Mason Verger quotes from Hannibal

Margot would love to stick a knife into me - and it wouldn't be to test the thickness of my skin.

You're going to be having some trouble with your lady parts, Margot. I'm afraid the only one you'll be celebrating Mother's Day with... is me.

[to Alana about Hannibal] He likes music, he likes wine, he likes food, and he likes you. How do you taste, Dr. Bloom? Sweet, I bet. I bet you got a taste of him, too. Spitters are quitters, and you don't strike me as a quitter.

[to a captured Will and Hannibal] Gentlemen, welcome to Muskrat Farms.

Do you have a sister, Dr. Lecter?

Hannibal Lecter

I had a sister.

Then you understand my need to protect Margot, mostly from herself. She's pathological. I'm sure she's told you horrible things that I've done.

Hannibal Lecter

I can't tell you what Margot's confessed to me. Fortunately for you, I can't tell anyone.

[laughing] You got me.

You must be the baby daddy. Excuse me if I don't offer you a cigar.

[laughing] I'm going to feed you to my pigs. Carlo!

Will Graham

Do you think it was Margot's idea to have an heir? Do you think it was your idea to take it from her? My idea to come here and kill you? The only thing that you, your sister and I have in common is the same psychiatrist.

Will Graham

If Dr. Lecter had his druthers, you'd be wrapped around a bullet right now. Dr. Lecter's the one you want to be feeding to your pigs.

I'm hungry.

Hannibal Lecter

Eat your nose, then.

Eat my... eat my nose...

I have a taste and consistency that's similar to that of a chicken gizzard!

Hannibal Lecter

[to Will] Taste is housed in parts of the mind that perceive pity. Pity has no place at the table.

[burps] I'm full of myself. [laughs]

Jack Crawford

I don't want to take up too much of your time, Mr. Verger. I realize that you probably need to get your rest, but I would like to ask you just a few questions about what happened to you.

Took a tumble in the pig pen. Broke my neck. Embarrassing, really. Clumsy, clumsy, clumsy. If my sister hadn't found me, the pigs would have eaten more than my face.

Jack Crawford

Pigs did this to you?

Oh, yes. The pigs certainly did.

Jack Crawford

Mr. Verger, you are a patient of Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Is that right?

Dr. Lecter, yes. Yes.

Jack Crawford

Have you ever seen or met another patient of Dr. Lecter's, a man called Will Graham?

Will Graham. The man that didn't kill all those people? That Will Graham?

Jack Crawford

Yes.

Can't say that I've had the pleasure.

Jack Crawford

Do you find that Dr. Lecter's therapy has been helpful to you?

I've benefited greatly from Dr. Lecter's therapy. I'm still benefiting from it. I will always be grateful for how he's helped me. I only hope that I may repay him one day.

Is it time to talk about what Margot wants?

What Margot wants is to take care of you, Mason. Just as you took care of me.

You know, I thank God for what happened. It was my salvation. Have you accepted Jesus, Dr. Bloom? Do you have faith?

Alana Bloom

I was raised in a religious atmosphere, Mr. Verger, but whatever that left me with, it's not religion.

It left me with more. You see, I'm free now. I'm right with the Risen Jesus, and it's all okay now. And nobody beats the Riz. [winks] He will rise me up and smite mine enemies, and I will hear the lamentations of their women. That was once you, I'm told. Dr. Lecter got deeper inside you than he did any of us.

Cordell, I have known you to be absolutely reliable and capable of almost anything, is that true?

Cordell Doemling

It is not untrue.

I pay you a large salary to be responsible for my care and feeding.

Cordell Doemling

And all that that entails.

[chuckles] "And all that that entails." I would like you to begin arrangements for Dr. Hannibal Lecter to be eaten alive.

Cordell Doemling

Do you have a preference for how you would like him prepared?

Oh, Cordell. If I had lips, I'd smile.

Cordell Doemling

Hands are how we touch the world. They're tactile. Remove a patient's arm and he will still feel phantom digits. Imagine how Dr. Lecter will feel when he watches you nibble on his fingers.

Oh, poetry, Cordell, poetry!

I'm taking what you promised me, and I've got everything I need from you now.

You can't kill me, Margot. You'll lose everything. In the absence of an heir, the sole beneficiary is the Southern Baptist Church.

But there is going to be an heir, Mason. A Verger baby. Yours, mine... mostly yours.

Alana Bloom

You know what happens if we stimulate your prostate with a cattle prod? Hannibal does. He helped us milk you.

You're dead, Dr. Bloom!

Alana Bloom

Oh, Mason. We all are. Didn't you know that? [holds up a vial of his sperm] But these aren't.