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Quotes from the movie Psycho
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Gee, I'm sorry I didn't hear you in all this rain. Go ahead in, please.
Norman Bates


Nobody ever stops here anymore unless they've done that. There's no sense dwelling on our losses. We just keep on lighting the lights and following the formalities.
Norman Bates


Well the, uh, mattress is soft, and there's hangers in the closet and stationery with 'Bates Motel' printed on it, in case you want to make your friends back home feel envious.
Norman Bates


A boy's best friend is his mother.
Norman Bates


Are you sure you wouldn't like to stay just a little while longer? Just for talk?
Norman Bates


Dirty night.
Norman Bates


Hate the smell of dampness, don't you? It's such a, I don't know, creepy smell.
Norman Bates


A hobby should pass the time, not fill it.
Norman Bates


A hobby should pass the time, not fill it.
Norman Bates


I don't set a fancy table, but my kitchen's awful homey.
Norman Bates


Oh, we have twelve vacancies. Twelve cabins, twelve vacancies. They, uh, they moved away the highway.
Norman Bates


I think I must have one of those faces you can't help believing.
Norman Bates


Well I'm not a fool. And I'm not capable of being fooled! Not even by a woman.
Norman Bates


She might have fooled me, but she didn't fool my mother.
Norman Bates


Well, a son is a poor substitute for a lover.
Norman Bates


I don't even much bother with, uh, guests registering anymore. You know, one by one, you drop the formalities. I shouldn't even bother changing the sheets but old habits die hard.
Norman Bates


Mother! Oh God, mother! Blood! Blood!
Norman Bates


We all go a little mad sometimes.
Norman Bates


If you love someone, you don't do that even if you hate them. You understand that I don't hate her ó I hate what she's become. I hate the illness.
Norman Bates


You make respectability sound disrespectful.
Marion Crane


I'll lick the stamps.
Marion Crane


Headaches are like resolutions. You forget them as soon as they stop hurting.
Marion Crane


Well, if it doesn't jell, it isn't aspic, and this ain't jellin'!
Detective Milton Arbogast


Oh, someone has seen her, all right. Someone always sees a girl with $40,000.
Detective Milton Arbogast


We're always quickest to doubt people who have a reputation for being honest.
Detective Milton Arbogast