70. Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter
      The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Novelist Thomas Harris may have created Hannibal Lecter, the brilliant psychiatrist with a taste for human flesh, but Hopkins, wearing a prison suit as if it were a tuxedo, immortalized him. His slithery “Goood evening, Claaarriiice.” That post–fava beans “ttthhpt.” If you close your eyes, you can hear Lecter’s voice—go ahead and shiver—described by Hopkins himself as a cross between Katharine Hepburn, Truman Capote, and HAL from 2001. Just as creepy is the way that Hopkins’s eyes never change—even when his character is beating a man to death.

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