[to Clarice]
It's funny, though. You can look at my face...but you shied when I said the name of God.
Hannibal Lecter
Anthony Hopkins · 26 quotes
Clarice Starling
Julianne Moore · 10 quotes
Mason Verger
Gary Oldman · 9 quotes
Paul Krendler
Ray Liotta · 6 quotes
Most scenes together: Hannibal Lecter & Mason Verger (2), Hannibal Lecter & Paul Krendler (2), Clarice Starling & Paul Krendler (2)
Hannibal quotes
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Please don't be confused—because I may have to fillet Signora Pazzi after all.
Could he daily feel a stab of hunger for her…and find nurishment in the very sight of her? I think so. But would she see through the bars of his plight and ache for him?
Do you have so much faith in your abilities that you honestly believe you can somehow simultaneously arrest me and them? It could get very messy, Clarice, like the fish market.
How does that word taste to you, Clarice? Cheap and metallic, like sucking on a greasy coin?
It's all right. I have immunity from the US Attorney. And I have immunity... from the risen Jesus. And nobody beats the Riz.
My freedom, just that. You'd take that from me. And if you did, would they have you back, do you think? The FBI? Those people you despise almost as much as they despise you? Will they give you a medal, Clarice, do you think? Would you have it professionally framed and hang it on your wall to look at and remind you of your courage and incorruptibility? All you would need for that, Clarice, is a mirror.
My life? What is there to say about mine? I have been in a state of hibernation for some time... a little inactive. But now I'm back home and I'm very happy…and very healthy. You though. It's you I'm worried about.
On a similar note I must confess to you, I'm giving very serious thought... to eating your wife.
There are shallow rollers, and there are deep rollers. You can't breed two deep rollers…or their young, their offspring, will roll all the way down…hit and die. Agent Starling is a deep roller, Barney. Let us hope one of her parents was not.
This is from the Guinness Book of World Records, congratulating me on being the female FBI Agent who has shot and killed the most people.
This is really going to hurt.
What is worst about this humiliation, Clarice? Is it how your failure will reflect on your mommy and daddy? Is your worst fear that people will now and forever believe…they were indeed just good old trailer-camp…tornado-bait white trash…and that perhaps you are too?
When the fox hears the rabbit scream, he comes a-runnin'... but not to help.