Psycho Quotes
Sam Loomis : You never did eat your lunch, did you?
Marion Crane : I better get back to the office. These extended lunch hours give my boss excess acid.
Sam Loomis : Why don't you call your boss and tell him you're taking the rest of the afternoon off? It's Friday anyway, and hot.
Marion Crane : What do I do with my free afternoon? Walk you to the airport?
Sam Loomis : We could laze around here a while longer.
Marion Crane : Checking out time is 3 P.M. Hotels of this sort are interested in you when you come in, but when your time is up... oh Sam, I hate having to be with you in a place like this.
Sam Loomis : Married couples deliberately spend occasional nights in cheap hotels like this.
Marion Crane : I better get back to the office. These extended lunch hours give my boss excess acid.
Sam Loomis : Why don't you call your boss and tell him you're taking the rest of the afternoon off? It's Friday anyway, and hot.
Marion Crane : What do I do with my free afternoon? Walk you to the airport?
Sam Loomis : We could laze around here a while longer.
Marion Crane : Checking out time is 3 P.M. Hotels of this sort are interested in you when you come in, but when your time is up... oh Sam, I hate having to be with you in a place like this.
Sam Loomis : Married couples deliberately spend occasional nights in cheap hotels like this.
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Marion Crane : Oh, we can see each other. We can even have dinner but respectably in my house with my mother's picture on the mantel and my sister helping me broil a big steak for three.
Sam Loomis : And after the steak, do we send Sister to the movies? Turn mama's picture to the wall?
Sam Loomis : And after the steak, do we send Sister to the movies? Turn mama's picture to the wall?
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Dr. Fred Richmond : No. I got the whole story - but not from Norman. I got it - from his mother. Norman Bates no longer exists. He only half-existed to begin with. And now, the other half has taken over. Probably for all time.
Lila Crane : Did he kill my sister?
Dr. Fred Richmond : Yes, - and no.
Lila Crane : Did he kill my sister?
Dr. Fred Richmond : Yes, - and no.
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Caroline : [ taking pill bottle out of purse ] I've got something - not aspirin. My mother's doctor gave them to me the day of my wedding. Teddy was furious when he found out I had taken tranquilizers!
Marion Crane : [ applying lipstick ] Any calls?
Caroline : Teddy called me - my mother called to see if Teddy called. Oh, your sister called to say she's going to Tucson to do some buying and she'll be gone the whole weekend, and [ coversation interrupted ]
Marion Crane : [ applying lipstick ] Any calls?
Caroline : Teddy called me - my mother called to see if Teddy called. Oh, your sister called to say she's going to Tucson to do some buying and she'll be gone the whole weekend, and [ coversation interrupted ]
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Tom Cassidy : I'm buying this house for my baby's wedding present. Forty thousand dollars, cash! Now, that's... not buying happiness. That's just... buying off unhappiness. [ waves money in front of Marion ]
Tom Cassidy : I never carry more than I can afford to lose! Count 'em.
Caroline : I declare!
Tom Cassidy : [ staring at Marion ] I don't! That's how I get to keep it!
George Lowery : Tom, uh... cash transactions of this size! Most irregular.
Tom Cassidy : I never carry more than I can afford to lose! Count 'em.
Caroline : I declare!
Tom Cassidy : [ staring at Marion ] I don't! That's how I get to keep it!
George Lowery : Tom, uh... cash transactions of this size! Most irregular.
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Marion Crane : Do you go out with friends?
Norman Bates : A boy's best friend is his mother.
Norman Bates : A boy's best friend is his mother.
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Norman Bates : Are you sure you wouldn't like to stay just a little while longer? Just for talk?
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Norman Bates : Hate the smell of dampness, don't you? It's such a, I don't know, creepy smell.
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Marion Crane : Taxidermy. That is a strange hobby to fill.
Norman Bates : A hobby should pass the time, not fill it.
Norman Bates : A hobby should pass the time, not fill it.
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Marion Crane : Wouldn't it be better if you put her... someplace.
Norman Bates : You mean an institution? A madhouse?
Marion Crane : No, I didn't mean it like...
Norman Bates : [ suddenly angry ] People always call a madhouse "someplace", don't they? "Put her in someplace!"
Marion Crane : I'm sorry. I didn't mean to sound so uncaring.
Norman Bates : What do you know about caring? Have you ever seen the inside of one of those places? The laughing, and the tears, and those cruel eyes studying you? My mother there? [ subdued tone ]
Norman Bates : Oh, but she's harmless. She's as harmless as one of those stuffed birds.
Marion Crane : I tried to mean well.
Norman Bates : People always mean well. They cluck their thick tongues, and shake their heads and suggest, oh, so very delicately!
Norman Bates : You mean an institution? A madhouse?
Marion Crane : No, I didn't mean it like...
Norman Bates : [ suddenly angry ] People always call a madhouse "someplace", don't they? "Put her in someplace!"
Marion Crane : I'm sorry. I didn't mean to sound so uncaring.
Norman Bates : What do you know about caring? Have you ever seen the inside of one of those places? The laughing, and the tears, and those cruel eyes studying you? My mother there? [ subdued tone ]
Norman Bates : Oh, but she's harmless. She's as harmless as one of those stuffed birds.
Marion Crane : I tried to mean well.
Norman Bates : People always mean well. They cluck their thick tongues, and shake their heads and suggest, oh, so very delicately!
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Milton Arbogast : We're always quickest to doubt people who have a reputation for being honest.
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Norman Bates : You know what I think? I think that we're all in our private traps, clamped in them, and none of us can ever get out. We scratch and we claw, but only at the air, only at each other, and for all of it, we never budge an inch.
Marion Crane : Sometimes, we deliberately step into those traps.
Norman Bates : I was born into mine. I don't mind it anymore.
Marion Crane : Oh, but you should. You should mind it.
Norman Bates : Oh, I do [ laughs ]
Norman Bates : but I say I don't.
Marion Crane : You know - if anyone ever talked to me the way I heard - the way she spoke to you...
Norman Bates : Sometimes - when she talks to me like that - I feel I'd like to go up there - and curse her - and-and-and leave her forever! Or at least defy her! But I know I can't. She's ill.
Marion Crane : Sometimes, we deliberately step into those traps.
Norman Bates : I was born into mine. I don't mind it anymore.
Marion Crane : Oh, but you should. You should mind it.
Norman Bates : Oh, I do [ laughs ]
Norman Bates : but I say I don't.
Marion Crane : You know - if anyone ever talked to me the way I heard - the way she spoke to you...
Norman Bates : Sometimes - when she talks to me like that - I feel I'd like to go up there - and curse her - and-and-and leave her forever! Or at least defy her! But I know I can't. She's ill.
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Milton Arbogast : Oh, someone has seen her, all right. Someone always sees a girl with $40,000.
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Norma Bates : [ voiceover in police custody, as Norman is thinking ] It's sad, when a mother has to speak the words that condemn her own son. But I couldn't allow them to believe that I would commit murder. They'll put him away now, as I should have years ago. He was always bad, and in the end he intended to tell them I killed those girls and that man... as if I could do anything but just sit and stare, like one of his stuffed birds. They know I can't move a finger, and I won't. I'll just sit here and be quiet, just in case they do... suspect me. They're probably watching me. Well, let them. Let them see what kind of a person I am. I'm not even going to swat that fly. I hope they are watching... they'll see. They'll see and they'll know, and they'll say, "Why, she wouldn't even harm a fly..."
Norma Bates : [ voiceover in police custody, as Norman is thinking ] It's sad, when a mother has to speak the words that condemn her own son. But I couldn't allow them to believe that I would commit murder. They'll put him away now, as I should have years ago. He was always bad, and in the end he intended to tell them I killed those girls and that man... as if I could do anything but just sit and stare, like one of his stuffed birds. They know I can't move a finger, and I won't. I'll just sit here and be quiet, just in case they do... suspect me. They're probably watching me. Well, let them. Let them see what kind of a person I am. I'm not even going to swat that fly. I hope they are watching... they'll see. They'll see and they'll know, and they'll say, "Why, she wouldn't even harm a fly..."
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California Charlie : It's the first time the customer ever high-pressured the salesman. I figure roughly... your car plus seven hundred dollars.
Marion Crane : Seven hundred dollars?
California Charlie : You always got time to argue money, huh?
Marion Crane : Seven hundred dollars?
California Charlie : You always got time to argue money, huh?
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