Quotes

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Lestat: [Angrily] You whining coward of a vampire who prowls the night feeding on... rats and poodles! You could have finished us both! Louis: [Baring fangs] You condemned me to Hell! Lestat: I don't know any hell.

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Lestat: You should consider yourself lucky. In Paris, a vampire must be clever for many reasons. Louis: Paris? Lestat: Here, all one needs is a pair of fangs. Heh. Louis: You came from Paris? Lestat: [Bored] As did the one who made me. Louis: Tell me about him. You must've learned something from him. Lestat: I learned absolutely nothing. I wasn't given a choice, remember? Louis: But you must know something about the meaning of it all- Lestat: [Yelling] Why?! [Angrily bangs fist on table] Why should I know these things? Do you know them? [Pauses; listens to drumming from outside] That noise. It's driving me mad; that noise! We've been in the country for weeks with nothing but that noise! Louis: Yes, they know about us. They watch us dine on empty plates and drink from empty glasses. Lestat: [Calmly] Come... to New Orleans, then. The Paris Opera is in town; we can try some French cui- cuisine. Louis: Forgive me if I have a lingering respect for life. [Sighs] Lestat: You'll soon run out o

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Lestat: [Crashes through window of ablaze plantation master house] Perfect! Perfect! Just burn the place! Burn everything we own! Have us living out in a field, like cattle! Louis: [Sitting on floor leaning against wall] You thought you could have it all... Lestat: Oh, shut up, Louis! [Grabs Louis by shirt and forces him up] Come on! [Slaves cheer and dance at sight of ablaze plantation master house]

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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: [Narrating] But there was a Hell. And no matter where we moved to, I was in it. We rented rooms on the waterfront of New Orleans.

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Prostitute 1: [Lestat is pinning down a prostitute on a couch with her legs around him] Your skin is icy. Lestat: [Turning his attention to Prostitute 2] Your friend has no head for wine. Prostitute 2: Don't worry. I can warm that cold skin of yours better than she can. Lestat: Do you think so? Prostitute 2: Why... you're warm now! But the price is high. Lestat: Your pretty friend, I exhausted her. [Caressing prostitute's cheek] Soft. So soft. I can see you lying on a bed of satin. Prostitute 2: Such things you say. Lestat: Do you know what manner of bed? Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once I've put out thy light... I cannot... give it vital breath again. Its needs must wither. [Bites prostitute's wrist, pours it out in glass and holds out the glass to Louis] For you, Louis. You can pretend it's wine. Louis: She's not dead! Lestat: You're in love with your mortal nature. You resist what can bring you peace. Louis: You call this peace?! Lestat: We're predat

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Lestat: [Irritated] Mon dieu, more melancholy nonsense. I swear, you grow more like Louis every day. Soon you'll be eating rats! Louis: It was a long time ago, before you were born. And I don't recommend them.

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Daniel Molloy: So a vampire can cry. Louis: Once, maybe twice, in his own eternity. Maybe it was to quench those tears forever that I took such revenge on them.

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Lestat: What is it now? You irritate me. Your very presence... irritates me! Claudia: Does it? Lestat: I found someone who'll be a vampire better than you both! Claudia: Is that supposed to frighten me? Lestat: You're spoiled, because you're an only child. You need a brother. Or I do. I'm weary of you both. Claudia: I suppose we could people the world with vampires... the three of us. Lestat: Oh, not you... my little Claudia. Claudia: You're a liar. But you upset my plans. Lestat: What plans? Claudia: I came to make peace with you. Even though you're the father of lies... I want things to be as they were. Lestat: Stop pestering me then. Claudia: I must do more than that. I've brought a present for you. Lestat: Then I hope it's... a beautiful woman... with endowments you'll never possess. Claudia: Why do you say such things? You haven't fed enough. I can tell by your color. Come and see. Don't be angry with me. When I saw them, I knew they were for you. [Brings Lestat to couch with the

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Armand: You made me see their failings, Louis. They were... doomed. Stuck in their decadent time. And they had forgotten the first lesson: that we must be powerful, beautiful, and without regret. Louis: And you can teach me this? Armand: Yes. Louis: To be without regret? Armand: Yes. Louis: Then what a pair we could make... [Armand chuckles] ...but what if it's a lesson I don't care to learn? Armand: What do you mean? Louis: What if all I have is my suffering, my regret? Armand: Don't you want to lose it? Louis: So you can have that too? The heart that mourns her? Her, that you burnt to a cinder? Armand: Louis, I swear I didn't— Louis: Ah, but I know you did. I know. You, who regrets nothing. You, who feels nothing. And if that's all I have left to learn, I can do that on my own. [Starts walking away] Armand: Louis. Louis: Yes? Armand: I will die. Louis: No, you are dead, and you want me to quicken you once more. And as much as your invitation might appeal to me, I must regretfully dec

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Santiago: Two lovers... wandering down their violet way... whose passionate embraces, each to each... permit no meditations on decay... until they find themselves... within my reach! Louis: Vampires who pretend to be humans pretending to be vampires. Claudia: How avant-garde. Santiago: The monk whose soul with Heaven doth commune... and spends his days... in pious contemplation... finds he will meet his Maker all too soon. For all his prayers gets no remuneration. The lesson endeth here... and it is this: Each one of you, my clammy hands must touch. Each one must bend his forehead to my kiss. But, hark! Methinks a mortal doth approach! [Santiago minions bring forth mortal woman prey] What have we here? What beauty by my side? A rose in bloom, a shrinking violet? Perhaps she has a mind to be my bride. Perhaps my lesson has not ended yet! Mortal woman prey: I don't want to die! Santiago: But death we are and have always been. Mortal woman prey: Someone help me! Please! [Santiago minions

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Armand: [In his quarters with Louis and Claudia] Two vampires... from the New World... come to guide us into the new era... as all we love slowly rots... and fades away. Louis: Are you the leader of this group? Armand: If there were a leader... I would be the one. Louis: So you have the answers? Armand: So you have questions? Louis: What are we? Armand: Nothing... if not vampires. Louis: Who made us what we are? Armand: Surely you know the one who made you? Louis: Yes, but the one who made him? The source... of all this... evil. Armand: I understand. I saw you in the theater. Your suffering... your sympathy for that girl. You die... when you kill. You feel you deserve to die and you stint on nothing. Louis: But does that make you evil? Armand: Since you comprehend what you call goodness, doesn't that make you... good? Louis: Then there is nothing? Armand: Perhaps. But perhaps... this... is the only real evil left. Louis: Then God does not exist? Armand: I know nothing of God, or the De