Silence Of The Lambs Quotes: The Silence of the Lambs was nominated for 7 Oscars in 1992, while bringing a golden statuette to its director and leading actors, it also won the award for best film and best screenplay adaptation.
Clarice Starling, a young college-educated FBI agent, tries to save a woman from the clutches of a perverted killer who is flaying her victims.
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Silence Of The Lambs Quotes
1. “And what did you see, Clarice? What did you see?” — Hannibal Lecter, The Silence Of The Lambs
2. “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, The Silence Of The Lambs
3. “Yes or no, Clarice? Poor little Catherine is waiting.” — Hannibal Lecter, The Silence Of The Lambs
4. “Terns? Mmh. If I help you, Clarice, it will be “turns” with us too. Quid pro quo. I tell you things, you tell me things. Not about this case, though. About yourself. Quid pro quo. Yes or no?” — Hannibal Lecter, The Silence Of The Lambs
5. “But we don’t reckon time the same way, do we, Clarice?” — Hannibal Lecter, The Silence Of The Lambs
6. “Don’t you feel eyes moving over your body, Clarice? And don’t your eyes seek out the things you want?” — Hannibal Lecter, The Silence Of The Lambs
7. “I’ve been in this room for eight years, now Clarice, and I know they’ll never let me out, not while I’m alive. What I want is a view where I can see a tree or even water. I want to be in a federal institution far away from Doctor Chiltern. I’ll help you catch him, Clarice.” — Hannibal Lecter, The Silence Of The Lambs
8. “Clarice, your case file. Goodbye, Clarice.” — Hannibal Lecter, The Silence Of The Lambs
9. “No! He covets. That is his nature. And how do we begin to covet, Clarice? Do we seek out things to covet? Make an effort to answer now.” — Hannibal Lecter, The Silence Of The Lambs
10. “I do wish we could chat longer, but… I’m having an old friend for dinner. Bye.” — Hannibal Lecter, The Silence Of The Lambs
11. “I’ve no plans to call on you, Clarice. The world is more interesting with you in it.” — Hannibal Lecter, The Silence Of The Lambs
12. “Brave Clarice. You will let me know when those lambs stop screaming, won’t you?” — Hannibal Lecter, The Silence Of The Lambs
13. “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.” — Hannibal Lecter, The Silence Of The Lambs
14. “Jack Crawford is helping your career, isn’t he? Apparently, he likes you and you like him too.” — Hannibal Lecter, The Silence Of The Lambs
15. Hannibal Lecter: “Why do you think he removes their skins, Agent Starling?”
Hannibal Lecter: “Enthrall me with your acumen.” – The Silence Of The Lambs
16. “I see. I myself cannot. You use Evyan skin cream, and sometimes you wear L’Air du Temps, but not today.” — Hannibal Lecter, The Silence Of The Lambs
17. “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.” — Dr. Frederick Chilton, The Silence Of The Lambs
18. Hannibal Lecter: “Do you think that Jack Crawford wants you sexually? True, he is much older, but do you think he visualizes scenarios, exchanges, fucking you?”
Clarice Starling: “That doesn’t interest me Doctor and frankly, it’s, it’s the sort of thing that Miggs would say.” –The Silence Of The Lambs
19. “They don’t have a name for what he is.” — Clarice Starling, The Silence Of The Lambs
20. “A pretty young woman to turn him on. I don’t believe Lecter’s even seen a woman in eight years. And oh, are you ever his taste? So to speak.” — Dr. Frederick Chilton, The Silence Of The Lambs
21. “He won’t come after me. He won’t. I can’t explain it… He – he would consider that rude.” — Clarice Starling, The Silence Of The Lambs
22. “But I thought the “yourself” reference was too hokey for Lecter, so I figured he’s from Baltimore, and I looked in the phone book, and there’s a “Your Self Storage” facility, right outside of downtown Baltimore, sir.” — Clarice Starling, The Silence Of The Lambs
23. “Doctor, we don’t have any more time for any of this now.” — Clarice Starling, The Silence Of The Lambs
24. “Just do your job, but never forget what he is.” — Jack Crawford, The Silence Of The Lambs
25. “Hester Mofet. It’s an anagram, isn’t it, Doctor? Hester Mofet, “The rest of me.” “Miss the rest of me,” meaning that you rented that garage?” — Clarice Starling, The Silence Of The Lambs
26. “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, The Silence Of The Lambs
27. “If Lecter thinks you’re his enemy, maybe we’d have better luck if I went in by myself.” — Clarice Starling, The Silence Of The Lambs
28. Jack Crawford: Starling, when I told that sheriff we shouldn’t talk in front of a woman, that really burned you, didn’t it? It was just smoke, Starling. I had to get rid of him.
Clarice Starling: It matters, Mr. Crawford. Cops look at you to see how to act. It matters. –The Silence Of The Lambs
29 Dr. Frederick Chilton: You could have mentioned this in my office and saved me the time.
Clarice Starling: Yes, but then I would have missed the pleasure of your company. –The Silence Of The Lambs
30. “No. First I tried to free them. I… I opened the gate to their pen, but they wouldn’t run. They just stood there, confused. They wouldn’t run.” — Clarice Starling, The Silence Of The Lambs
31. “I graduated from UVA, Captain; it’s not exactly a charm school.” — Clarice Starling, The Silence Of The Lambs
32. “Plum Island Animal Disease Research Center. Sounds charming.” — Hannibal Lecter, The Silence Of The Lambs
33. “I don’t know. I didn’t have any food, any water, and it was very cold, very cold. I thought, I thought, if I could save just one, but… he was so heavy. So heavy. I didn’t get more than a few miles when the sheriff’s car picked me up. The rancher was so angry he sent me to live at the Lutheran orphanage in Bozeman. I never saw the ranch again.” — Clarice Starling, The Silence Of The Lambs
34. “Lambs. The lambs were screaming.” — Clarice Starling, The Silence Of The Lambs
35. “You still wake up sometimes, don’t you? You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.” — Hannibal Lecter, The Silence Of The Lambs
36. “You think if Catherine lives, you won’t wake up in the dark ever again to that awful screaming of the lambs.” — Hannibal Lecter, The Silence Of The Lambs
37. Clarice Starling: If you didn’t kill him, then who did, sir?
Hannibal Lecter: Who can say. Best thing for him, really. His therapy was going nowhere. –The Silence Of The Lambs
38. “Memory, Agent Starling, is what I have instead of a view.” — Hannibal Lecter, The Silence Of The Lambs
39. “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?” — Hannibal Lecter, The Silence Of The Lambs
40. “Punishment, you see, for Miggs. Like that Gospel Programme. When you’re gone, they’ll turn the volume way up. Doctor Chiltern does enjoy his petty torments.” — Hannibal Lecter, The Silence Of The Lambs
41. “All good things to those who wait. I’ve waited, but how long can you and Jackie-boy wait? Our little Billy must already be looking for that next special someone.” — Hannibal Lecter, The Silence Of The Lambs
42. “Garden-variety Manic Depressive. Tedious, very tedious. I did not kill him; I assure you just tucked him away, very much as I found him after he’d missed three appointments.” — Hannibal Lecter, The Silence Of The Lambs
43. “There are three major centers for transsexual surgery… I wouldn’t be surprised if Billy had applied for sex reassignment at one or all of them and been rejected… Billy hates his own identity, you see, and he thinks that makes him a transsexual.” — Hannibal Lecter, The Silence Of The Lambs
44. “There’s no correlation in the literature between transsexualism and violence. Transsexuals are very passive.” — Clarice Starling, The Silence Of The Lambs
45. “How the fuck should I know? Just get me outta here!” — Catherine Martin, The Silence Of The Lambs
46. “No. That is incidental. What is the first and principal thing he does? What needs does he serve by killing?” — Hannibal Lecter, The Silence Of The Lambs
47. Clarice Starling: FBI! You’re safe!
Catherine Martin: Safe? Shit! Get me outta here! –The Silence Of The Lambs
48. “No, nothin’ like that at all. Say, does the FBI learn something? The police around here don’t seem to have the first clue.” — Jame “Buffalo Bill” Gumb, The Silence Of The Lambs
49. “Is it true what they’re sayin’? He’s some kinda vampire?” — Murray, The Silence Of The Lambs
50. Clarice Starling: “It excites him. Most serial killers keep some sort of trophies from their victims.”
Hannibal Lecter: “I didn’t.”
Clarice Starling: “No. No, you ate yours.” – The Silence Of The Lambs
51. “Whenever feasible, one should always try to eat the rude.” –Dr. Hannibal Lecter, The Silence Of The Lambs
52. “A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.” –Dr. Hannibal Lecter, The Silence Of The Lambs
53. “Believe me, you don’t want Hannibal Lecter inside your head.” –Jack Crawford, The Silence Of The Lambs
54. “Our Billy wasn’t born a criminal, Clarice. He was made one through years of systematic abuse.” –Dr. Hannibal Lecter, The Silence Of The Lambs
55. “I have no plans to call on you, Clarice, the world being more interesting with you in it.” –Dr. Hannibal Lecter, The Silence Of The Lambs
56. “You’re very frank, Clarice. I think it would be quite something to know you in private life.” –Dr. Hannibal Lecter, The Silence Of The Lambs
57. “Well, Clarice. Have the lambs stopped screaming?” –Dr. Hannibal Lecter, The Silence Of The Lambs
58. “I would not have had that happen to you, discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.” –Dr. Hannibal Lecter, The Silence Of The Lambs
59. “Oh, Clarice. Your problem is you need to get more fun out of life.” –Dr. Hannibal Lecter, The Silence Of The Lambs
60. “I drink your blood, I eat your flesh.” –Dr. Hannibal Lecter, The Silence Of The Lambs
