lioncourt

What a waste that would be. I have two centuries walked this earth and can report, you have no twin. No one as angry, as stubborn, as unaccommodating, as maddening...

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Sound like trash to me, as loving, as dedicated, as thoughtful, as imperfectly perfect as you've become. You're a challenge every sunset, Saint Louis, and I'd have it no other way.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Claudia has expressed an interest in going home.

Grace de Pointe du Lac

It is late for a young lady...

The smell is awful.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Hmm. Wakes were invented in places where it snows.

How old are you again, Uncle Les?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Hundred and sixty.

Lestat de Lioncourt

A hundred and fifty-nine.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Some sleep is what she needs.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Sedation is what she needs.

Lestat de Lioncourt

You draw me into your gloom.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

It's your fault she's gone. If you hadn't pushed her...

Lestat de Lioncourt

Claudia.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

If you hadn't done your...

Lestat de Lioncourt

Claudia. Claudia. [Scoffs] I cannot listen to this insanity about Claudia one more time. Bordel de merde. Il me chie dans la malle jusqu'au cadenas!

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Flaubert's style is so dense.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Louis Armstrong's in town tonight, playing at the Pelican. Should we make it a night of the two Louis?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

The absence of metaphor is so striking.

Lestat de Lioncourt

You sound like every pompous Sorbonne student I've ever eaten.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Should I do like you instead? Read the first ten pages of every book? Pass myself off as cultured?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

[Talking over Lestat] Use my middling command of literary canon to impress some hapless human I'm gonna kill in a few hours anyway.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

[Reading aloud a newspaper article] 'Rash of mysterious deaths at university libraries perplex authorities.' Listen to this. 'Housekeeping staff at Vanderbilt University tried to rouse students who appeared to have fallen asleep at their studies, only to discover that they were, in fact, deceased. Similar incidents have been recorded at the College of Charleston, Lincoln University in Jefferson City, and the University of Alabama.' It's her. It has to be her.

Lestat de Lioncourt

It could be her. But I am the one who is presently standing in front of you. And, unlike Claudia, I am a full-blooded adult with all the right appendages. So if my considerable considerables continue to be squandered... [Lestat storms out with Louis continuing reading]

Lestat de Lioncourt

She was a destitute little girl, destined to live an inconsequential little life.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

And we took it from her. We cursed her.