Interview with the Vampire (1994) - Quotes

Louis de Pointe du Lac: Whatever happened to Lestat, I do not know. I go on, night after night. I feed on those who cross my path. But all my passion went with her golden hair. I'm a spirit of preternatural flesh. Detached. Unchangeable. Empty.

Louis de Pointe du Lac: How do we seem to you? Do you find us beautiful, magical? Our white skin, our fierce eyes? "Drink," you ask me. Do you have any idea of the thing you will become?

Louis de Pointe du Lac: [''Referring to feeding on Claudia''] Her blood coursed through my veins sweeter than life itself. And, as it did, Lestat's words made sense to me. I knew peace only when I killed. When I heard her heart in that rhythm, I knew only what peace could be.

Louis de Pointe du Lac: [''Walks out front door of plantation master house to meet lynching intentioned mob of torch wielding slaves while carrying lifeless body of house servant Yvette''; [w:demonic possession|your master is the devil!; ''Hands body of Yvette to slaves''; ''Grabs a torch, swipes it at slaves to scare them off only to have them follow him to door and he proceeds set fire to the plantation master house''] Hear me now! This place is cursed! Damned! And, yes, ] Get out while you can! You're all free! Do you hear me?! Run! Run!

Louis de Pointe du Lac: Forgive me if I have a lingering respect for life.

Louis de Pointe du Lac: That morning I was not yet a vampire, and I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely, and yet I can't recall any before it. I watched the whole magnificence of the dawn for the last time as if it were the first. And then I said farewell to sunlight, and set out to become what I became.

Louis de Pointe du Lac: [[David Copperfield (novel)|David Copperfield; [w:1791|1791] I'm flesh and blood, but not human. I haven't been human for 200 years. Please, how shall I put you at ease? Shall we begin like ]? I am born... I grew up. Or shall we begin when I was born to darkness, as I call it? That's really where we should start, don't you think?... ] was the year it happened. I was 24. Younger than you are now. But times were different then. I was a man at that age. The master of a large plantation, just south of New Orleans. I had lost my wife in childbirth. She and the infant had been buried less than half a year. I would've been happy to join them. I couldn't bear the pain of their loss. I longed to be released from it. I wanted to lose it all: my wealth, my estate, my sanity....Most of all, I longed for death. I know that now. I invited it. A release from the pain of living. My invitation was open to anyone. To the whore at my side. To the pimp that followed. But it was a vampire that accepted.

Lestat de Lioncourt: [''Playing piano after returning from swamp from being left after killed''; ''Claudia inquires how''; [w:Mississippi River|the Mississippi] Listen, Louis... there's life... in these old hands still. Not quite furioso. Moderato... cantabile, perhaps. Ask the alligator. His blood helped. Then, on a diet of the blood of snakes... toads... and all the putrid life... of ]... slowly... Lestat became something... like himself again. You've been... a very... very... naughty little girl.

Lestat de Lioncourt: [''Walks in when Claudia has finished feeding off her tailoress and drops her on the ground''; ''Slaps Claudia's wrist''] Claudia. Claudia! Now... who will we get to finish your dress?! You need to practice daily! Never feed in our home!

Lestat de Lioncourt: [''Walking through sewers''; ''Louis agrees''; ''Louis asks where''] All I need to find you, Louis, is follow the corpses of rats. Pain is terrible for you. You feel it like no other creature, because you're a vampire. You don't want it to go on. Then do what it is in your nature to do... and you will feel as you felt with that child in your arms. Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately... and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are. None so like Him... as ourselves. I have a gift for you... You need... company... more congenial than mine. Remember how you wanted her? The taste of her? Don't worry. Your conscience is clear.

Lestat de Lioncourt: [''Appears in doorway of Louis comforting Claudia, found in house with the body of her plague victim mother, laughing''; ''Picks up the body of Claudia's mother and dances with it energetically across room [[w:Italian language|singing in Italian; ''Drops body of Claudia's mother on floor, walks out door calling to Louis''] My philosopher, my martyr. "Never take a human life". Oh, yes. This calls for a celebration. ] and Louis runs out out door] There's still life in the old lady yet! Come back! You are what you are! Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt.

Lestat de Lioncourt: [''To Daniel Molloy''] Oh, Louis, Louis. Still whining, Louis. Have you heard enough? I've had to listen to that for centuries!

Lestat de Lioncourt: I assume I need no introduction.

Lestat de Lioncourt: Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately, and so shall we, for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him... as ourselves.

Lestat de Lioncourt: All I need to find you, Louis, is to follow the corpses of rats.

Lestat de Lioncourt: [''After stuffing a prostitute into a coffin and shutting it''] It's your coffin, my love. Enjoy it. Most of us never get to know what it feels like.

Lestat de Lioncourt: Evildoers are easier... and they taste better.

Lestat de Lioncourt: Your body's dying. Pay no attention. It happens to us all.

Lestat de Lioncourt: Have you said your goodbyes to the light?

Lestat de Lioncourt: Don't be afraid. I'm going to give you the choice I never had.

Claudia: [''Puts arms around him''] Locked together in hatred. But I can't hate you, Louis. Louis, my love. I was mortal till you... gave me your immortal kiss. You became my mother and my father. And so I'm yours forever. But now it's time to end it, Louis. Now it's time to leave him. He will never let us go.

Claudia: Snatching me from my mother's hands, like two monsters in a fairytale. And now you weep! I haven't tears enough for what you've done to me.

Claudia: Your evil is that you cannot be evil. And I shall suffer for it no longer!

Claudia: You have found your new companion, Louis! You will make me mine!

Claudia: I'll put you in your coffin!

Claudia: Locked together in hatred. But I can't hate you, Louis. Louis, my love, I was mortal until you gave me your immortal kiss. You became my mother and my father, and so I'm yours forever. But now it's time to end it, Louis. Now it's time to leave him.

Claudia: And here it is. And I hate you both!

Claudia: Which one of you did it?! One of you did it! Which one of you made me the way I am?!

Armand: The world changes, we do not; therein lies the irony that finally kills us.

Armand: I know nothing of God... or the Devil. I have never seen a vision, nor learned a secret, that would damn or save my soul. And as far as I know, after four hundred years, I am the oldest living vampire in the world.