Interview with the Vampire (TV Series)

A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart (2022)

Bailey Bass: Claudia

Quotes 

• [Claudia returns home after seven years] 

  Lestat de Lioncourt : The prodigal daughter.

  Claudia : I've come to apologize. I put you both in a bad spot. I wasn't right in my head. I am now.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Apology not accepted.

• [Lestat and Claudia fight over Louis] 

  Claudia : [telepathically]  Come with me! Come with me, Louis!

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Louis...

  Claudia : [aloud]  I thought I could live without you, but I was wrong.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Louis.

  [shouts] 

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Louis!

  Claudia : [telepathically]  His love is a small box he keeps you in. Don't stay in it.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : [shouting]  A thousand nights of sulking, and the first sight of her, you are just gonna up and leave me?

  Claudia : [shouting aloud]  Please, come with me! Let's meet vampires worthy of your love!

• Claudia : Who am I supposed to love? You two have each other? Who's my Lestat? Who's my Louis? I'm not human. What human would want me? Perverts? Like the uncle at the roomin' house who used to watch me pee? Or little boys? And forty years from now, still little boys?

  [shouts] 

  Claudia : How you gonna fix it, huh? Which one of you gonna fuck me?

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Well, you're not my type. I like a fuller figure.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : Lestat!

  Lestat de Lioncourt : She's being impossible!

• Claudia : Why can't I make one? No matter how much blood I give them, they just lie there gaspin'.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : What is this? Look at me! What have you done?

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : Did you try to make another?

  Claudia : Boy from Ponchatoula. Boy from Hollygrove. Boy with a bow tie out in Algiers.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : Claudia, how'd you figure this was gon' go?

  Claudia : [to Lestat]  Make me one.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Because you turned out so well.

  Claudia : 'Cause if you don't, I'm gonna go out there and find other vampires.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : If you could find them, which you won't, they would shred you to strips, because you are built like a bird, because you are a mistake!

• Claudia : [to Louis]  He treats us like shit and you take it! Why is that?

  Claudia : [to Lestat]  And you, cruel as the Devil ever made, to refuse me one love when you've got two!

  [scoffs] 

  Claudia : White girl, down in Algiers, sings torch songs with a flat, no-nothin' ass. Been following you, Uncle Les. You ain't been your careful self.

  Claudia : [to Louis]  He's gotten tired of us, Daddy Lou. The housewife and the mistake.

• Lestat de Lioncourt : How was college? Magna cum? Summa cum? Phi Beta Kappa?

  Claudia : I've read a lot of books. Started with Persia and Babylon, the old gods who longed for blood. A lot of it was popcorn, but a few old tomes. A Romanian tract on 'vampirs.' A strange, old Hungarian text, 'Masticatione Mortuorum,' the 'chewing dead.' I plan to leave for that part of the world as soon as I can.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : So, a quick stop home to do laundry before you fuck off for good.

• Claudia : Let him go! It's me you want!

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Listen to me, and listen very carefully, my infant death. It was *never* you.

• Claudia : I've read a lot of books. Started with Persia and Babylon, the old gods who longed for blood. A lot of it was popcorn, but a few old tomes. A Romanian tract on 'vampirs.' A strange, old Hungarian text, 'Masticatione Mortuorum,' the 'chewing dead.' I plan to leave for that part of the world as soon as I can.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : So... quick stop home to do laundry before you fuck off for good.

  Claudia : A quick stop to pick up Louis.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Perused a few folklore anthologies, and now you're going to cross the ocean and take on a society of monsters.

  Claudia : If what I read is lies, then tell me what's true.

  [Lestat stares without answering] 

  Claudia : [scoffs]  Seven years and what's changed, other than you need a housekeeper?

• Lestat de Lioncourt : [dragging Louis by the throat]  I fought myself a million times, fought my nature, controlled my temper. I never once harmed you.

  Claudia : Uncle Les!

  Lestat de Lioncourt : [stops]  It's 'Uncle Les' now suddenly?

  Claudia : Let him go! He didn't do nothin'! Let him go! It's me you want!

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Listen to me, and listen very carefully, my infant death. It was *never* you!

  Lestat de Lioncourt : [to Louis]  I chose you!

  [bites Louis's neck and flies off with him] 

• Lestat de Lioncourt : The vampires out there are vicious.

  [seeing the look on Claudia's face] 

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Oh... but you've learned that already. Who did you meet out there in the American hinterland? Read her, Louis.

  Claudia : That's it, keep him scared.

  [to Louis] 

  Claudia : That's his way.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : The vampires in Europe are much, much worse.

  Claudia : [to Louis]  But I think *he's* scared.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : I never asked. How did Charlie taste? Like the love you'll never really know?

  Claudia : [to Louis]  And when he's scared, he ridicules.