Interview with the Vampire
Sundays 9:00 PM on AMCInterview with the Vampire Season 1 Quotes
Louis: Do you ever think that we, that's to say, our kind, were put on Earth for a larger purpose?
Lestat: I put you on this Earth. Your purpose is to enjoy yourself.
Fenwick: What are you?
Louis: I'm a vampire.
Take a black man in America. Make him a vampire. Fuck with that vampire. And see what comes of it.
Molloy
Lestat: I heard your hearts dancing!
Louis: You watched the whole thing like some creeper.
Lestat: And then I watched you pull over and drain a dog. And run down an alleyway for two more rats. This is not a life!
Louis: That's cause you took my life! I got nothing. I lost everything. I lost my brother. I lost my family. About to lose the last fucking thing I care about.
What did I tell y'all? There he is. There he is.
Florence
Louis: I can smell her on you.
Lestat: From time to time, I like a little variety. There, I said it.
Louis: I don't want to kill people anymore. There it is.
Lestat: A fish that doesn't swim. A bird refusing flight. You're going to struggle. I have faith in the feline population of New Orleans.
Hunting is an art. You have the power to subdue anyone you want, but sometimes restraint is your most powerful weapon.
Lestat [to Louis]
Molloy: What does this taste like to you?
Louis: Like almost all human food. Like paste. Chalk. Like soap.
There is one thing about being a vampire that I must fear above all else, and that is loneliness. You can't imagine the emptiness. The void. Stretching out for decades at a time. You take this feeling away from me, Louis. We must stay together. And take precaution. And never part.
Lestat
Louis: I no longer kill. My last victim was in the year 2000.
Molloy: Some Y2K disagreement?
Louis: I want our readers to understand that.
Louis: Vampires are killers. Apex predators whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment. The ability to see a human life in its entirety. Not with any markest sorrow, but with the thrilling satisfaction of being the end of that life. Having a hand in the divine plan.
Molloy: Don't expect every reader to swallow that one.
Louis: That's the purpose. Our book must be a warning, as much as anything.
