Claudia One lesson you taught me: never drink from the dead.
3rd most-quoted character in Interview with the Vampire (1994): in 13 of its 51 quotes
Most scenes with: Louis (7), Lestat (4)
Locked together in hatred. I can hate Lestat. But I can't hate you, Louis. Louis, my love, I was mortal until you gave me your immortal kiss. You became my mother, and my father, and so I'm yours forever. But now it's time to end it, Louis. Now it's time to leave him.
More lines from Claudia
5 quotes Claudia Claudia I'll put you in your coffin!
Claudia You have found your new companion, Louis! You will make me mine!
Claudia Your evil is that you cannot be evil. And I shall suffer for it no longer!
Claudia Snatching me from my mother's hands, like two monsters in a fairytale. And now you weep! I haven't tears enough for what you've done to me.
Scenes with Claudia
7 scenes Claudia You ... fed on me.
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.
Claudia You both did it.
I took your life ... he gave you another one.
Claudia And here it is, and I hate you both!
More melancholy nonsense. I swear, you grow more and more like Louis each day. Soon you'll be eating rats!
Claudia Rats? When did you eat rats, Louis?
It was a long, long time ago, before you were born. [playfully slurps] And I don't recommend them.
Claudia [Lestat has just given Claudia a doll]
Another doll? I have dozen, you realize.
I thought you could use one more.
Claudia Why always on this night?
What do you mean?
Claudia You always give me a doll on the same night of the year.
Oh? I didn't realize.
Claudia Is this my birthday? You dress me like a doll. You make my hair like a doll. Why?
Lestat (trying to change the subject): Some of these, Claudia, are so old ... tattered. You should throw them away.
Claudia I will, then!
[Claudia begins removing the dolls from her bed, revealing the naked corpse of a woman lying underneath.]
Claudia? Claudia? Claudia! What have you done?
Claudia What you told me to do!
Leave a corpse here to rot?
Claudia I wanted her! I wanted to be her!
Claudia.
Pollutes the very house we live in!
Claudia Do you want me to be a doll forever?!
Claudia Why not? Can't I change, like everybody else?!
Claudia [Proceeds to cut off her hair then runs into her bedroom. Seconds later Claudia's screams are heard from within her room. Louis busts in to find Claudia in front of the mirror with a full head of curls]
Which one of you did it?! [pushes past Louis and confronts Lestat] Which one of you made me the way I am?!
What you are? A vampire gone insane, that pollutes its own bed?
Claudia And if I cut my hair again!
It will grow back again.
Claudia But it wasn't always so. I had a mother once. And Louis, he had a wife. He was mortal, the same was she. And so was I!
Claudia!
Claudia You made us what we are! Didn't you?
Stop her, Louis!
Claudia Did you do it to me?
Claudia [Claudia cuts Lestat's cheeks with the scissors. Lestat looks at Claudia stunned]
How did you do it?
And why should I tell you? It's in my power.
Claudia Why yours alone? Tell me how it was done!
Be glad I made you what you are.
[Lestat jumps out of the chair he had been sitting in and grabs Claudia by the throat]
You'd be dead now if I hadn't. Liked that damned corpse. Now get rid of it!
Claudia You get rid of it!
[She drops the scissors, then storms out]
Absinthe. You've given them absinthe.
Claudia No, laudanum. It killed them, unfortunately, but it keeps the blood warm.
Listen, Louis. There's life in these old hands still. Not quite Furioso. Moderato? Cantabile, perhaps.
Claudia How could it be?
Ask the alligator. His blood helped. Then on the 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.
Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires.
Claudia How avant-garde!
Santiago Two lovers... wandering down their violet way... whose passionate embraces, each to each... permit no meditations on decay... until they find themselves... within my reach!
Vampires who pretend to be humans pretending to be vampires.
Claudia How avant-garde.
Santiago The monk whose soul with Heaven doth commune... and spends his days... in pious contemplation... finds he will meet his Maker all too soon. For all his prayers gets no remuneration. The lesson endeth here... and it is this: Each one of you, my clammy hands must touch. Each one must bend his forehead to my kiss. But, hark! Methinks a mortal doth approach! [Santiago minions bring forth mortal woman prey] What have we here? What beauty by my side? A rose in bloom, a shrinking violet? Perhaps she has a mind to be my bride. Perhaps my lesson has not ended yet!
Mortal woman prey
I don't want to die!
Santiago But death we are and have always been.
Mortal woman prey
Someone help me! Please! [Santiago minions grab ahold of woman prey and begin to undress her] What have I done?!
Santiago We all die!
Mortal woman But I'm young!
Santiago Death is no respecter of age! It can come any time, any place. [Undoes her blouse and takes it off] Just as this flesh is pink now... so it will turn gray and wrinkle with age.
Mortal woman prey
Let me live! I don't care!
Santiago Then why should you care if you die now? And suppose death had a heart to love and to release you? To whom would he turn his passion? Would you choose a person from the crowd there? A person to suffer as you do?
Audience woman [Stands up]
Monsieur Vampire, take me! I adore you!
Santiago You wait your turn! [Audience chuckles] Well... Do you know what it means to be loved by death? To become our bride? [Fire explodes with Armand making entrance]
No pain. No pain.
We live beneath. Let me show you.
Monstrous.
Yes. But very beautiful. Welcome to my home. [Prepubescent boy walks over and Armand puts arm around him] Try him. [Louis takes boy's hand, realizes of previous bite marks then finds another unbitten spot and chomps]
