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(Hannibal: 'Why do you think he removes their skins?') "It excites him. Most serial killers keep some sort of trophies from their victims. ('I didn't.') No. No, you ate yours."
- Clarice Starling, Silence of the Lambs

(Murray: 'Is it true what they're sayin', he's some kinda vampire?') "They don't have a name for what he is."
- Clarice Starling, Silence of the Lambs

"You see a lot, Doctor. But are you strong enough to point that high-powered perception at yourself? What about it? Why don't you...why don't you look at yourself and write down what you see? Or maybe you're afraid to."
- Clarice Starling, Silence of the Lambs

(to Hannibal Lecter) "Your anagrams are showing, Doctor. Louis Friend? Iron sulfide, also known as fool's gold."
- Clarice Starling, Silence of the Lambs

"I am going to show you why we insist on such precautions. On the evening of July 8th, 1981, he complained of chest pains and was taken to the dispensary. His mouthpiece and restraints were removed for an EKG. When the nurse leaned over him, he did this to her. [pulls out photo] The doctors managed to reset her jaw more or less. Saved one of her eyes. His pulse never got above 85, even when he ate her tongue."
- Dr. Frederick Chilton, Silence of the Lambs

"A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti."
- Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

(Clarice: 'Did you do all these drawings, Doctor?') "Ah. That is the Duomo seen from the Belvedere. Do you know Florence? ('All that detail just from memory, sir?') Memory, Agent Starling, is what I have instead of a view."
- Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

"First principles, Clarice. Simplicity. Read Marcus Aurelius. Of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? What is its nature? What does he do, this man you seek?"
- Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

(on telephone) "I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner. Bye."
- Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

(Clarice Starling: 'Where are you, Dr. Lecter?') "I've no plans to call on you, Clarice. The world is more interesting with you in it. "
- Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

"Now then, tell me. What did Miggs say to you? Multiple Miggs in the next cell. He hissed at you. What did he say? (Clarice: 'He said, 'I can smell your cunt.'') I see. I myself cannot. You use Evian skin cream, and sometimes you wear L'Air du Temps, but not today."
- Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

(Clarice: 'If you didn't kill him, then who did, sir?') "Who can say. Best thing for him, really. His therapy was going nowhere."
- Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

"Why do you think he removes their skins, Agent Starling? Enthrall me with your acumen."
- Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

"You fly back to school, now, little Starling. Fly, fly, fly."
- Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

"You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste. Good nutrition's given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling? And that accent you've tried so desperately to shed; pure West Virginia. What is your father, dear? Is he a coal miner? Does he stink of the lamp? You know how quickly the boys found you...all those tedious sticky fumblings in the back seats of cars...while you could only dream of getting out...getting anywhere...getting all the way to the FBI."
- Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

"Believe me, you don't want Hannibal Lecter inside your head."
- Jack Crawford, Silence of the Lambs

"Just do your job, but never forget what he is. (Clarice: 'And what is that?') Oh, he's a monster. Pure psychopath. So rare to capture one alive. From a research point of view, Lecter is our most prized asset."
- Jack Crawford, Silence of the Lambs

(Catherine Martin: 'Mister, my family will pay cash. Whatever ransom you're askin' for, they pay it.') "It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again."
- Jame 'Buffalo Bill' Gumb, Silence of the Lambs

"It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told."
- Jame 'Buffalo Bill' Gumb, Silence of the Lambs

(to his dog, Precious) "Yes, it will, Precious, won't it? It will get the hose!...Now it places the lotion in the basket."
- Jame 'Buffalo Bill' Gumb, Silence of the Lambs

 

 

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