Red Dragon (2002)

Anthony Hopkins: Dr. Hannibal Lecter

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Quotes 

• Hannibal Lecter : And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.

• Will Graham : I thought you might enjoy the challenge. Find out if you're smarter than the person I'm looking for.

  Hannibal Lecter : Then, by implication, you think you're smarter than I am, since it was you who caught me.

  Will Graham : No, I know I'm not smarter than you.

  Hannibal Lecter : Then how did you catch me?

  Will Graham : You had... disadvantages.

  Hannibal Lecter : What disadvantages?

  Will Graham : You're insane.

• [last lines] 

  Dr. Frederick Chilton : There's someone to see you, Lecter. A young woman... says she's from the FBI, but she seems much too pretty for that if you ask me.

  [Lecter appears unmoved] 

  Dr. Frederick Chilton : I'll tell her you said no.

  [Chilton walks away offscreen, as Lecter looks up and makes eye contact with the camera] 

  Hannibal Lecter : ...what is her name?

• Hannibal Lecter : Remarkable boy. I do admire your courage. I think I'll eat your heart.

• Dinner Guest : Hannibal, confess. What is this divine-looking amuse bouche?

  Hannibal Lecter : If I tell you, I'm afraid you won't even try it.

• Hannibal Lecter : [in the final letter to Will]  My dear Will, you must be healed by now... on the outside at least, I hope you're not too ugly. What a collection of scars you have. Never forget who gave you the best of them, and be grateful, our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real. We live in a primitive time, don't we, Will? Neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it, any rational society will either kill me or put me to some use. Do you dream much, Will? I think of you often. Your old friend, Hannibal Lector.

• Hannibal Lecter : [after he stabs Will]  Shh. Don't move. You're in shock now. I don't want you to feel any pain. In a moment, you'll begin to feel light-headed, then drowsy. Don't resist, it's so gentle, like slipping into a warm bath. I regret it came to this, Will, but every game must have its ending.

• Hannibal Lecter : I'll call you if I think of anything else, would you perhaps like to leave me your home phone number?

• Will Graham : I need your opinion now.

  Hannibal Lecter : Then here's one... you stink of fear under that cheap lotion. You stink of fear Will, but you're not a coward. You fear me, but still you came here. You fear this shy boy, yet still you seek him out. Don't you understand, Will? You caught me because we're very much alike. Without our imaginations, we'd be like all those other poor... dullards. Fear... is the price of our instrument. But I can help you bear it.

• Hannibal Lecter : Tell me, Will. Did you enjoy it? Your first murder? Of course you did. And why shouldn't it feel good? It does to God. Why only last week in Texas, he dropped a church roof on the heads of 34 of his worshippers, just as they were groveling for him. He wouldn't begrudge you for one Journalist.

• Hannibal Lecter : You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.

• Hannibal Lecter : That's the same atrocious aftershave you wore in court.

  Will Graham : I keep getting it for Christmas.

  Hannibal Lecter : Christmas, yes. Did you get my card?

• Hannibal Lecter : A robin red-breast in a cage, puts all of Heaven in a rage. Think to yourself that every day is your last. The hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise. As for me, when you want a good laugh, you will find me in fine state... fat and sleek, a true hog of Epicurus's herd.

• Hannibal Lecter : Ah yes Dr. Chillton. Gruesome isn't he? Fumbles at your head like a freshman pulling at a panty girdle.

• Hannibal Lecter : First he kills the pet, and then the family. Freddy was your pet, Will.

• Hannibal Lecter : Have you seen blood in the moonlight? It appears quite black.

• [first lines] 

  Hannibal Lecter : Think to yourself that every day is your last. The hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise. As for me, when you want a good laugh, you will find me in fine state, fat and sleek, a true hog of Epicurus's herd.

• Will Graham : I might not have time.

  Hannibal Lecter : I do. I have oodles.

• Hannibal Lecter : Beneath the yellow folder, you'll find your latest rejection slip from the archives. It was brought to me by mistake with some of my archives mail. I'm afraid I opened it without looking. Sorry.

  Dr. Frederick Chilton : I think we'll remove Dr. Lecter's toilet seat as well

• Hannibal Lecter : And how is the young Josh and the lovely Molly? They're always in my thoughts, you know.

• Hannibal Lecter : Do you like my little exercise cage, Will? My so-called lawyer is always nagging Dr. Chilton for better accommodations. I don't know which is the greater fool.

• Hannibal Lecter : Can I see the photos?

  Will Graham : No

  Hannibal Lecter : Why not?

  Will Graham : It would be obscene.

• Hannibal Lecter : Has it occurred to you he may be disfigured or consider himself to be disfigured?