Quote by Thomas Harris

Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer.

— Thomas Harris

A bacteriologist is a man whose conversation always start with the germ of an idea.

— Evan Esar

I thought I did play one villain, Hitler, [who is] like Lecter in some ways, but he's a mythical figure, anyway.

— Anthony Hopkins

I found, and find, the scrutiny of Dr. Lecter uncomfortable, intrusive, like the humming of your thoughts when they x-ray your head.

— Thomas Harris

It was so easy for me to see that Anthony would be a superb Dr. Lecter because he had been such an amazing good…

— Jonathan Demme

A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like…

— W. H. Auden

Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid.

— Erica Jong

The physiologist is not a man of the world, he is a scientist, a man caught and absorbed by a scientific idea that he…

— Claude Bernard

His specialty was interrogation. Imagine it, gentlemen. Being strapped to a table so that you are entirely at the mercy of a monster such…

— Jonathan Maberry

Somewhere in the world is...The world's worst doctor and he could be yours.

— Steve Martin

It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the…

— Antonin Artaud

There was a time when I believed in the persuadability of man, and had the mania of man-mending. Experience has taught me better. The…

— Robert Southey