Hannibal (2001) - Quotes

Hannibal Lecter: I came half way around the world, to watch you run, Clarice. Let me run, eh?

Hannibal Lecter: Paul, would you like to say grace?

Paul Krendler: [in drugged, lobotomized stupor] God bless every one of us, even white trash like Starling.

Hannibal Lecter: [[Paul of Tarsus|Apostle Paul] I don't think the ] could have put it any better. He hated women too.

Paul Krendler: What the fuck...

Hannibal Lecter: [walks in from behind''] Good, you brought the wine.

Paul Krendler: [Lecter smothers him with a dish cloth] Oh God--

Clarice Starling: I'll cut you loose. If you touch me, I'll shoot you.

Hannibal Lecter: Understood.

Clarice Starling: Do right, and you'll live through this.

Hannibal Lecter: Spoken like a true Protestant.

Mason Verger: I suppose now you wish that you had fed the rest of me to the dogs.

Hannibal Lecter: No, Mason. I much prefer you the way you are.

Mason Verger: What do you think?

Paul Krendler: I could have handled this.

Mason Verger: Oh, coulda, woulda, shoulda. I mean what do you think about the money?

Paul Krendler: Five.

Mason Verger: Oh, let's just toss it off like five'! Let's say it with the respect it deserves.

Paul Krendler: Five hundred thousand dollars.

Mason Verger: Well, that's better, but not much. Will it work?

Paul Krendler: It'll work. Won't be pretty.

Mason Verger: What ever is?

Mason Verger: Cocksucker!

Mason Verger: So what do you think, Cordell? Does Lecter want to fuck her or kill her or eat her alive?

Cordell Doemling: Probably all three, though I wouldn't want to predict in what order.

Hannibal Lecter: [Rinaldo Pazzi struggles in his binds; his mouth is taped-over] So—now, was it Mason Verger you sold me to? No, no, no; blink twice for yes and once for no—was it Mason Verger you sold me to?

Hannibal Lecter: Yes, good, thank you. And are his men waiting for me outside?

Hannibal Lecter: Was that a single blink? Oh, you're confused. Well, please don't be confused because I may have to fillet Signora Pazzi after all.

Hannibal Lecter: [Pazzi blinks once; Pazzi, again, blinks once; Lecter opens the window and prepares to wheel Pazzi out onto the balcony on a box-trolley.; Lecter reaches into Pazzi's jacket and pulls out a vibrating mobile phone; Lecter answers the phone; Clarice is on the other end.] Have you told anyone in the questura about me? No, I thought not. Have you told Allegra? No? Are you sure? I believe you. Okey dokey, here we go. Okay... Your heart is really palpitating. Oh, it's not your heart. Well, should I answer it? Pronto.

Clarice Starling: I've gone above you. I've spoken to your section-chief. Someday you'll thank me, or you won't. I don't care, you'll be alive. Inspector Pazzi?

Hannibal Lecter: Is this Clarice? Well, hello Clarice. I'm afraid I have bad news for you.

Clarice Starling: Is he dead?

Hannibal Lecter: Did you get my note? I hope you liked the skin-cream, I had it specially made for you.

Clarice Starling: [Clarice cuts him off] Is he dead, Dr Lecter?!

Hannibal Lecter: [Lecter hangs up the phone and turns to Pazzi; Lecter places the phone back into Pazzi's jacket; He wheels Pazzi out onto the balcony, whistling rock-a-bye-baby; Lecter incises Pazzi's abdomen with his Spyderco Harpy and sends him over the railing] Clarice, there's nothing in this world that I would love more than to be able to chat with you. Unfortunately, you've caught me at an awkward moment. Please forgive me. See you around... An old friend. OK, hold on. Here we go... What's it to be? Bowels in or bowels out, like Judas? Oh, you're confused? Then I'll decide for you, if you permit me.

Mason Verger: I might be able to get a cookie now. What do you think, Cordell?

Cordell Doemling: I think it would kill you.

Clarice Starling: Paul, what is it with you? I told you to go home to your wife, was that wrong?

Paul Krendler: Don't flatter yourself, Starling. That was a long time ago. Why would I hold that against you? Besides, this town is full of cornpone country pussy.

Paul Krendler: Jesus, Starling! What are you doing sitting there in the dark?

Clarice Starling: Thinking about cannibalism.

Agent Pearsall: Of course you're right, Starling... but it doesn't change anything.

Clarice Starling: It changes everything. It changes me.

Mason Verger: The good doctor approached me with a piece of broken mirror and said, "Try this"...

Hannibal Lecter: Try peeling off your face...

Mason Verger: [In the flashback, Verger cuts off parts of his face] ...and feeding it to the dogs." Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Mason Verger: You know, I thank God for what happened. It was my salvation. Have you accepted Jesus, Agent Starling? Do you have faith?

Clarice Starling: I was raised Lutheran.

Mason Verger: That's not what I asked.

Mason Verger: When the fox hears the rabbit scream, he comes a-runnin'... but not to help.

Mason Verger: [to Clarice] Isn't it funny? You can look at my face... but you shied when I said the name of God.

Mason Verger: [[Jesus] It's all right. I have immunity from the U.S. Attorney. And I have immunity... from the risen ]. And nobody beats the Riz.

Clarice Starling: 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.

Clarice Starling: [about Dr. Lecter] He's always with me. Like a bad habit.

Hannibal Lecter: [to Rinaldo Pazzi] Please don't be confused—because I may have to fillet Signora Pazzi after all.

Hannibal Lecter: [to Rinaldo Pazzi] On a related subject, I must confess to you, I'm giving very serious thought... to eating your wife.

Hannibal Lecter: 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.

Hannibal Lecter: [repeated line] Okey-dokey, here we go.

Hannibal Lecter: 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.

Hannibal Lecter: 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.

Hannibal Lecter: Could he daily feel a stab of hunger for her, and find nourishment in the very sight of her? I think so. But would she see through the bars of his plight and ache for him?

Hannibal Lecter: [in a letter to Clarice Starling] Your job is to craft my doom... so I'm not sure how well I should wish you... but I'm sure we'll have a lot of fun. Ta-ta. "H.

Hannibal Lecter: [in a letter to Clarice Starling] By the way I couldn't help noticing on the FBI's rather dull public website that I have been hoisted from the Bureau's archives of the common criminal and elevated to the more prestigious 10 Most Wanted list. Is this coincidence, or are you back on the case? If so, goody goody, cause I need to come out of retirement and return to public life.

Hannibal Lecter: [in a letter to Clarice Starling] Dear Clarice, I have followed with enthusiasm the course of your disgrace and public shaming. My own never bothered me, except for the inconvenience of being incarcerated, but you may lack perspective.

Hannibal Lecter: 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?

Hannibal Lecter: [to Barney, on a recording from his imprisonment] 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.