Top 100 Quotes About Dexter
#1. We pitched 'Sightseers' as a TV idea originally, and it was rejected because it was too dark. But then things like 'Dexter' came out, 'Breaking Bad' ... There are so many sophisticated dramas now with comic elements to them.
Alice Lowe
#2. Detective, I don't know where the boyfriend is, really, I said. And it was true, considering tide, current, and the habits of marine scavengers. -Dexter
Jeff Lindsay
#4. I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon.
Catherine Astolfo
#5. I see Ethan Dexter; he shines for me. And I burn hotter than the sun when I'm in his orbit.
Kristen Callihan
#6. It was a tremendous stroke of good luck that the show got Michael C. Hall to play the part. Everyone I've talked to thinks Michael is a perfect 'Dexter,' which never happens.
Jeff Lindsay
#7. If you can't explain it better leave it... (Dexter Season 2....)
Deyth Banger
#8. You just see a good project and want to be involved in it, and that's what 'Dexter' was.
David Zayas
#9. Sometimes shows get into their 5th and 6th season and you're like, where can you go? But 'Dexter' is still so strong, it's really refreshing.
Brea Grant
#10. In rare moments of self-doubt, Dexter had once worried that a lack of intellect might hold him back in life, but here was a job where confidence, energy, perhaps even a certain arrogance were all that mattered, all qualities that lay within his grasp.
David Nicholls
#11. I rose to my knees, mouth dry and heart pounding, and paused to finger a rip in my beautiful Dacron bowling shirt. I pushed my fingertip through the hole and wiggled it at myself. Hello, Dexter, where are you going? Hello, Mr. Finger. I don't know, but I'm almost there. I hear my friends calling.
Jeff Lindsay
#12. And once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind
David Nicholls
#13. I was expecting someone dark to play 'Dexter' - someone like Johnny Depp.
Jeff Lindsay
#15. It's always me, isn't it? I'm not really a very nice person, but for some reason it's always me that they come to with their problems.Oh, Dexter, a savage inhuman monster has taken my boyfriend! Well damn it, I'm a savage inhuman monster, too - didn't that entitle me to some rest?
Jeff Lindsay
#16. 'Dexter' has been very, very good to me. I would rather stop doing it than cheapen it.
Jeff Lindsay
#17. What's the gun for? (Leta) I would lie and say it's for bears or snakes, but mostly I use it for trespassers. (Aiden) Wow, Dexter, I'm impressed. Since we're not in Miami and you haven't a boat to hide the hacked-up bodies at sea, where are you keeping them? (Leta)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#18. My fantasy is, if I wasn't on 'Dexter,' I would move my family to London and work for the BBC on 'Doctor Who.'
Manny Coto
#19. Secrets... Dexter a perfect example what... can happen with secrets.
Deyth Banger
#20. Sometimes goes easier... others... goes wrong. But that's world!
(Dexter)
Deyth Banger
#21. You should visit the Palatine. It's at the top of that hill ... "
"I know where the Palatine is, Dexter, I was visiting Rome before you were born."
"Yes, who was emperor back then?
David Nicholls
#22. I'm always curious how we sometimes have a different point of view when it comes to justice. And that's why people root for 'Dexter.'
Erik King
#23. Quirky, funny, happy-go-lucky dead inside Dexter. No longer Dexter with the knife, Dexter the Avenger. Not until next time.
Jeff Lindsay
#25. With 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter,' we as a group of writers had to take a rather thin novel and spread it out over the course of 12 episodes, and not only 12 episodes, but lay in story for everyone that's going to take you through five years.
Melissa Rosenberg
#26. 'Dexter' is a very well-oiled machine; it's just a great show and great to be part of.
Roald Dahl
#27. Serial killer aren't creative."
"Watch a little Dexter and get back to me on that.
Cath Crowley
#28. I'm always excited to work and excited to be on a show as good as 'Dexter,' for sure.
Brea Grant
#29. There is some kind of message..., in Dexter criminal series. Just try to find it and focus.
Deyth Banger
#30. I enjoy the TV series 'Dexter,' where there's a reason for every kill. Quentin Tarantino is a favourite, and a 'Kill Bill' action-packed movie would be up my street. I'd love to be India's first scream queen!
Bipasha Basu
#31. I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
Warren Buffett
#32. Removing memories is difficult.... changing is easy...
- Dexter
Deyth Banger
#33. He things we think he's a double agent, working for them but secretly working for us. He doesn't know we know he's a triple agent, working for them but secretly working for us but really he's secretly working for them. Dexter, how's your brain?"
"Hurting.
Derek Landy
#34. You just never know what the grand plan is on 'Dexter,' so I didn't know if I was going to make it to the next episode, let alone the next season!
David Ramsey
#35. Now I know the truth. Ethan's love won't fix me. I have to do that myself. So, no, his love isn't the cure. But it is something to live for. Without him, I might not want to fix myself. Ethan Dexter makes me want to be a better person. To be brave.
Kristen Callihan
#36. He hands me his shopping list and I lead him through the store in search of the items. Duct tape? Plastic wrap? A hacksaw? Who is this guy, Dexter?
Andrew Shaffer
#37. Close and Close... and close and close and close cases - Very Helpful - THat's "Now" - Dexter.
Deyth Banger
#38. I'm quite sure more people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake all of it.
Dexter
Jeff Lindsay
#39. I would kill to be on 'Dexter,' and I would double kill to be on 'True Blood.' I would pay them to let me come be a vampire or a vampire victim. No joke!
Callie Thorne
#40. I see that,' I said. I thought I did. 'But every case is different. And anyway, you can't learn from other people's mistakes.'
'Not unless you're very clever,' said Dexter sadly.
Tania Kindersley
#41. Maybe I'm a little biased, but shows like 'Dexter' and 'Southland,' I'm just enthralled by that sort of storytelling, kind of clever and patient.
Shawn Hatosy
#42. Dexter is modest, even self-effacing, and certainly aware of the limits of his considerable talent. But if there was a limit to what I could discover on the computer, I had not found it yet. I sat back down and went to work.
Jeff Lindsay
#43. Dexter Blake liked a woman with some junk in her trunk. And the tall, curvy chick on the sidelines was packing a whole lot of booty.
She had one of those itty-bitty waists, too. And her cups floweth'd over.
Staring at her chest was practically a religious experience.
Amy Andrews
#44. 'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that.
Sam Neill
#45. Don't you give me no rotten tomato," Dexter sang, "just 'cause to your crazy shit I
cannot relate-o.
Sarah Dessen
#46. That friend of hers has got to go, though. You're lucky you got stuck with that Dexter guy instead of her.'
'Yeah, but that Dexter couldn't shut his piehole either,' Marlon says. 'I mean, Christ. Artists and writers - let them kill each other off in cage matches; let God sort 'em out.
Dexter Palmer
#47. There is a simple, logical explanation,' I said to myself. And because you never know who else is listening, I added, 'And there is nothing under the bed.'
Dexter
Jeff Lindsay
#48. Oh, my, god, we are in a killing room. This is just like an episode of Dexter! They are going to murder us! Mia exclaimed as she started to cry.
Andrea Heltsley
#49. I have been a fan of Dexter since the pilot. Once I got the audition I just squealed, and you would have thought I just won 45 million dollars.
Aimee Garcia
#50. I usually spend the hiatus of 'Dexter' in New York in a way to balance things.
Jennifer Carpenter
#51. It's like everyone has a central dilemma in their life, and mine was can you be in a committed, mature, loving adult relationship and still get invited to threesomes? - Dexter Mayhew
David Nicholls
#52. Probably, after all we could say that life is like Dexter... a code... and how good can you work with it?
Deyth Banger
#53. Oh, fucking expression, attention and impression!
(Dexter)
Deyth Banger
#54. Watching your moves is like going 24/7 in one room out of freedom just watching when you are going to break your psychic.
(Dexter on Season 7)
Deyth Banger
#55. I really love 'Dexter.' I'd like to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' or 'Breaking Bad.'
Melinda McGraw
#56. I love HBO and Showtime, especially Showtime. I'm a huge 'Dexter' fan, and I love 'Weeds.' That would be cool to do a recurring role on a show like that.
Aly Michalka
#57. Better somebody like Dexter a guy who doesn't need a warn... for killing... he just goes shows the victims and kills...
Deyth Banger
#58. For what it's worth, I enjoy 'Dexter,' 'Modern Family,' 'True Blood' and 'Breaking Bad.' I've enjoyed the wonderful 'The Pacific.'
Kenneth Branagh
#59. We have an agreement," she explained. "I watch nothing to do with a hobbit, Vulcan, or comic book hero, and in return, Dexter's not forced to sit through a foreign romance, a BBC production, or one my classic films.
Kristin Billerbeck
#60. I've been watching 'Dexter' recently; I love that show. It's my favorite.
Steven R. McQueen
#61. John Lithgow was absolutely wonderful in 'Dexter,' there's no doubt about it.
Robert Morse
#62. Dexter Morgan is more like disguise and influence... and everything = fake.
Deyth Banger
#63. What the fuck, Dexter," Deborah said accusingly, as if it were my fault the two blood types were different. "I'm sorry," I said, not at all sure what I was apologizing for, but quite certain from her tone of voice that I should.
Jeff Lindsay
#64. Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.
David Nicholls
#65. For U.S. television series, I really like 'Dexter.'
Yuji Horii
#66. Dexter, she said with an expression of soporific surprise on her face.
Jeff Lindsay
#67. I'm very focused on 'Dexter' right now. I want to make it as good of a show as we can.
Michael C. Hall
#68. First, there was 2 Stupid Dogs. Then, Dexter's Laboratory. And now, Powerpuff Girls. There were a lot of little things in between, but those were the main ones.
Craig McCracken
#69. 'Dexter,' while the pilot shares moments with the novel that created the character of Dexter, they completely abandoned the book from that moment on.
Jim Rash
#70. No TV show in history, no movie ever made - nothing you can imagine as being written or filmed or performed can turn a normal human being into a Dexter.
Jeff Lindsay
#71. As the possibility of a relationship had faded, Emma had endeavored to harden herself to Dexter's indifference and these days a remark like this caused no more pain than, say, a tennis ball thrown sharply at the back of her head.
David Nicholls
#72. Kate was beginning to put distance between her sense of betrayal, her anger, and Dexter's behavior. She was beginning to take his side. Or at least beginning to be able to see things from it.
Chris Pavone
#73. I wanted Dexter to have a family that could love him and understand him.
Jeff Lindsay
#74. And what did you do last night, Dexter? Oh, I played with my dolls while a friend chopped up my sister.
Jeff Lindsay
#75. I get stopped all the time on the street. I can't believe how many people watch 'Dexter.'
Shawn Hatosy
#76. I was filled with dread at the thought my mind had skipped town and left me behind to pay the rent.
Dexter
Jeff Lindsay
#77. We all pretend, we all hide things, so why not take the concept to an extreme? That is the basic idea for the character of Dexter. Pretend to be human, while quietly and carefully living out the life of a monster on the side.
Jeff Lindsay
#78. Perhaps Dexter's dutiful but uninspired brain pictured him as Sherlock Holmes, able to examine the wheel ruts and deduce that a left-handed hunchback with red hair and a limp had gone down the road carrying a Cuban cigar and a ukulele. I would find no clues, not that it mattered.
Jeff Lindsay
#79. For the moment, he's off plotting his Igoresque revenge. I don't know about you, but I have this image of him rubbing his hands together and laughing like Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory. (Kyrian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#80. I guess maybe someone at 'Dexter' saw the 'Mad Men' stuff and thought, 'He can do this.'
Colin Hanks
#81. Working on 'Dexter' is like shooting one big movie every year.
David Zayas
#82. I never thought that I would be so attracted to television, but I don't think gigs like 'Dexter' come along too often.
Jennifer Carpenter
#83. After 'Dexter' and 'La Lupe', I would love to return to theater. I'm just ready for more.
Lauren Velez
#84. My acting career began when I walked into a drama school class run by Anna Scher in Islington. Anna discovered a lot of people: Linda Robson, Pauline Quirke, Gary and Martin Kemp, and Dexter Fletcher were among my contemporaries.
Phil Daniels
#85. This was clearly one of those moments. Mild-mannered, Dexter-Devoted Rita, who never lost her temper and never, never said bad words, was doing both at the same time and directing it all at her innocent-just-this-once husband. But
Jeff Lindsay
#86. Dexter was scared... and suprised... haha.
Deyth Banger
#87. It's a mistake to think that Dexter is nice.
Jeff Lindsay
#88. Of course Dexter always applauds the charitable spirit. But in general, I am so very much in favor of it because it is nearly always a warning sign that something nefarious, wicked, and playful is going on behind the Mother Teresa mask.
Jeff Lindsay
#89. 'Lucky' is for laughs, and there's really nothing funny that I'm doing on 'Dexter.' I think more than anything, both comment on the fact that anybody is capable of anything. Just because they are the shy guy in the corner doesn't mean that they are a harmless little bunny.
Colin Hanks
#90. There are different kinds of predators. There are the kinds who target the weak. And there are those with more of a Dexter vibe who don't lose sleep if a child abuser has a hard time on the way to the station.
Jonathan Maberry
#91. Psychopaths are rats in the lab, Psychopaths don't have conscious... What next???
- (Dexter Series season 8 episode 3...)
Deyth Banger
#92. Oh, God," I said.
"No, it's Dexter," he replied, offering me his hand, which I ignored.
He glanced behind him, then back at me. "I'll see you soon," he said, and grinned at
me.
"Like hell," I replied,
Sarah Dessen
#93. Dexter, please put your shirt on. Valkyrie's getting distracted."
"I'm not," she said, then smiled at Vex. "You don't have to put your shirt on.
Derek Landy
#94. I really like the stuff that Showtime puts out. I think that 'Homeland' is phenomenal. I think 'Dexter' is amazing.
Ben Schwartz
#95. While Johns (Martin Luther King's predecessor as pastor in Montgomery) agreed with Dexter's general disdain for emotionalism, he was very fond of traditional spirituals, believing they represented a part of their history they ought to embrace and celebrate.
Troy Jackson
#96. I can't remember how long it's been since we've seen such a fab show! This was drama-tastic! Better than Romeo and Juliet. Better than The Sound of Music, South Park, Trueblood, Dexter, My Little Pony, and Shrek put together!
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#97. Earth to Dexter, Astor said, and I realized that I still stood in front of them frozen in my unlikely, foolish openmouthed pose like a pedantic zombie.
Jeff Lindsay
#98. I like playing the contrasting roles. It what inspires me to act. If I look back on my career I am happy that I have gotten to play a wide variety of different roles, from Mike Dexter, to Van Ray in Fast Lane, to Dr. Cullen to Coop.
Peter Facinelli
#99. Succeeding Dexter's first exhilaration came restlessness and dissatisfaction. The helpless ecstasy of losing himself in her was opiate rather than tonic. It was fortunate for his work during the winter that those moments of ecstasy came infrequently.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#100. Dexter-Land is a dark and scary place, and I couldn't live there permanently. To be honest, I don't think I even want to visit.
Jeff Lindsay
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