Julianne Moore: Clarice Starling

Hannibal

Clarice Starling

Hannibal Lecter: Tell me Clarice, would you ever say to me "Stop. If you loved me, you'd stop"?
Clarice Starling: Not in a thousand years.
Hannibal Lecter: "Not in a thousand years"... That's my girl.

Clarice Starling: I wasn't speaking to you, Mr. Krendler. When I speak to you, you'll know it because I'll look at you.

Mason Verger: Isn't it funny?
Clarice Starling: What's that?
Mason Verger: You can look at my face, but you shied when I said the name of God.

Barney: Do you ever think he might come after you? You ever think about him at all?
Clarice Starling: Well, at least thirty seconds of every day. I can't help it. He's always with me, like a bad habit.

Clarice Starling: Your profile at the border stations has five features. I'll trade you...
Hannibal Lecter: "Trade"?
Clarice Starling: Stop now and I'll tell you what they are.
Hannibal Lecter: How does that word taste to you, Clarice? Hmm? Cheap and metallic, like sucking on a greasy coin?

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.

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.

Hannibal Lecter: What if I did it for you?
Clarice Starling: Did what?
Hannibal Lecter: Harmed them, Clarice. The ones who've harmed you. What if I made them scream apologies? No, I shouldn't even say it because you'll feel - with your perfect grasp on right and wrong - that you were somehow accompli- even though you wouldn't be.

Clarice Starling: All right, everyone, pay attention. Here's the layout...
Officer Bolton: Excuse me? I'm Officer Bolton, DC Police.
Clarice Starling: Yes, I can see that from your uniform and badge, how do you do?
Officer Bolton: I'm in charge here.
Clarice Starling: You are?
Officer Bolton: Yes, ma'am.
Clarice Starling: Officer Bolton, I'm Special Agent Starling, and just so we don't get off on the wrong foot, let me explain why we're all here. I'm here because I know Evelda Drumgo, I've arrested her twice on RICO warrants, I know how she thinks. DEA and BATF, in addition to backing me up, are here for the drugs and weapons. You're here - and it's the only reason you're here - because our mayor wants to appear tough on drugs, especially after his own cocaine conviction, and thinks he can accomplish that by the mere fact of having you tag along with us.
Officer Bolton: You got a smart mouth, lady.

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

Clarice Starling: Aren't you curious why he dines on his victims?
Paul Krendler: And what's the point of that? What, are you writing a book or you catching a crook?
Clarice Starling: To show his contempt for those who exasperate him. Or sometimes to perform a public service. In the case of the flutist Benjamin Raspail, he did it to improve the sound of the Baltimore Philharmonic orchestra.

Clarice Starling: How did he end up at your house?
Mason Verger: I invited him of course... to my pied-à-terre. I came to the door in my nicest come-hither outfit. I was concerned... that he'd be afraid of me. But he didn't seem to be. Afraid of me. That's almost funny now.

Clarice Starling: Las Vegas would be the last pace he'd be. It'd be an assault on his sense of taste.

Clarice Starling: So when you turned Dr. Lecter over to the Tennessee police...
Barney: They weren't civil to him. They're all dead now.
Clarice Starling: Yeah, they only survived his company three days. You survived him six years at the asylum. How'd you do that? It wasn't just being civil.
Barney: Yes, it was.