Interview with the Vampire (film)

"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."

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

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

"And here it is. And I hate you both!"

"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."

"I'll put you in your coffin!"

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

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

"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."

"Locked together in hatred. But I can't hate you, Louis. [Puts arms around him] 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."

"Don't be afraid. I'm going to give you the choice I never had."

"Have you said your goodbyes to the light?"

"Your body's dying. Pay no attention. It happens to us all."

"Evildoers are easier... and they taste better."

"[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."

"All I need to find you, Louis, is to follow the corpses of rats."

"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 assume I need no introduction."

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

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

"[Walking through sewers] 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. [Louis agrees] 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... [Louis asks where] You need... company... more congenial than mine. Remember how you wanted her? The taste of her? Don't worry. Your conscience is clear."

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

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

"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 David Copperfield? '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?... 1791 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."

"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."

"Forgive me if I have a lingering respect for life."

"[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] Hear me now! This place is cursed! Damned! And, yes, your master is the devil! Get out while you can! You're all free! Do you hear me?! [Hands body of Yvette to slaves] Run! Run! [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]"

"[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."

"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?"

"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."

"[From trailer] His name is Lestat. He chose one man. He gave him infinite power, eternal life and a daughter who would be forever young. And then he took the light of day."

"[From TV spot] They live for the pleasure, the passion, the thrill. And they will live forever."

"Drink from me and live forever."

"Tom Cruise - Lestat de Lioncourt"

"Brad Pitt - Louis de Pointe du Lac"

"Christian Slater - Daniel Molloy"

"Kirsten Dunst - Claudia"

"Antonio Banderas - Armand"

"Stephen Rea - Santiago"

"Domiziana Giordano - Madeleine"

"Thandie Newton - Yvette"

"George Kelly - Dollmaker"

"Marcel Iureş - Paris Vampire"

"Sara Stockbridge - Estelle"

"Indra Ové - New Orleans Whore"