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Interview with the Vampire (film) Quotes

Interview with the Vampire (film) is a television program that was first aired in 1970 . Interview with the Vampire ended its run in 1970.

It features David Geffen as producer, Elliot Goldenthal in charge of musical score, and Philippe Rousselot as head of cinematography.

Interview with the Vampire (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Interview with the Vampire (film) is 122 minutes long. Interview with the Vampire (film) is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

The cast includes: Tom Cruise as Lestat, Antonio Banderas as Armand, Kirsten Dunst as Claudia, Brad Pitt as Louis, Christian Slater as Daniel Molloy, Stephen Rea as Santiago, Thandie Newton as Yvette, Domiziana Giordano as Madeleine, and Indra Ové as New Orleans Whore.

Interview with the Vampire (film) Quotes

Tom Cruise as Lestat

  • (Tom Cruise) "I am afraid, madam, my days are sacrosanct."
  • (Tom Cruise) "For you, Louis. You can pretend it's wine."
  • (Tom Cruise) "We are predators, whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment."
  • (Tom Cruise) "It's your coffin, my love. Enjoy it. Most of us never get to know what it feels like."
  • (Brad Pitt) "Why do you do this?"
  • (Tom Cruise) "I like to do it. I enjoy it. Take your aesthete's taste to purer things, kill them swiftly, if you will, but do it. For do not doubt: you are a killer, Louis."
  • (Tom Cruise) "All I need to find you, Louis, is follow the corpses of rats."
  • (Tom Cruise) "No one could resist me, not even you, Louis."
  • (Brad Pitt) "I tried."
  • (Tom Cruise) "And the more you tried, the more I wanted you."
  • (Tom Cruise) "Oh Louis, Louis. Still whining, Louis. Have you heard enough? I've had to listen to that for centuries."
  • (Tom Cruise) "The trick is not to think about it. See that one there? Widow St. Clair. She had the gorgeous young fop murder her husband."
  • (Brad Pitt) "How do you know?"
  • (Tom Cruise) "Read her thoughts."
  • (Tom Cruise) "Read her thoughts."
  • (Brad Pitt) "I can't."
  • (Tom Cruise) "The dark gift is different for each of us. But one thing is true for us all, we grow stronger as we go along. Just take my word for it. She blamed a slave for his murder. Imagine what they did to him. Evildoers are easier, and they taste better."
  • (Tom Cruise) "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."
  • (Tom Cruise) "Claudia. You've been a very, very naughty little girl."
  • (Tom Cruise) "Don't be afraid -- I'm going to give you the choice I never had."
  • (Tom Cruise) "Whining coward of a vampire that prowls the night killing rats and poodles; you could have finished us both."
  • (Brad Pitt) "You've condemned me to Hell."
  • (Tom Cruise) "I don't know any Hell."
  • (Tom Cruise) "Now that is pure Creole. Trust Claudia to have found her. What, don't you want her?"
  • (Kirsten Dunst) "I want to be her."
  • (Tom Cruise) "Perfect. Just perfect. Just burn the place. Burn everything we own. Have us sleeping in the field like cattle."
  • (Brad Pitt) "You thought you could have it all --"
  • (Tom Cruise) "Oh, shut up, Louis. Mon Dieu. Come here."
  • (Tom Cruise) "I assume I need no introduction."
  • (Tom Cruise) "Don't be afraid. I'm going to give you the choice I never had."
  • (Tom Cruise) "Lord, what I wouldn't give for a drop of good old-fashioned Creole blood."
  • (Brad Pitt) "Yankees are not to your taste?"
  • (Tom Cruise) "Their democratic flavor doesn't suit my palate, Louis."
  • (Tom Cruise) "Mon dieu, what melancholy nonsense. I swear you grow more like Louis each day. Soon you'll be eating rats."
  • (Kirsten Dunst) "Rats? When did you eat rats, Louis?"
  • (Brad Pitt) "It was a long, long time ago. Before you were born, and I don't recommend them."
  • (Tom Cruise) "Enough. Enough. Stop."
  • (Kirsten Dunst) "I want some more."
  • (Tom Cruise) "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."
  • (Tom Cruise) "Listen, Louis. There's life in these old hands still. Not quite Furioso. Moderato? Cantabile, perhaps."
  • (Kirsten Dunst) "How can it be?"
  • (Tom Cruise) "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. Claudia -- You've been a very, very, naughty little girl."
  • (Tom Cruise) "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."
  • (Tom Cruise) "Claudia. Claudia. Now who are we going to get to finish your dress? These impracticalities, cherie. Remember: never in the home."
  • (Tom Cruise) "Do we forgive each other then?"
  • (Tom Cruise) "There's nothing in the world now that doesn't hold some sort of --"
  • (Brad Pitt) "Fascination."
  • (Tom Cruise) "Yes. I'm bored of this prattle."
  • (Brad Pitt) "But if we can live without taking human life? It's possible."
  • (Tom Cruise) "Anything's possible. Just try it for a week. Come to New Orleans. Let me show you some real sport."
  • (Tom Cruise) "I'm going to give you the choice I never had."
  • (Tom Cruise) "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."
  • (Tom Cruise) "Your body's dying. Pay no attention, it happens to us all."
  • (Tom Cruise) "You are a vampire who never knew what life was until it ran out in a big gush over your lips."
  • (Tom Cruise) "Have you said your good-byes to the light?"
  • (Tom Cruise) "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?"
  • (Tom Cruise) "Do you still want death or is this enough?"
  • (Brad Pitt) "Enough."
  • (Tom Cruise) "There's still life in the old lady yet."
  • (Tom Cruise) "Come to New Orleans, then. The Paris Opera's in town. We can try some French cuisine."
  • (Brad Pitt) "Forgive me if I have a lingering respect for mortal life."
  • (Tom Cruise) "Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt."
  • (Tom Cruise) "Claudia -- Claudia. Claudia. What have you done?"
  • (Kirsten Dunst) "What you told me to do."
  • (Brad Pitt) "Leave a corpse here to rot?"
  • (Kirsten Dunst) "I wanted her. I wanted to be her."
  • (Tom Cruise) "Claudia, what have we told you?"
  • (Kirsten Dunst) "Never in the house."

Brad Pitt as Louis

  • (Brad Pitt) "In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home. It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard. I walked the streets, savoring that long lost perfume."
  • (Brad Pitt) "A little child she was, but also a fierce killer, now capable of the ruthless pursuit of blood with all a child's demanding."
  • (Brad Pitt) "Lestat killed two, sometimes three a night. A fresh young girl, that was his favorite for the first of the evening. For seconds, he preferred a gilded beautiful youth. But the snob in him loved to hunt in society, and the blood of the aristocrat thrilled him best of all."
  • (Brad Pitt) "Claudia, don't."
  • (Kirsten Dunst) "Why not? Can't I change, like everybody else?"
  • (Brad Pitt) "For 30 years I had avoided that place. Yet I found my way back there with hardly an upward glance."
  • (Brad Pitt) "Vampires pretending to be humans, pretending to be vampires."
  • (Kirsten Dunst) "How avant-garde."
  • (Brad Pitt) "They know about us. They watch us dine on empty plates and drink from empty glasses."
  • (Brad Pitt) "Blood, I was to find, was a necessity as well. I woke the next evening with a hunger I had never felt."
  • (Brad Pitt) "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?"
  • (Brad Pitt) "Then out of curiosity, boredom, who knows what, I left the old world and came back to my America. And there, a mechanical wonder allowed me to see the sun rise for the first time in two hundred years. And what sunrises, seen as the human eye could never see them: silver at first, then, as the years progressed, in tones of purple, red, and my long lost blue."
  • (Brad Pitt) "We kept to ourselves, pondering the mystery of each other."
  • (Brad Pitt) "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 sunrise 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."
  • (Brad Pitt) "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."
  • (Brad Pitt) "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, and she and the infant had been buried less than half a year. I would have 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 it."
  • (Brad Pitt) "You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die."
  • (Kirsten Dunst) "And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up."
  • (Brad Pitt) "Though the fire seemed to spread through the quarter, I stood on that deck, fearful he would come out again from the very river, like some monster, to destroy us both. And all the while, I thought, 'Lestat, you deserve your vengeance. You gave me the dark gift, and I delivered you into the hands of death for the second time.'"
  • (Brad Pitt) "We searched village after village, country after country. And always we found nothing. I began to believe we were the only ones. There was a strange comfort in that thought. For what could the damned really have to say to the damned?"
  • (Brad Pitt) "Thirty years had passed, yet her body remained that of an eternal child. Her eyes alone told the story of her age, staring out from under her doll-like curls, with a questioning that will one day need an answer."
  • (Brad Pitt) "But the world was a tomb to me, a graveyard of broken statues, and each of those statues resembled her face."
  • (Brad Pitt) "You lack the courage of your convictions, sir. Do it."

Kirsten Dunst as Claudia

  • (Kirsten Dunst) "You -- fed on me."
  • (Brad Pitt) "Yes. And he found me with you, and he cut his wrist and fed you from it, and you were a vampire and have been every night thereafter."
  • (Kirsten Dunst) "You both did it."
  • (Brad Pitt) "I took your life -- He gave you another one."
  • (Kirsten Dunst) "And here it is, and I hate you both."
  • (Kirsten Dunst) "Louis, what's happening to her?"
  • (Brad Pitt) "She is dying. It happened to you, too, but you were too young to remember."
  • (Kirsten Dunst) "Do you know what his soul said to me, without saying a word? 'Let him go', he said. 'Let him go'."
  • (Kirsten Dunst) "Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest."
  • (Kirsten Dunst) "I came to make peace with you, even though you are the father of lies."
  • (Kirsten Dunst) "Who will take care of me, my love, my dark angel, when you are gone?"
  • (Kirsten Dunst) "Where's mama?"
  • (Tom Cruise) "Mama -- mama has gone to heaven, Chérie, like that sweet lady right there. They all go to heaven."
  • (Brad Pitt) "All but us."
  • (Tom Cruise) "Shh. Do you want to frighten our little daughter?"
  • (Kirsten Dunst) "I'm not your daughter."
  • (Tom Cruise) "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."
  • (Kirsten Dunst) "Louis."
  • (Brad Pitt) "You fiend."
  • (Tom Cruise) "One happy family."
  • (Kirsten Dunst) "It's time we were on our way. I'm hungry, and the city awaits."
  • (Kirsten Dunst) "I promise I'll get rid of the bodies."

Christian Slater as Daniel Molloy

  • (Christian Slater) "So a vampire can cry."
  • (Brad Pitt) "Once, maybe twice in his own eternity. Maybe it was to quench those tears forever that I took such revenge on them."
  • (Christian Slater) "What about crucifixes?"
  • (Brad Pitt) "Crucifixes?"
  • (Christian Slater) "Yes, can you look at them?"
  • (Brad Pitt) "Actually I am quite fond of looking at crucifixes."
  • (Christian Slater) "What about the old stake through the heart?"
  • (Brad Pitt) "Nonsense"
  • (Christian Slater) "Coffins? What about coffins?"
  • (Brad Pitt) "Coffins. Coffins, I'm afraid, are a necessity."
  • (Christian Slater) "What did you see?"
  • (Brad Pitt) "No words can describe it. May as well ask Heaven what it sees; no human can know."
  • (Christian Slater) "So, what do you do?"
  • (Brad Pitt) "I'm a vampire."
  • (Christian Slater) "Hmm. That's something I've never heard before. You mean this literally, I take it?"
  • (Brad Pitt) "Absolutely. I was waiting for you in that alleyway: watching you watching me. And then you began to speak."
  • (Christian Slater) "What a lucky break for me."
  • (Brad Pitt) "Perhaps lucky for the both of us."
  • (Christian Slater) "You said you were waiting for me. What were you going to do? Kill me, drink my blood, all that stuff?"
  • (Brad Pitt) "Yes, but you needn't be concerned with that now."
  • (Christian Slater) "You really believe this, don't you, that you're a vampire?"
  • (Brad Pitt) "We can't begin this way. Let me turn on the light."
  • (Christian Slater) "I thought vampires didn't like the light."
  • (Brad Pitt) "We love it. I only wanted to prepare you."
  • (Christian Slater) "So there are no vampires in Transylvania? No Count Dracula?"
  • (Brad Pitt) "Fictions, my friend. The vulgar fictions of a demented Irishman."

Stephen Rea as Santiago

  • (Stephen Rea) "Suppose death had a heart to love and to release you, to whom would he turn this passion? Would you chose a person from the crowd there? A person to suffer as you suffer?"
  • (Stephen Rea) "Do you know what it means to be loved by Death? To become our bride?"
  • (Stephen Rea) "But hark, methinks a mortal doth approach."

Thandie Newton as Yvette

  • (Thandie Newton) "Ummm -- Monsieur Louis. You don't want any supper,no?"
  • (Brad Pitt) "No, ma chère."
  • (Thandie Newton) "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 quarter? Everywhere there is death. Are you still our master at all?"
  • (Brad Pitt) "That will be all, Yvette."
  • (Thandie Newton) "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."
  • (Brad Pitt) "I'm frightened of myself."
  • (Brad Pitt) "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?"
  • (Brad Pitt) "Run, flee, save yourselves."

Antonio Banderas as Armand

  • (Antonio Banderas) "I know nothing of God, or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that will damn or save my soul. And as far as I know, after four hundred years, I am the oldest living vampire in the world."
  • (Antonio Banderas) "You are beautiful, my friend. Lestat must have wept when he made you."
  • (Brad Pitt) "Lestat? You knew Lestat?"
  • (Antonio Banderas) "Knew him well enough not to mourn his passing"

Indra Ové as New Orleans Whore

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