Criminal Minds Quotes
[JJ introduces Reid to Det. Castro as he clumsily drops everything he’s carrying.]
Det. Castro: A genius you said?
JJ: Yeah, uh, his coordination drops off when he’s thinking.
Det. Castro: A genius you said?
JJ: Yeah, uh, his coordination drops off when he’s thinking.
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[During the profile briefing]
Det. Castro: Okay, this scumbag has issues. We all get it. But why fire?
Reid: He's, uh, like a drug addict. Only fire's his drug, and each time an addict needs a fix, they need more of the drug to get off. So his crimes will most likely get much worse. Be, almost impossible for him to quit without help.
Hotch: Thank you very much.
Det. Castro: Okay, this scumbag has issues. We all get it. But why fire?
Reid: He's, uh, like a drug addict. Only fire's his drug, and each time an addict needs a fix, they need more of the drug to get off. So his crimes will most likely get much worse. Be, almost impossible for him to quit without help.
Hotch: Thank you very much.
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Garcia: Brace yourselves. I'm going to teach you the meaning of L.U.S.T.
Gideon: Did she say lust?
Garcia: Mm-hm. I cross-referenced every known fact on the victims and I just found a website that links both Dennis Cutler and Mathew Jarvis' companies on a list of businesses guilty of L.U.S.T.
Hotchner: I'm missing something.
Garcia: Leaking Underground Storage Tanks. The website belongs to a recently formed San Francisco chapter of the Earth Defense Front.
Gideon: Did she say lust?
Garcia: Mm-hm. I cross-referenced every known fact on the victims and I just found a website that links both Dennis Cutler and Mathew Jarvis' companies on a list of businesses guilty of L.U.S.T.
Hotchner: I'm missing something.
Garcia: Leaking Underground Storage Tanks. The website belongs to a recently formed San Francisco chapter of the Earth Defense Front.
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Gideon: When he arrives, bring the fake bodies right past us nice and slow. I want him to get a good look.
Lt. Vega: Remind me never to play poker with you guys.
Lt. Vega: Remind me never to play poker with you guys.
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Prentiss: All those people, no booze or music. That's either a very lame going away party, or an EDF meeting.
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Hotchner: I catch killers. I save lives. I'm a hero until my key hits my front door and then I'm just the father and the husband who's never there.
Gideon: Yeah I got that one.
Hotchner: Here's the thing. When I'm home, I'm in this silent panic because I know that I have to be as good as I can, as fast as I can because any minute the phone is gonna ring and my time is up.
Gideon: Yeah I got that one.
Hotchner: Here's the thing. When I'm home, I'm in this silent panic because I know that I have to be as good as I can, as fast as I can because any minute the phone is gonna ring and my time is up.
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Hotchner: Gandhi said, "Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever."
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Prentiss: An old Russian proverb reminds us, "There can be no good without evil."
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Reid: These tattoos are like books on their skin. It tells their whole life story.
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Arseny Lysowsky: [to Gideon and Reid] Would you like something to eat? This borscht is exquisite, it is my mother’s old country recipe.
Reid: Didn’t you forsake all your relatives when you swore the Thieves' Code?
Arseny Lysowsky: I didn’t forsake her recipes.
Reid: Didn’t you forsake all your relatives when you swore the Thieves' Code?
Arseny Lysowsky: I didn’t forsake her recipes.
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Ambassador Elizabeth Prentiss: How are you enjoying your assignment to the BAU?
Prentiss: Well, enjoying is an odd description.
Ambassador Elizabeth Prentiss: Is it?
Prentiss: We deal with some pretty horrible things.
Ambassador Elizabeth Prentiss: I thought that was where you wanted to be.
Prentiss: It is.
Ambassador Elizabeth Prentiss: Then you do enjoy it.
Prentiss: Well, enjoying is an odd description.
Ambassador Elizabeth Prentiss: Is it?
Prentiss: We deal with some pretty horrible things.
Ambassador Elizabeth Prentiss: I thought that was where you wanted to be.
Prentiss: It is.
Ambassador Elizabeth Prentiss: Then you do enjoy it.
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Anton Gorban: I mind my own business.
Gideon: You've been watching us since we got here.
Gideon: You've been watching us since we got here.
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Garcia: [answering phone] Your friendly neighborhood Oracle of all things knowable and unknowable at your service.
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Garcia: [regarding Lysowsky] He served 23 years in four remote prisons at Perm, that is a remote region of the Northern Ural Mountains, for those of you playing the home game.
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Reid: They didn't wait?
Gideon: They cut off his ear. They increased the ransom and left a note.
Reid: How much money do they think they have?
Gideon: They cut off his ear. They increased the ransom and left a note.
Reid: How much money do they think they have?
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SSA Josh Kramer: [to Gideon regarding the lack of statement from the victims] Cause we're dealing with criminals.
Reid: Obviously.
SSA Josh Kramer: Not just the kidnappers, genius.
Reid: Obviously.
SSA Josh Kramer: Not just the kidnappers, genius.
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Prentiss: "Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." -Leo Tolstoy.
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Prentiss: [in a bar, acting very excited] Ladies, this is Brad – a real FBI agent!
Garcia: Really?
Prentiss: Really!
JJ: No way!
Garcia: That's exciting! What's it like at Quan-ti-co?
Garcia: Really?
Prentiss: Really!
JJ: No way!
Garcia: That's exciting! What's it like at Quan-ti-co?
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JJ: Must be tough keeping all those secrets.
Brad: It’s a skill, like anything else. Carpenters are good at building stuff, measuring. The FBI’s good at keeping secrets and kicking criminal ass.
Brad: It’s a skill, like anything else. Carpenters are good at building stuff, measuring. The FBI’s good at keeping secrets and kicking criminal ass.
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Prentiss: Can we see it?
Brad: See what?
Prentiss: Your badge.
Garcia: Please?
Brad: Sorry, that's...
Prentiss, JJ, Garcia together: Classified
Prentiss: [she holds up her badge] Tell me Brad, does it look anything like this?
JJ: [hold up hers] Or this?
Garcia: [holds up hers] Or maybe, this?
[Brad hurries away]
Brad: See what?
Prentiss: Your badge.
Garcia: Please?
Brad: Sorry, that's...
Prentiss, JJ, Garcia together: Classified
Prentiss: [she holds up her badge] Tell me Brad, does it look anything like this?
JJ: [hold up hers] Or this?
Garcia: [holds up hers] Or maybe, this?
[Brad hurries away]
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Prentiss: The British historian James Anthony Froude once said, "Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself."
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Hotchner: "Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms made of the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed." -Herman Melville.
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Morgan: [to Mona, a homeless woman] Be careful, you hear me? This world needs all of its beautiful ladies, and that means you, too, momma.
[Mona smiles and walks away]
Emily: You’re a good guy.
Morgan: Ya think?
Emily: Yeah, you make the people around you feel good.
[Mona smiles and walks away]
Emily: You’re a good guy.
Morgan: Ya think?
Emily: Yeah, you make the people around you feel good.
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Hotchner: You have Chaplin on film?
Gideon: My great-granddad was an accountant at one of the first movie studios.
Hotchner: He was in California?
Gideon: No no no, Chicago. Essanay Studios closed, 1920. Back then four out of five movies made in the U.S. were made in Chicago. They closed down, they let my grandpa take, ehh, a couple of extra prints home.
Hotchner: [amused] They let him?
Gideon: [laughing] Well, that’s the family story... we’re sticking to it.
Gideon: My great-granddad was an accountant at one of the first movie studios.
Hotchner: He was in California?
Gideon: No no no, Chicago. Essanay Studios closed, 1920. Back then four out of five movies made in the U.S. were made in Chicago. They closed down, they let my grandpa take, ehh, a couple of extra prints home.
Hotchner: [amused] They let him?
Gideon: [laughing] Well, that’s the family story... we’re sticking to it.
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Reid: You see, the word "coincidence" implies more...
Morgan: Hey! Hey, kid. We do not need a vocabulary lesson right now.
Reid: Right. Sorry.
Morgan: Hey! Hey, kid. We do not need a vocabulary lesson right now.
Reid: Right. Sorry.
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Morgan: What did you guys get?
Hotch: Well, Reid got propositions from every prostitute we talked to, but we didn't find anybody who thinks they've seen the unsub.
Hotch: Well, Reid got propositions from every prostitute we talked to, but we didn't find anybody who thinks they've seen the unsub.
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Hotch: "Nothing is permanent in this wicked world— not even our troubles." -Charles Chaplin.
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