Lestat de Lioncourt quotes from Interview with the Vampire

Lestat de Lioncourt

How was college? Magna cum? Summa cum? Phi Beta Kappa?

I've read a lot of books. Started with Persia and Babylon, the old gods who longed for blood. A lot of it was popcorn, but a few old tomes. A Romanian tract on 'vampirs.' A strange, old Hungarian text, 'Masticatione Mortuorum,' the 'chewing dead.' I plan to leave for that part of the world as soon as I can.

Lestat de Lioncourt

So... quick stop home to do laundry before you fuck off for good.

A quick stop to pick up Louis.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Perused a few folklore anthologies, and now you're going to cross the ocean and take on a society of monsters.

If what I read is lies, then tell me what's true. [Lestat stares without answering and Claudia scoffs] Seven years and what's changed, other than you need a housekeeper?

Lestat de Lioncourt

[Dragging Louis by the throat] I fought myself a million times, fought my nature, controlled my temper. I never once harmed you.

Uncle Les!

Lestat de Lioncourt

[Stops] It's 'Uncle Les' now suddenly?

Let him go! He didn't do nothin'! Let him go! It's me you want!

Lestat de Lioncourt

Listen to me, and listen very carefully, my infant death. It was never you! [To Louis] I chose you! [Bites Louis's neck and flies off with him]

Lestat de Lioncourt

The vampires out there are vicious. [Observing Claudia's facial expression] Oh... but you've learned that already. Who did you meet out there in the American hinterland? Read her, Louis.

That's it, keep him scared. [To Louis] That's his way.

Lestat de Lioncourt

The vampires in Europe are much, much worse.

[To Louis] But I think *he's* scared.

Lestat de Lioncourt

I never asked. How did Charlie taste? Like the love you'll never really know?

[To Louis] And when he's scared, he ridicules.

Lestat de Lioncourt

[Holding a bleeding and beaten Louis while hovering in the air thousands of miles above New Orleans] I have waited, Louis. I have patiently waited, in vain, for you to love me as I love you. Just say it. Say, 'Lestat, I am never going to love you.' It would help me a great deal to hear that from your lips. Your quivering, hateful lips.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Let go of me!

Lestat de Lioncourt

Anything for you. [Lets go of Louis, who plummets to the ground]

Lestat de Lioncourt

The prodigal daughter.

I've come to apologize. I put you both in a bad spot. I wasn't right in my head. I am now.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Apology not accepted.

[Telepathically] Come with me! Come with me, Louis!

Lestat de Lioncourt

Louis...

[Aloud] I thought I could live without you, but I was wrong.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Louis. [Shouts] Louis!

[Telepathically] His love is a small box he keeps you in. Don't stay in it.

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[Shouting] A thousand nights of sulking, and the first sight of her, you are just gonna up and leave me?

[Shouting aloud] Please, come with me! Let's meet vampires worthy of your love!

Lestat de Lioncourt

[Reading aloud from Claudia's diary] 'Dear diary, am I gonna be a virgin every single time I do it? Won't my skin down there grow back like my hair does when I cut it?'

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Jesus.

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?

Lestat de Lioncourt

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

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Lestat!

Lestat de Lioncourt

She's being impossible!

Louis de Pointe du Lac

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...

Lestat de Lioncourt

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.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Or she's slowly starving herself.

Lestat de Lioncourt

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

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Sadistic?

Lestat de Lioncourt

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

Louis de Pointe du Lac

She's in there 'cause of you.

Lestat de Lioncourt

[Slams the piano keys] Ça suffit!

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You wanted her, you fix her!

Louis de Pointe du Lac

We're doin' this together.

Lestat de Lioncourt

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

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Happy? We were not happy!

Lestat de Lioncourt

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

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

Lestat de Lioncourt

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

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Did you try to make another?

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

Louis de Pointe du Lac

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

[To Lestat] Make me one.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Because you turned out so well.

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

Lestat de Lioncourt

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!

Louis de Pointe du Lac

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

Lestat de Lioncourt

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

Louis de Pointe du Lac

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

Lestat de Lioncourt

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

Louis de Pointe du Lac

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

Lestat de Lioncourt

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

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Paris.

Lestat de Lioncourt

No.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Mm-hmm.

Lestat de Lioncourt

We should dismantle her room.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

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

Lestat de Lioncourt

No, she won't.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

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

Lestat de Lioncourt

Oh, it's you who lost, Claudia, for the many hundredth time. I admire your steadfast pursuit of a game you clearly have no acumen for.

My massa taught me how to play, but only enough to occupy his time.

Lestat de Lioncourt

She's an affected, self-absorbed, nasty little creature who's fooled herself into thinking she's smarter than she is and she is poisoning Louis against me.

Antoinette

You don't need her and you don't need him. They don't appreciate you like I do.

Lestat de Lioncourt

I have given her so many gifts, so many incalculable gifts. And you're right, it is *both* of them. He broods. She snipes. That's why I need you. You fortify me against them.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Louis, I don't know what possessed me that night.

Three years ago. That night three years ago, he means.

Lestat de Lioncourt

I was someone I don't want to be anymore. I've changed. Let me prove it to you. I'm nothing without you. I'm nothing without both of you. If you want me to go away, just say so. I'll obey you. I'll leave your life forever. [Louis doesn't answer]

Lestat de Lioncourt

This silence is cruel. And you were never cruel, Louis.