But just remember, life without me would be even more unbearable.

Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.

Claudia... you've been a very very naughty little girl.

Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.

I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not.

Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.

One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.

-You are on the verge of being truly mad. -No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See?

None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.

Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

Blessed are those who are so naive that they do not know what they cannot do.

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that, the rest is easy.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

Colour itself is a degree of darkness.

It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific

Acting is very immediate.

I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.

In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.