Hannibal Lecter quotes from Hannibal

Alana Bloom

I want to go on record as saying that this is a very bad idea. Hannibal?

Hannibal Lecter

Jack has the look of a man with no interest in any opinion but his own.

Hannibal Lecter

Do you feel alive, Will?

Will Graham

I feel like I'm fading.

What do you smell on me?

Hannibal Lecter

Opportunity.

Jack Crawford

I had eight college girls dead in Minnesota. Will caught their killer for me.

Hannibal Lecter

He also caught their killer's disease.

Hannibal Lecter

(regarding an unresponsive Will) He's had a mild seizure.

Abel Gideon

That... doesn't seem to bother you.

Hannibal Lecter

I said it was mild. Are you the man who claimed to be the Chesapeake Ripper?

Abel Gideon

Why do you say claimed?

Hannibal Lecter

Because you're not. You know you're not, and you don't know much more about who you are beyond that.

Abel Gideon

Are you the Ripper?

Hannibal Lecter

Terrible thing, to have your identity taken away.

Abel Gideon

Well, I'm taking it back. One piece at a time.

Bedelia du Maurier

You have to maintain boundaries, Hannibal.

Hannibal Lecter

When the pressures of my personal and professional relationships with Will grow too great, I assure you I'll find a way to relieve them.

Abigail Hobbs

Did Will really kill Marissa?

Hannibal Lecter

They will believe he did. They will believe he killed others, too.

Abigail Hobbs

[realizing] Will always said that whoever called the house that day was the serial killer. [pause] Why did you really call?

Hannibal Lecter

I wanted to warn your father that Will Graham was coming for him.

Abigail Hobbs

Why?

Hannibal Lecter

I was curious what would happen. I was curious what would happen when I killed Marissa. I was curious what you would do.

Abigail Hobbs

You wanted me to kill Nick Boyle.

Hannibal Lecter

I was hoping. I wanted to see how much like your father you were.

Abigail Hobbs

[horrified] Oh my God...

Hannibal Lecter

Nicholas Boyle is more important for you gutting him. He changed you, Abigail. That's more important than the life he clamored after.

Abigail Hobbs

How many people have you killed?

Hannibal Lecter

[taking her hand] Many more people than your father.

Abigail Hobbs

[afraid] Are you going to kill me?

Hannibal Lecter

Perhaps you didn't come here looking for a killer. Perhaps you came here to find yourself. You killed a man in this very room.

Will Graham

I stared at Hobbs and the space opposite me assumed the shape of a man filled with dark and swarming flies. And then I scattered them.

Hannibal Lecter

At a time when other men fear their isolation, yours has become understandable to you. You are alone because you are unique.

Will Graham

I'm as alone as you are.

Hannibal Lecter

If you followed the urges you kept down for so long, cultivated them as the inspirations they are, you would have become someone other than yourself.

Will Graham

I know who I am. I'm not so sure I know who you are anymore.

Hannibal Lecter

Are you a killer, Will? You. Right now. This man standing in front of me. Is this who you really are?

Will Graham

I am who I've always been. The scales have just fallen from my eyes. I can see you now.

Hannibal Lecter

You said it felt good to kill Garret Jacob Hobbs. Would it feel good to kill me now?

Will Graham

Garret Jacob Hobbs was a murderer. Are you a murderer, Doctor Lecter?

Hannibal Lecter

What reason would I have?

Will Graham

You, you have no traceable motive... Which is why you were so hard to see. You were just curious what I would do. Someone like me. Someone who thinks how I think. Wind him up and watch him go. And apparently, Dr. Lecter, this is how I go.

Hannibal Lecter

Kaiseki. A Japanese art form that honors the taste and aesthetic of what we eat.

Jack Crawford

I almost feel guilty about eating it.

Hannibal Lecter

I never feel guilty eating anything.

Hannibal Lecter

We can't define Will only by his maddest edges.

Jack Crawford

We can't define Will at all.

Hannibal Lecter

Friendship can sometimes involve a breach of individual separateness.

Will Graham

You're not my friend. The light from friendship won’t reach us for a million years. That’s how far away from friendship we are.

Hannibal Lecter

I imagine it's easier to believe I am responsible for those murders than it is to accept that you are.

Will Graham

Sure is.

Hannibal Lecter

What exactly am I guilty of?

Bedelia Du Maurier

Exactly, I cannot say. I've had to draw a conclusion based on what I glimpsed through the stitching of the person suit that you wear. And the conclusion that I've drawn is that you are dangerous.

Jack Crawford

I've given my life to death.

Hannibal Lecter

And now death has followed you home, come to live in your house.

Jack Crawford

Bella has kept our bedroom from looking too much like a sick room. There are flowers, but not too many, you know. She insists that there are no pills in sight. So I've been thinking about taking her to Italy where we met. We could ... she could die there.