Quotes

Yvette: [to Louis] Are you not hungry sir?
Lestat: Aux contraire moncher, he could eat the whole colony.
[starts to laugh]
Louis: [as Yvette starts to pick up Louis's plate he grabbs her arm and looks at the veins in her neck] I’ll finish it in a minute now leave us.

Yvette: Ummm… Monsieur Louis. You don’t want any supper no?
Louis: No moncher.
Yvette: We’re worried about you, master. Why is it that you don’t go riding in the field? And how long since you’ve been to the slave cot? Everywhere there is death. Are you still our master at all?
Louis: That will be all, Yvette!
Yvette: I will not go unless you listen to me! You must, you must send away this friend of yours. The slaves they are all frightened of him… and they are frightened of you!
[touches Louis's hand]
Louis: I’m frightened of myself.
[Indulges in close contact with Yvette. Then begins to bit her wrist. She starts to scream out. For a moment he is to caught up in bitting her. She cries out lounder and he snapes into reality. He puts his hand over her mouth, wrestles her to the floor and kills her]
Louis: [Louis walks outside carrying Yvette's lifeless body. He speaks to the slaves who have come to see what all the screaming was about] Hear me now! This place is cursed, damned, and yes your master is the devil! Get out while you can! You are all free men! You hear me?
[Louis gives Yvette to a nearby slave and takes hold of a tourch]
Louis: Run, flee, save yourselves!
[waves tourch wildly at slaves to make them leave and then goes inside to set house on fire]

Lestat: No one could resist me, not even you, Louis.
Louis: I tried.
Lestat: [smiling] And the more you tried, the more I wanted you.

Lestat: Your body’s dying. Pay no attention, It happens to us all.

Lestat: You are a vampire who never knew what life was until it ran out in a big gush over your lips.

Louis: Where are we?
Lestat: Where do you think, my idiot friend? We’re in a nice, filthy cemetery. Does this make you happy? Is this fitting, proper enough?
Louis: We belong in hell.
Lestat: And what if there is no hell, or they don’t want us there? Ever think of that?
Louis: But there was a hell, and no matter where we moved to, I was in it.

Whore: It’s a coffin.
Lestat: So it is. You must be dead.

Lestat: Mon dieu, what melancholy nonsense. I swear you grow more like Louis each day. Soon you’ll be eating rats!
Claudia: Rats? When did you eat rats Louis?
Louis: It was a long, long time ago. Before you were born, and I don’t recommend them.

Lestat: 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: LOUIS! Put me in my coffin!
Claudia: I’ll put you in your coffin!

Lestat: Absinthe, absinthe… you’ve given them absinthe?
Claudia: No. Laudanum.
Lestat: Laudanum.
Claudia: Yes. It killed them, unfortunately, but it keeps the blood warm.
Lestat: You? You let me drink… dead blood? You… let me drink… dead blood?
Claudia: One lesson you taught me: never drink from the dead!
Lestat: Louis… Louis! Put me in my coffin. Put me in my coffin!
Claudia: I’ll put you in your coffin!
[slashes Lestat's throat with a long knife]

Lestat: Evildoers are easier, and they taste better.

Claudia: Which one of you did it? One of you did it! Which on of you made me the way I am?
Lestat: What you are? A vampire gone insane that pollutes its own bed?
Claudia: And if I cut my hair again?
Lestat: It will grow back again.
Claudia: But it wasn’t always so. I had a mother once, and Louis, he had a wife. He was mortal the same as she and so was I.
Louis: Claudia!
Claudia: You made us what we are, didn’t you?
Lestat: Stop her, Louis.
Claudia: Did you do it to me?
[slashes Lestat's face, and it heals immediately]
Claudia: How did you do it?
Lestat: Why should I tell you? It’s in my power.
Claudia: Why yours alone? Tell me how it was done.
Lestat: Be glad I made you what you are. You’d be dead now if I hadn’t, just like that damned corpse. Now, get rid of it!
Claudia: You get rid of it.

Lestat: Perfect! Just perfect! Just burn the place! Burn everything we own! Have us sleeping in the field like cattle!
Louis: You thought you could have it all…
Lestat: Oh, shut up,Louis! Mon Dieu! Come here.

Lestat: I’m going to give you the choice I never had.

Lestat: Do we forgive each other then?

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

Lestat: We are predators, Whose all seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.

Lestat: Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt.

Lestat: It’s your coffin, my love. Enjoy it. Most of us never get to know what it feels like.
Louis: Why do you do this?
Lestat: I like to do it. I enjoy it. Take your aesthete’s; taste purer things; kill them swiftly, if you will, but do it. For do not doubt: you are a killer, Louis.

Lestat: Oh Louis, Louis. Still whining Louis. Have you heard enough? I’ve had to listen to that for centuries.

Lestat: I am afraid, madam, my days are sacrosanct.

Lestat: Lord, what I wouldn’t give for a drop of good old-fashioned Creole blood.
Louis: Yankees are not to your taste?
Lestat: Their democratic flavor doesn’t suit my palate, Louis.

[to Malloy]
Lestat: I assume I need no introduction.

Lestat: Claudia, you have been a very, very naughty little girl.

Lestat: Listen Louie. There’s life in these old hands still. Not quite Furioso. Moderato? Cantabile, perhaps.
Claudia: How can it be?
Lestat: Bless the alligator. His blood helped. Then on the diet of the blood of snakes, toads, and all the putrid life of the Mississippi, slowly, Lestat became something like himself again. Claudia… You’ve been a very, very, naughty little girl.

[watching a nude prostitute]
Lestat: Now that is pure Creole. Trust Claudia to have found her. What, don’t you want her?
Claudia: I want to be her.

Lestat: Whining coward of a vampire that prowls the night killing rats and poodles; you could have finished us both.
Louis: You’ve condemned me to Hell.
Lestat: I don’t know any Hell.

Lestat: [dancing around with the corpse of Claudia's mother] There’s still life in the old lady yet.

Lestat: Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither.

Lestat: Have you said your good-byes to the light?
[bites Louis]
Lestat: I’ve drained you to the point of death. If I leave you here, you die. Or you can be young always, my friend, as we are now, but you must tell me: will you come or no?

Claudia: Where’s mama?
Lestat: Mama… mama has gone to heaven, Chérie, like that sweet lady right there. They all go to heaven.
Louis: All but us.
Lestat: Shh. Do you want to frighten our little daughter?
Claudia: I’m not your daughter.
Lestat: Oh, yes, you are. You’re mine and Louis’ daughter now. You see, Louis was going to leave us, he was going to go away, but now he’s not. Now, he’s going to stay and make you happy.
Claudia: Louis.
Louis: You fiend.
Lestat: One happy family.

Lestat: You-you let me drink *dead blood*?

Lestat: It’s so easy you almost feel sorry for them. You’ll get used to killing. Just forget about that mortal coil. You’ll become accustomed to it, all too quickly.

Lestat: Claudia… Claudia. Claudia! What have you done?
Claudia: What you told me to do!
Louis: Leave a corpse here to rot?
Claudia: I wanted her. I wanted to be her!

Lestat: [after Claudia kills the piano teacher] Claudia, what have we told you?
Claudia: Never in the house.

Lestat: [to Louis] Feed on what you will. Rats, chickens, poodles, I’ll leave you to it and watch you come around. But just remember, life without me would be even more unbearable.
[laughs]

Lestat: Let’s pretend it’s wine!

Lestat: There’s nothing in the world now that doesn’t hold some sort of…
Louis: Fascination.
Lestat: Yes. I’m bored of this crap.
Louis: But if we can live without taking human life? It’s possible.
Lestat: Anything’s possible. Just try it for a week. Come to New Orleans. Let me show you some new sport.