Jason Gideon

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Mandy Patinkin
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Jason Gideon Quotes

	Season 2 / Episode 21: - Open Season Jason Gideon: [Opening Quote] "One man's wilderness is another man's theme park." Author Unknown
	Season 2 / Episode 21: - Doubt Jason Gideon: [Opening Quote] "One man's wilderness is another man's theme park." Author Unknown
	Season 2 / Episode 18: - Jones Jason Gideon: [Opening Quote] Robert Kennedy once said, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live."
	Season 2 / Episode 8: - Empty Planet Jason Gideon: Robspierre wrote: "Crime butchers innocence to secure prize and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime."
	Season 1 / Episode 20: - Charm and Harm Jason Gideon: Voltaire wrote, "There are some who only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts."
	Season 1 / Episode 20: - Charm and Harm Jason Gideon: [Last Lines] The author, Francois de La Rochefoucauld said, "We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves."
	Season 1 / Episode 18: - Somebody's Watching Dr. Spencer Reid: Do I look twelve years old to you? Jason Gideon: Fourteen?
	Season 1 / Episode 17: - A Real Rain Derek Morgan: You've never been to New York? Dr. Spencer Reid: We've never had an UNSUB there. Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner: [to Gideon] I thought you were going to talk to Reid about taking some vacation time. Jason Gideon: What vacation time?
	Season 1 / Episode 17: - A Real Rain Jason Gideon: W. H. Auden said, "Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness."
	Season 1 / Episode 17: - A Real Rain Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner: Ghandi said, "Better to be violent if there's violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence. Jason Gideon: Ghandi also said, "I object to violence because when it appears to do good the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."
	Season 1 / Episode 10: - The Popular Kids Jason Gideon: Sir Peter Ustinov said, "Unfortunately, a superabundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares."
	Season 1 / Episode 10: - The Popular Kids Jason Gideon: Playwright Eugene Ionescu said, "Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together."
	Season 1 / Episode 10: - The Popular Kids Jason Gideon: This was a human being!
	Season 1 / Episode 10: - The Popular Kids Dr. Spencer Reid: Melted wax? Jennifer "JJ" Jareau: Candle wax? Dr. Spencer Reid: Candles are used in rituals. Jason Gideon: They're also used on birthday cakes. Dr. Spencer Reid: Actually, they were originally used to protect the birthday celebrant from demons for the coming year. As a matter of fact, down to the fourth century, Christianity rejected the birthday celebration as a Pagan ritual. Sheriff Bridges: What kind of a doctor are you?
	Season 1 / Episode 9: - Derailed Jason Gideon: Robert Oxton Bolt once wrote, "A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind."
	Season 1 / Episode 9: - Derailed Jason Gideon: You're all right? Elle Greenaway: Yeah, I'm fine, Dad. Jason Gideon: Elle? Elle Greenaway: Yeah? Jason Gideon: Don't ever call me "Dad" again. Elle Greenaway: How do you think he'd feel about Mom? Dr. Spencer Reid: Let me know when you're going to do that so I can, uh, run.
	Season 1 / Episode 8: - Natural Born Killer Jason Gideon: Hemingway wrote, "There is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else."
	Season 1 / Episode 8: - Natural Born Killer Jason Gideon: Carl Jung said, "The healthy man does not torture others. Generally, it is the tortured who turn into torturers."
	Season 1 / Episode 7: - The Fox Jason Gideon: He tells the mother, "Don't scream or I'll kill your children." He tells the children, "If you cry, I'll kill Mommy."
	Season 1 / Episode 7: - The Fox Jason Gideon: When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
	Season 1 / Episode 6: - L.D.S.K. Dr. Spencer Reid: You're just saying that to convince me I don't need to carry a gun. Jason Gideon: I don't care if you carry a gun or not. The deadliest weapon we have is a thorough and accurate profile. Dr. Spencer Reid: Of course, you believe that. Jason Gideon: The footpath killer had a shotgun to the back of my head. I'm here, he's not.
	Season 1 / Episode 6: - L.D.S.K. Elle Greenaway: What do we call them then? Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner: L.D.S.K. Dr. Spencer Reid: Long Distance Serial Killers. Elle Greenaway: How many of these guys have we caught using a profile? Jason Gideon: None.
	Season 1 / Episode 6: - L.D.S.K. Jason Gideon: This is gonna hit you. And when it does, there are only three facts you need to remember. You did what you had to do, and a lot of good people are alive because of what you did. Dr. Spencer Reid: What's the third? Jason Gideon: I'm proud of you.
	Season 1 / Episode 6: - L.D.S.K. Jason Gideon: Nietzsche said, "The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."
	Season 1 / Episode 5: - Broken Mirror Jason Gideon: Euripedes said, "When love is in excess it brings a man no honor, nor any worthiness."
	Season 1 / Episode 4: - Plain Sight Jason Gideon: Finding new ways to hurt each other is what we're good at.
	Season 1 / Episode 4: - Plain Sight Jason Gideon: French poet Jacques Rigaut said: "Don't forget that I cannot see myself. My role is limited to being the one that looks in the mirror."
	Season 1 / Episode 4: - Plain Sight Jason Gideon: Rose Kennedy once said, "Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?"
	Season 1 / Episode 4: - Plain Sight Jason Gideon: You havin' fun? Dr. Spencer Reid: [dully] Yes. Definately. I'm definately having fun. Jason Gideon: Make a wish? Dr. Spencer Reid: Can I take this hat off? Jason Gideon: I wouldn't. Jennifer "JJ" Jareau: Hey, Spence. First piece for the birthday boy. Dr. Spencer Reid: [to Gideon] Do you know she's the only person in the whole world who calls me 'Spence.'
	Season 1 / Episode 4: - Plain Sight Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner: Isn't it amazing he knows what he knows and he's only 24? Jason Gideon: Imagine what he'll know by fifty.

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