“A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.”

Anthony Hopkins delivers this line in "The Silence of the Lambs," which was the third film to win the "big five" Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay). The line was chilling enough as it was written, but Hopkins improvised a slurping noise that made the scene.

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