Lestat quotes

View Quote [At start and voice over] There comes a time for every vampire when the idea of eternity becomes momentarily unbearable. Living in the shadows, feeding in the darkness with only your own company to keep, rots into a solitary, hollow existence. Immortality seems like a good idea, until you realize you're going to spend it alone. So I went to sleep, hoping that the sounds of the passing eras would fade out, and a sort of death might happen. But as I lay there, the world didn't sound like the place I had left, but something different. [rock music starts] Better. It became worthwhile to rise again as new gods were born and worshipped. Night and day, they were never alone. I would become one of them. [feeds on pimp] Whether it was that first meal, or a hundred years of rest, I'm not sure. But suddenly I was feeling better than ever. My senses so high they led me straight to the instrument of my resurrection, playing in my old house.

View Quote We are the powerful, we are the immortal! We should walk fearless in the open!

View Quote From that moment on, they were my friends, my children, my band. Giving the world a new god... me.

View Quote Many times since then I've called for Marius, but there was no answer. Just the endless precession of days, months, years... My teacher left me to my darkest lesson, that in the end, we are alone, and there is nothing but the cold, dark wasteland of eternity.

View Quote [in a TV interview cast worldwide, talking to all the vampires listening] Come out, come out, wherever you are.

View Quote (To Jessie) Well, I can change that.

View Quote It was hard to believe these beings were mortal -- so confident in their skin. Everything in my body wanted to be with them. I couldn't help myself.

View Quote The question provoked an irresistible urge...I am the vampire Lestat. It just rolled out of my mouth. With one simple sentence I had betrayed everything about my kind. Betrayed our code of secrecy.

View Quote After calling one stone tomb home sweet home for so long, I like to experience as much diversity as I can. Wouldn't you?

View Quote Maybe I'm trying to resurrect a few old friends with my words. Daring them to come out.

View Quote I impressed my maker with my thirst for things. He set out to educate me in the unknown. Taught me all about the world, its hidden history... and about myself

View Quote Humanity? (snort) We're murderers.

View Quote My senses run amok, like a newborn child. And as for my new powers,I was beside myself with the pleasure of it all...

View Quote But why must we hide, Marius? We are the powerful, we are the immortal. We should walk fearless in the open

View Quote The faces of my victims haunted me, rising behind my eyes, reminding me of my fate... I played for days trying to expel the last bit of my human feelings... and face the cold, dark wasteland of eternity...

View Quote Well, Talamascan, you're certainly a very clever librarian, aren't you?

View Quote How sad, you people always trying to know the unknowable... So, was it a good read? My diary.

View Quote Live and let live.

View Quote Come, let me show you what it means to live in the light.

View Quote Such reverence for mortals! Then you should have left me as one!

View Quote This may be painful for a mortal. You're still attached to your skin.