Psychological Profiling Quotes

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

Bluebeard, who said to Scottland Yard, How do I know how many wives I've killed? I'm not an accountant! Never got a dinner!

What the advertiser needs to know is not what is right about the product but what is wrong about the buyer.

While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.

Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

If you take a little time and watch forensics, and see what men, sick-minded men do ... I don't know whether it's wise for women to feed the sickness that's in the man.

Signatures of all things I am here to read.

What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers

I'll have to put more earrings on. I bet that someone could analyze me and tell my condition by my earrings.

Some nutter's gone and pulled a Jack the Ripper.

He said, Son, I've made a life out of readin' people's faces, and knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.

Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men's hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression 'structureless germs'.

Why is it you assholes always feel the need to tell the media your evil plans before you kill us?” asked Becks. “Is it a union requirement or something?

Every chick I try to intimidate in a different way. You have to think about their personality. You have to think about what would get under that particular person's skin the most.

I tend to come from a more psychological - that's sort of my passion. I'm interested in the psychology of politics as well - and obviously I'm interested in what's going on in the world - but my passion is more the psychology of people.

The day will probably come when you can tell everything about a person from his dreams except his age and weight.

I have many friends in Special Forces, and the amazing thing about these guys is how quickly they can read someone.

All one's personality is embedded in gloves and hats after they've been good and used. Show me a glove and I'll tell you the character of its owner.

When I'm playing a serial killer, I'm in it. I'm not judging him. I'm not judging his environment. I'm just looking for the why. Why is he the way he is? But, there's no doubt that, if you're a good actor, you're going to take this stuff home with you.

Trying to prove you’re not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you’re not mentally ill,’ said Tony.

I believe that anyone who wants to stand in a national election should receive a course of psychotherapy. Completing the course should be a qualification for office. This wouldn't change the behaviour of psychopaths, but it might prevent some people who exercise power from imposing their own deep wounds on others.

Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief.

I hate the murderer, love him murdered.