Most-quoted character in Queen of the Damned (2002): in 37 of its 63 quotes
Most scenes with: Marius (14), Jessie (6), Akasha (2)
A line from Lestat
(To Jessie) Well, I can change that.
More lines from Lestat
22 quotes
Lestat [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.
Lestat We are the powerful, we are the immortal! We should walk fearless in the open!
Lestat From that moment on, they were my friends, my children, my band. Giving the world a new god... me.
Lestat 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.
Lestat [in a TV interview cast worldwide, talking to all the vampires listening]
Come out, come out, wherever you are.
Lestat 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.
Lestat 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.
Lestat After calling one stone tomb home sweet home for so long, I like to experience as much diversity as I can. Wouldn't you?
Lestat Maybe I'm trying to resurrect a few old friends with my words. Daring them to come out.
Lestat 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
Lestat Humanity? (snort) We're murderers.
Lestat My senses run amok, like a newborn child. And as for my new powers,I was beside myself with the pleasure of it all...
Lestat But why must we hide, Marius? We are the powerful, we are the immortal. We should walk fearless in the open
Lestat 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...
Lestat Well, Talamascan, you're certainly a very clever librarian, aren't you?
Lestat How sad, you people always trying to know the unknowable... So, was it a good read? My diary.
Lestat Live and let live.
Lestat Come, let me show you what it means to live in the light.
Lestat Such reverence for mortals! Then you should have left me as one!
Lestat This may be painful for a mortal. You're still attached to your skin.
Lestat Boo back. [Proceeds to smiles]
Lestat The faces of my victims haunted me, reminding me of my fate... For nights and nights I played, furious. Never again I would participate in the simple joys of life. I was meant for more than this.
Scenes with Lestat
14 scenes
Lestat But I never understood until I met you.
Lestat You're beautiful to me because you're human. Your frailty, your short years, your heart; even as you think it's breaking. All that seems suddenly more precious than anything I've ever known.
I'm not as precious as you think.
Lestat How did you manage to slip through the 50's in red velvet?
Lestat You didn't miss much.
Lestat Elvis, yes.
Lestat Boo back.
Lifestyle Journalist Do you have anything you want to say to the other vampires listening out there?
Lestat Yes, as a matter of fact, I do.
Lifestyle Journalist What is that?
Lestat Come out, come out, wherever you are.
Lestat I don't have time for this.
All a vampire has is time.
Lestat Not this one!
Lestat For what?
Lestat How presumptuous.
Lestat Well, that makes you a very clever librarian, Talamascan. I knew I left that journal somewhere. So, was it a good read?
Lestat Did it now? Don't worry, Jessie. Your kind never satisfied my thirst.
You're bold like your music. You live your life in the open like I did, long ago, when I had a king.
Lestat Had a king?
He is no more. Now you are my consort.
Lestat A London goth. It's funny. I would have pegged you for a Talamascan.
Maybe in another lifetime.
LG LA Groupie
I'm an a Episcopalian!
Roger And I'm a friggin Buddhist. Uh, Lestat...
Lestat Roger, would you take our little Episcopalian back to church?
Lestat Boo. That was quite a preformance. You should learn to be more careful. So, you know Marius?
Lestat Not how to stay alive, apparently.
O, I guess we have that in common, though I think I'm a little ahead of the race, here.
Lestat Well, I can fix that.
Your song "Redeemer" is about the girl with the violin?
Lestat Yes. And what else do you think you know?
Lestat What do I want?
Lestat What do I yearn... what do I yearn...
To walk with the living... out of the cold dark waste land of eternity.
Lestat Very good, Talamascan. I knew I left that journal somewhere.
Lestat Akasha!
Why so surprised to see me, my love. You've called, I've come.
Lestat My love?
In all those years I've kept them not once have they moved.
Lestat Not until tonight, and she chose me.
J Journalist
Yes, but these other vampires, aren't they going to be pissed off at you giving away their secrets?
Lestat Mmmmm... I imagine they are... Yes...!
You are the damnedest creature! You make me think of the old story about Alexander The Great. He wept when there where no more worlds to conquer. Will you weep when there are no more rules to break?
Lestat Ah, but there are always rules to break.
Other characters in Queen of the Damned
More Stuart Townsend characters
