Hannibal Quotes

‘Hannibal‘ is not reality; the whole show is not reality. It’s heightened reality: they want music the entire time.

I think people feel threatened by homosexuality. The problem isn’t about gay people, the problem is about the attitude towards gay people. People think that all gays are Hannibal Lecters. But gay people are sons and daughters, politicians and doctors, American heroes and daughters of American heroes.

Sertorius was far from being strong enough to renew the gigantic enterprise of Hannibal. He was lost if he left Spain, where all his successes were bound up with the peculiarities of the country and the people; and even there, he was more and more compelled to renounce the offensive.

Hannibal Lecter stole Leatherface’s mask and ported the slasher conventions into the thriller for the early ’90s.

My dad named me after Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who attacked Rome. But nobody knows about him.

The one fiction show I watch is ‘Hannibal.’ I love it!

My favorite movie villain? Oh, that’s easy. Hannibal Lecter.

I’ve put a lot of records out and a lot of soundtracks, and ‘Hannibal’ is kind of a special one.

It’s funny – almost every comedian that I started out with moved to L.A., except for my two friends Hannibal Buress and Amy Schumer. And my two friends that are doing the best in comedy, the most successful friends I have, are Hannibal Buress and Amy Schumer.

The places we’d play were full of bikers, brawlers, and drinkers coming off a day of work looking for a good time, and all these guys would be looking at me like Hannibal Lecter looking at his next victim.

After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon.

I’m in awful shape. I’m trying to get in better shape. My girlfriend, she‘s in good shape. She gives me health tips sometimes, like, ‘Hannibal, you‘re going to die.’ Stuff like that.

I went see the horror thriller, Hannibal. I am a massive fan of Anthony Hopkins. He is superb in the film.

People are fascinated by evil because it’s mysterious and it doesn’t seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you say that Hannibal Lector was abducted as a child and he had to eat his sister or something like that, it becomes immediately mundane. The character becomes mundane.

I always liked the stress, the real high-stakes, get-the-orders-out line-cook job, as well as the ordering of the produce and everything – it’s really similar to making music for a show like ‘Hannibal.’ It’s like cooking; it’s just like owning a restaurant.

In the ’90s, comedy was at a very low point, but these days, you’ve got people like Hannibal Burress, Ron Funches, Maria Bamford – people who can play any club, anywhere.

One whom the infernal gods of Hannibal will cause to be reborn, terror of mankind; never more horror nor worse days in the past than will come to the Romans through Babel.

I was looking to become more proactive with my career because I wasn’t crazy with some of the scripts I was getting – this was before Blow and Hannibal – so I decided to start my own production company.

I felt, selfishly, that if there was going to be a TV show about ‘Hannibal Lecter’ whether I was going to be involved or not, I’d rather be involved. I wanted to make sure it was something I wanted to watch.

I love the opportunity to use my full range, and so playing in the comedy ‘Black-ish’ gives me the opportunity to show my lighter side, and playing in this beautiful, elegant horror story of ‘Hannibal,’ I get to use my darker and more cerebral side. It’s really wonderful.

Hannibal Burress is my polar opposite in energy. I can be crazy, and he grounds the ‘Eric Andre Show.’

These scenes deal with what happened before Hannibal Lecter was captured for the first time.

Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders of all time, such as Alexander the Great, Pericles of Athens, Hannibal of Carthage, and Julius Caesar of Rome, were all pagans, or else living in a pagan society.

Hannibal Buress keeps popping up. His delivery cracks me up. He’s smart and funny.

My favorite movie of all time is ‘The Silence of the Lambs.’ I think Hannibal Lecter is the scariest movie monster ever because he’s smarter than you are.

I support the homies, like Mike Jay and Hannibal Buress. And I listen to Comedy Central Radio in the car.

I’m incredibly proud of ‘Hannibal’ and the cast – I feel like we’re doing really good television.

I was chosen for ‘Wolverine’ because there weren’t any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With ‘Batman v Superman‘ and ‘Hannibal,’ I got the roles as a result of previous work I’d done, not just because of my nationality.

I love doing the nighttime soap, the emotional, psychological, hard stuff that I got to tackle on ‘Hannibal.’

With ‘Hannibal,’ it’s like reactive scoring so I don’t get ahead. I don’t read a script; I don’t want to know what’s going to happen until its happening in front of me and I’m able to have an instrument in my hands that I’m playing to make some kind of a map, some sort of tonal map, that I can then build on.