The Silence of the Lambs
The Silence of the Lambs

[first lines]
FBI instructor: Starling! Starling! Crawford wants to see you in his office.
Clarice Starling: Thank you, sir.

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The Silence of the Lambs

Hannibal Lecter: [lights go on] Thank you, Barney.
Clarice Starling: Where are your drawings?
Hannibal Lecter: 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.

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The Silence of the Lambs

Hannibal Lecter: I would not have had that happen to you, discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.

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The Silence of the Lambs

Dr. Frederick Chilton: What you are doing, Miss Starling is coming into my hospital to conduct an interview, and refusing to share information with me, for the third time.
Clarice Starling: Sir, I told you, this is just a routine follow-up on the Raspail case.
Dr. Frederick Chilton: He is my patient. I have rights.

Clarice Starling: I understand that, Sir.
Dr. Frederick Chilton: Look, I am not just some turn-key, Miss Starling.

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The Silence of the Lambs

Hannibal Lecter: That is very slippery of you, Agent Starling.

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The Silence of the Lambs

Paul Krendler: Senator Martin's been on the line. Did you have a trainee make a kind of phoney deal with Lecter?
Jack Crawford: Yeah, I rolled the dice, I had to.
Paul Krendler: Well, she's mad as Hell, Jack.

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The Silence of the Lambs

Dr. Frederick Chilton: I keep him in here.
Clarice Starling: If Lecter thinks you're his enemy, maybe we'd have better luck if I went in by myself.
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.
[Chilton smiles]

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The Silence of the Lambs

FBI Director Hayden Burke: Jack, Hannibal Lecter's being transferred to Memphis.
Jack Crawford: Transferred?
FBI Director Hayden Burke: Did you have a trainee make some sort of phony offer in the Senator's name?
Jack Crawford: Yeah, I rolled the dice. I had to.
FBI Director Hayden

Burke: Well she's mad as hell, Jack. Paul Krendler's over here from Justice. She's asking him to take over in Memphis.

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The Silence of the Lambs

Clarice Starling: There's no correlation in the literature between transsexualism and violence. Transsexuals are very passive.
Hannibal Lecter: ...Billy is not a real transsexual. 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.