Interview with the Vampire (TV Series)

Like Angels Put in Hell by God (2022)

Sam Reid: Lestat de Lioncourt

Quotes 

• Lestat de Lioncourt : Oh, it's you who lost, Claudia, for the many hundredth time. I admire your steadfast pursuit of a game you clearly have no acumen for.

  Claudia : My massa taught me how to play, but only enough to occupy his time.

• Lestat de Lioncourt : I played three games at once in the Jardin du Luxembourg, and one of my opponents was Johannes Zukertort,

• Lestat de Lioncourt : She's an affected, self-absorbed, nasty little creature who's fooled herself into thinking she's smarter than she is and she is poisoning Louis against me.

  Antoinette : You don't need her and you don't need him. They don't appreciate you like I do.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : I have given her so many gifts, so many incalculable gifts. And you're right, it is *both* of them. He broods. She snipes. That's why I need you. You fortify me against them.

• Lestat de Lioncourt : Louis, I don't know what possessed me that night.

  Claudia : Three years ago. That night three years ago, he means.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : I was someone I don't want to be anymore. I've changed. Let me prove it to you. I'm nothing without you. I'm nothing without both of you. If you want me to go away, just say so. I'll obey you. I'll leave your life forever.

  [Louis doesn't answer] 

  Lestat de Lioncourt : This silence is cruel. And you were never cruel, Louis.

• Claudia : Let me go, Lestat.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : In Louis' hour of need? I'm afraid I can't allow that. He's very fragile right now. Worse than the last time you abandoned him, when you filled your head with knowledge and hitched a ride on a motorbike.

• Claudia : He picked you over me.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Louis couldn't pick an apple off a tree in his current state.

• Lestat de Lioncourt : Claudia... you left, without saying goodbye. Again. I'm sure it was an oversight, but still. You'd think your creator had earned the courtesy.

  Claudia : You didn't want me. You made me for Louis.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : And he needs you now more than ever. He's in a terrible state.

  Claudia : He said I could go. He picked you over me.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Louis couldn't pick an apple off a tree in his current state. He'd grip it, tug at it, then, weak as he is, the stem would hold.

• Louis de Pointe du Lac : She's coming up on 33.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : It's a lick and a promise in vampire years.

  Claudia : Maybe, but I'm not your child anymore. That's rule number five. I'll be your companion, your sister.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : It's not as simple as choosing a new family configuration. 'Now I'm your cousin.' 'Now I'm your aunt.' I am your maker!

  Claudia : But not my uncle or my daddy. I'm your sister or that's the door.

• [Louis bursts into Antoinette's house to find her and Lestat naked in bed] 

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : [shouting]  Six years of begging. You think a song's gon' get a rise out of me?

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Did you like it?

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : This her singing?

  Lestat de Lioncourt : It's a clear voice. I wanted to obstacle to the lyric.

  [Louis smashes the record] 

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : Write me a song and put your lover's voice on it? What the fuck is wrong with your head?

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Louis, you're soaking wet.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : I swim faster than I drive.

  [to Antoinette] 

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : Put some clothes on. Get the fuck out.

  Antoinette : This is my house.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : Do I look like I care?

  Antoinette : Lestat.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Leave.

  [to Louis] 

  Lestat de Lioncourt : You swam the Mississippi to find me?

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : I hate you.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : As you should.

• Lestat de Lioncourt : Claudia, hello. I've been calling quite often. I don't know if the operator is patching me through correctly.

  [Claudia stares without answering] 

  Lestat de Lioncourt : I brought something from Louis's favorite bookshop. 'The Book of Hours.' Extremely rare, 15th century. Silver and gold on the vellum, palettes of blue and old rose.

  Claudia : No one here wishes to speak with you.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Well, I know he's upstairs. I can see his silhouette. Perhaps we should let him decide if he wants to see me or not.

  [Louis throws Lestat's coffin off the balcony and it shatters on the street behind Lestat] 

  Claudia : How's that for an answer?

• Claudia : Who made you?

  Lestat de Lioncourt : His name was Magnus. He took me from my room in Paris as I kicked and screamed. He kept me for a week, locked in a room full of corpses. Some freshly killed, some bloated and black. But they all looked like me -- my coloring, my physique, my own eyes staring back at me from rotting faces. He fed on me every night and then he put me back in the tower with the lookalike corpses. I thought for sure I'd be one of them, but instead he turned me into this. No grand history of vampiric origins or physiology, no rules, no counsel. Just a sweeping hand to a pile of money and the sight of him throwing himself into a fire. And then I was alone. I thought, 'I can't drink hot blood. I can't feed on others.' I cried. I called to God. I didn't want this. But I have a capacity for enduring. That's why I don't particularly like being abandoned.

• Lestat de Lioncourt : She's an affected, self-absorbed, nasty little creature who's fooled herself into thinking she's smarter than she is, and she is poisoning Louis against me.

• Lestat de Lioncourt : Claudia... you left! Without saying goodbye. Again.

• Claudia : [Crying]  Let me go, Lestat.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : In Louis hour of need? I'm afraid I can't allow that. He's very fragile right now. Worse than the last time you abandoned him, when you filled your head with knowledge and hitched a ride on a motorbike.

  [Claudia shudders] 

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Well, you wouldn't talk of it. Louis insisted I not ask. I love our family, but the rules are, 'No secrets!' Fortunate for our family, when I put my mind to it, I can hear the thoughts of other vampires at a very great distance.

  Claudia : Bastard.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : He thinks of you often... Bruce.

  Claudia : Fucking bastard!

  Lestat de Lioncourt : I couldn't agree more. What he did to you was in very poor taste. Could you imagine if something like that happened to you again? Louis would never forgive himself. Back in your cage, sweetheart. We endure each other for Louis' happiness. So come home, and make him happy. Because if you try this again, Claudia, I won't snap your leg, defile your pocket and zoom off on a motorbike. I'll turn your bones to dust.