Lestat de Lioncourt quotes from Interview with the Vampire

Let me go, Lestat.

Lestat de Lioncourt

In Louis' hour of need? I'm afraid I can't allow that. He's very fragile right now. Worse than the last time you abandoned him, when you filled your head with knowledge and hitched a ride on a motorbike.

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He picked you over me.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Louis couldn't pick an apple off a tree in his current state.

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Lestat de Lioncourt

Claudia... you left, without saying goodbye. Again. I'm sure it was an oversight, but still. You'd think your creator had earned the courtesy.

You didn't want me. You made me for Louis.

Lestat de Lioncourt

And he needs you now more than ever. He's in a terrible state.

He said I could go. He picked you over me.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Louis couldn't pick an apple off a tree in his current state. He'd grip it, tug at it, then, weak as he is, the stem would hold.

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She's coming up on 33.

Lestat de Lioncourt

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.

Lestat de Lioncourt

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]

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

Lestat de Lioncourt

Did you like it?

This her singing?

Lestat de Lioncourt

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

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

Lestat de Lioncourt

Louis, you're soaking wet.

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

Antoinette

This is my house.

Do I look like I care?

Antoinette

Lestat.

Lestat de Lioncourt

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

I hate you.

Lestat de Lioncourt

As you should.

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Lestat de Lioncourt

Claudia, hello. I've been calling quite often. I don't know if the operator is patching me through correctly. [Claudia stares without answering]

Lestat de Lioncourt

I brought something from Louis's favorite bookshop. 'The Book of Hours.' Extremely rare, 15th century. Silver and gold on the vellum, palettes of blue and old rose.

No one here wishes to speak with you.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Well, I know he's upstairs. I can see his silhouette. Perhaps we should let him decide if he wants to see me or not. [Louis throws Lestat's coffin off the balcony and it shatters on the street behind Lestat]

How's that for an answer?

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Who made you?

Lestat de Lioncourt

His name was Magnus. He took me from my room in Paris as I kicked and screamed. He kept me for a week, locked in a room full of corpses. Some freshly killed, some bloated and black. But they all looked like me -- my coloring, my physique, my own eyes staring back at me from rotting faces. He fed on me every night and then he put me back in the tower with the lookalike corpses. I thought for sure I'd be one of them, but instead he turned me into this. No grand history of vampiric origins or physiology, no rules, no counsel. Just a sweeping hand to a pile of money and the sight of him throwing himself into a fire. And then I was alone. I thought, 'I can't drink hot blood. I can't feed on others.' I cried. I called to God. I didn't want this. But I have a capacity for enduring. That's why I don't particularly like being abandoned.

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[Crying] Let me go, Lestat.

Lestat de Lioncourt

In Louis hour of need? I'm afraid I can't allow that. He's very fragile right now. Worse than the last time you abandoned him, when you filled your head with knowledge and hitched a ride on a motorbike. [Claudia shudders] Well, you wouldn't talk of it. Louis insisted I not ask. I love our family, but the rules are, 'No secrets!' Fortunate for our family, when I put my mind to it, I can hear the thoughts of other vampires at a very great distance.

Bastard.

Lestat de Lioncourt

He thinks of you often... Bruce.

Fucking bastard!

Lestat de Lioncourt

I couldn't agree more. What he did to you was in very poor taste. Could you imagine if something like that happened to you again? Louis would never forgive himself. Back in your cage, sweetheart. We endure each other for Louis' happiness. So come home, and make him happy. Because if you try this again, Claudia, I won't snap your leg, defile your pocket and zoom off on a motorbike. I'll turn your bones to dust.

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Lestat de Lioncourt

Hmm. [Louis gasps] Bonjour, mon amour.

No.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Oui.

No.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Is it the same question?

Go away.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Or do you miss me? I miss you. Despite our recent unpleasantness still missing each other.

Claudia!

Lestat de Lioncourt

Hmm! Four years of grim wayfaring and still no sight of the benevolent vampire. So, how does denial manifest itself tonight? Sniffing German brandy?

You're not here, I'm just fսckеd in the head.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Quite fսckеd. Was she worth it?

Yes.

Lestat de Lioncourt

You say it like you believe it. [Repeatedly] I do...

Stop!

Lestat de Lioncourt

[Repeatedly] I do... Oh. Purgatory is a lovely room for music. I have a new piece, Concerto for Gashed Throat and Orchestra.

I'm sorry.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Don't say it again. You ruin it with remorse. It was a perfect betrayal. You gave me a death of distinction.

Trucks!

Lestat de Lioncourt

But in answer to your question. Yes. I'm gonna bloody kill you.

If you were alive you'd have done it already.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Hmm. [Chuckles softly] Oh, love. I'm merely waiting until you're happy. So hurry up, mon Cher.

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[In apartment with photos strung up] Only been at it a few years.

Lestat

It's one man's opinion.

Can only take 'em at night when I can't control the light I'm getting. I'm supposed to stand by a street lamp and wait for the world to pass under it? I'm a vampire!

Lestat

You're a vampire, a hunter!

I'm out there prowling for the moment. Do you know how many great shots I've taken only to find that the light was insufficient when I put it in the bath?

Lestat

Tell me, mon cher.

A whole goddamn lot! [Hands Lestat a photo who immediately starts eating it] Look at this. And this fսcking Gordon Parks fella he put in front of me? Guy spends three or four days with folks before he even picks up a camera. Friends with 'em and shit. I can't do that. I'll end up eating 'em!

Lestat

[Starts perusing photos on a table] Like this gentleman. And this one. [Picks up photo] Oh, and her.

[Clips up a photo] Tell me one thing wrong about this photo.

Lestat

[Walks up] Well, for one thing, I'm not in it.

Please!

Lestat

Mmm? Your lens is not entirely clean. And you see here in the corner? And on this night you only had eight frames of film on you. A haunting set of clouds moved in minutes after your last shot. If it lacks singularity, there is nothing wrong per se with the frame but... perhaps, going forward, when the moon is your favored source of light... a little patience? If it lacks singularity, there is nothing wrong per se with the frame but... perhaps, going forward, when the moon is your favored source of light... a little patience?

[From below in streets] What light through yonder window breaks? It is there, no? Northwest and Louis is...

Romeo!

...the sun? Barely Balthasar. The moon? [Louis goes out onto balcony] I was wondering if you wanted to take one of our walks!

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Lestat

I love you.

I’m not Lestat.

LLLouis & Lestat

Okay.

Who are you?

Who am I, Louis? I am my history I have endured? I am the job I do not want? I do not know anymore. No one has painted me in over 400 years.

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Lestat

You can't think of it as a waste of time, Louis. What's two years? I pretended to be actor for two years. And your dalliance with that manipulative gremlin? Well... what is vampire life but poor decisions, stacked next to better ones. [Sound of door opening]

[Enters room] Louis!

Lestat

Speaking of poor decisions.

Louis! Armand knows all about Lestat! How long's he known?!

The whole time.

What?!

Read our minds, first night at the theater.

But you colored it in for him, painted a picture?! Who did the poisoning, who did the throat cutting!

You can trust Armand.

What about, "Me and you"?! "You and me! Me and you!"

New Orleans, unhappy. Vampire homeland, unhappy. Paris, unhappy. Comes the coven, you're beaming like the whole world went technicolor.

What the fսck's gone on without me here?

I didn't want to wreck that for you and this whole time...

Chasing it! Chasing!

..he hasn't betrayed our trust or told our secret!

Gotta be chasing it! Except he just threatened me with it!

Doesn't sound like him.

Doesn't sound like him?! Oh, forgot! Love makes you stupid! Makes you fickle and weak and blind! Let me guess, he's your companion finally?! Well, good for fսcking you! You and him! Him and you! [Swipes down photo drying line] You and fսcking him! Picked another one over me! [Storms out room]

[Follows her passionately pointing] You picked the coven! You left me! Go sit in your choice, sister! [She slams door] Go sit in it!

Lestat

The wilderness that is our daughter. [Louis stares hard in reluctant admittance looks at photo of Armand starting to incinerate and extinguishes it and looks back at Lestat] Hmm.

Shall we hunt?

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Are you thinking of coming back to Paris? Trash piles and men who smell like cheese? Non, merci. No. We're going to wander.

Wander?

Mm-hm. [Louis chuckles]

Wander? This one? She of the straight line to the next X on the map?

This is the X, Louis. Alright. Okay, well... to finding the X.

MMadeliene

Santé! Santé! How do you like my coffin? I wake up at night and the Phams aren't trading insults, Estelle isn't smearing makeup all over herself or humming off-key. [Claudia sings off-key] No one is forcing me to listen to their gossips or solve their petty crises. It's bliss.

Lestat

Still, we didn't make it easy for you. I'm sorry for that. You alright there? I cannot read your mind. The architects of our, uh... I made you, that's just the way it is. Yes, but I feel you, Louis. I feel you too, Madeleine. I told Claudia I can feel you love her... and we should see him once more. I'm glad you did. I'm glad we did this. I can feel you too. Through him. Yes, he loves you. Okay. Okay, well, let's get the hell out of my soul! He gets enough affection. I don't need his head getting too big to get out the door. Taking a stretch. Order me another, love. There he goes. Mm-hm, there he goes! Will he get through the door with that big head? [Madeleine laughs] Why don't you want him to know how much you love him?

That's a little personal. He knows.

Madeleine

Uh-huh.

He knows. They gave him a choice. He chose.

Santiago

[Hosting cabaret performance] Ladies and gentlemen! Madames et messieurs! Offal and offalesses! And all those who flourish outside the divide, welcome. For 150 years, we here at the Theatre Des Vampires have shown you "you". [Audience laughs] Your obscene predilections, your savage desires. But today, we're shunting human affairs aside. So if you want to kill your lover or fսck your mother, it'll have to wait. [Audience laughs] Because today... we're turning our lurid spotlight on ourselves! I stand before you in broad daylight at this first ever matinee at the Theatre Des Vampires to perform for your salacious gratification...

AAudience

Yes!

Santiago

...us! Are you ready, you filthy animals?

AAudience

[Shouts] Yes! Yes? [Audience cheers and applauds]

Santiago

Yes? [Audience cheers] The jury may be seated!

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BJBaby Jenks

Yeah, you kill some wolves and fall in love. Get the gift, fall in love. Go to ground, get dug up, and fall in love. You're like some wet clothes in a coin op dryer, just 265 years, round and round. Why you so sad? Thousands of fans loving you...

Lestat de Lioncourt

I want millions.

BJBaby Jenks

And that'll top off that heart of yours?

Lestat de Lioncourt

Billions.

BJBaby Jenks

Then why you always gotta make it so hard for someone to give it to you?

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