All Quotes

"[Before destroying merchandise in a Korean drug store] I'm rolling prices back to 1965! What do you think of that?"

"[ Foster approaches the gang after they crashed] You missed. [picks up the UZI and shoots, barely missing the only survivor] I missed too. [the survivor begs for mercy; Foster shoots him in the leg] You see, that's the concept. Take some shooting lessons, asshole."

"God bless the working stiff!"

"Why have you put barbed wire on a fence? Is this how you rich people amuse yourselves? You put barbed wire on the fence so innocent people like me can hurt our hands looking in, huh?"

"I lost my job. Actually I didn't lose it. It lost me. I'm overeducated, underskilled. Maybe it's the other way around. I forget, but I'm obsolete. I'm not economically viable. I can't even support my own kid."

"I've passed the point of no return, Beth. You know when that is? That's the point in a journey where it's longer to go back to the beginning than it is to continue to the end. It's like...Do you remember when those astronauts got in trouble when they were going to the moon and something went wrong? I don't know, somebody screwed up and they had to get them back to Earth, but they had passed the point of no return. So, they had to go all the way around the moon to get back, and they were out of contact for hours. Everybody waited breathlessly to see if a bunch of dead guys in a can would pop out the other side, and that's me. I'm on the other side of the moon now, out of contact, and everybody's just going to have to wait until I pop out."

"Did you know, Beth, in certain South American countries it's still legal to kill your wife if she insults you?"

"Is that what this is about? You're angry because you got lied to? Is that why my chicken dinner is drying out in the oven? Hey, they lie to everybody. They lie to the fish! But that doesn't give you any special right to do what you did today."

"A Tale Of Urban Reality."

"The adventures of an ordinary man at war with the everyday world."

"Michael Douglas - William Foster"

"Robert Duvall - Sgt. Martin Prendergast"

"Barbara Hershey - Elizabeth Tavino"

"Rachel Ticotin - Det. Sandra Torres"

"Tuesday Weld - Amanda Prendergast"

"Frederic Forrest - Nick, the army surplus store owner"

"Lois Smith - William Foster's mother"

"Joey Hope Singer - Adele Foster-Tavino"

"Michael Paul Chan - Mr. Lee, the convenience store owner"

"Raymond J. Barry - Capt. William Yardley"

"D. W. Moffett - Det. Lydecker"

"Steve Park - Detective Brian"

"Karina Arroyave - Angie"

"Brent Hinkley - Rick"

"Dedee Pfeiffer - Sheila Folsom"

"[to Barney, on a recording from his imprisonment] There are shallow rollers, and there are deep rollers. You can't breed two deep rollers... or their young, their offspring, will roll all the way down, hit, and die. Agent Starling is a deep roller, Barney. Let us hope one of her parents was not."

"What is worst about this humiliation, Clarice? Is it how your failure will reflect on your mommy and daddy? Is your worst fear that people will now and forever believe they were indeed just good old trailer-camp, tornado-bait white trash, and that perhaps you are too?"

"[in a letter to Clarice Starling] Dear Clarice, I have followed with enthusiasm the course of your disgrace and public shaming. My own never bothered me, except for the inconvenience of being incarcerated, but you may lack perspective."

"[in a letter to Clarice Starling] By the way I couldn't help noticing on the FBI's rather dull public website that I have been hoisted from the Bureau's archives of the common criminal and elevated to the more prestigious 10 Most Wanted list. Is this coincidence, or are you back on the case? If so, goody goody, cause I need to come out of retirement and return to public life."

"[in a letter to Clarice Starling] Your job is to craft my doom... so I'm not sure how well I should wish you... but I'm sure we'll have a lot of fun. Ta-ta. "H.""

"Could he daily feel a stab of hunger for her, and find nourishment in the very sight of her? I think so. But would she see through the bars of his plight and ache for him?"

"My life? What is there to say about mine? I have been in a state of hibernation for some time... a little inactive. But now I'm back home and I'm very happy, and very healthy. You, though. It's you I'm worried about."

"Do you have so much faith in your abilities that you honestly believe you can somehow simultaneously arrest me and them? It could get very messy, Clarice, like the fish market."

"[repeated line] Okey-dokey, here we go."

"My freedom, just that. You'd take that from me. And if you did, would they have you back, do you think? The FBI? Those people you despise almost as much as they despise you? Will they give you a medal, Clarice, do you think? Would you have it professionally framed and hang it on your wall to look at and remind you of your courage and incorruptibility? All you would need for that, Clarice, is a mirror."

"[to Rinaldo Pazzi] On a related subject, I must confess to you, I'm giving very serious thought... to eating your wife."

"[to Rinaldo Pazzi] Please don't be confused—because I may have to fillet Signora Pazzi after all."

"[about Dr. Lecter] He's always with me. Like a bad habit."

"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."

"It's all right. I have immunity from the U.S. Attorney. And I have immunity... from the risen Jesus. And nobody beats the Riz."

"[to Clarice] Isn't it funny? You can look at my face... but you shied when I said the name of God."

"When the fox hears the rabbit scream, he comes a-runnin'... but not to help."

"Break The Silence"

"Never Forget Who He Is"

"How long can a man stay silent before he returns to what he does best?"

"Anthony Hopkins - Hannibal Lecter"

"Julianne Moore - Clarice Starling"

"Gary Oldman - Mason Verger"

"Ray Liotta - Paul Krendler"

"Giancarlo Giannini - Inspector Pazzi"