"A man should have a hobby. Well it's It's more than a hobby. A hobby's supposed to pass the time not fill it. Is your time so empty."

"And tomorrow she stands her sweet self up there and gets married away from me."

"She isn't quite herself today."

"Oh, your sister called to say she's going to Tucson to do some buying"

"After the murder, Norman returned as if from a deep sleep,"

"And because he was so pathologically jealous of her,"

"Take it easy. It's just that your girlfriend stole $40,000."

"There must be some proof that exists now,"

"Mother! Oh, God, Mother!"

"Oh, Sam, I hate having to be with you in a place like this."

"He came after the girl, and now someone will come after him."

"And she said she had to go to sleep early"

"See, this boy had a sick old mother."

"Even I couldn't get to Norman and he knows me."

"She's not missing so much as she's run away."

"Is really a false false . . Falsity."

"I guess I'll go put this money in the bank and then go home and sleep it off."

"I wish you could apologise for other people."

"Oh, I see."

"The mother side of him would go wild."

"Well, I did question him, believe me, but I think I got all there was to get."

"In Green Lawn Cemetery for the past 10 years."

"Saw the register myself."

"She needs me. It's not as if she were. a maniac a raving thing She just goes a little mad sometimes. We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven't you. Yes. Sometimes just one time can be enough."

"Go out and find yourself somebody available?"

"Can't buy off unhappiness with pills."

"Called you to keep you still while he took off after her and the money."

"NORMAN: Please, Mother."

"Sometimes Saturday night has a lonely sound. Ever notice that Lila."

"Norman found them dead together. In bed."

"Thank you, Norman."

"I'm sorry I didn't mean it to sound uncaring."

"Let's sit still and hang on, okay?"

"He was flirting with you. I guess he must've noticed my wedding ring."

"He wants practically notarised receipts."

"Checking out time is 3:00 PM."

"Mother My mother. What is the phrase. She isn't quite herself today."

"My hobby is stuffing things."

"The rain didn't last long, did it? You know what I think?"

"And they'll say, Why, she wouldn't even harm a fly."

"Mother, she's just a stranger. She's hungry and it's raining out."

"Don't you touch me! Don't! Norman!"

"A boy's best friend is his mother."

"We all go a little mad sometimes."

"She just goes a little mad sometimes. We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven't you?"

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

"Mother isn't quite herself today."

"You eat like a bird."

"It's not like my mother is a maniac or a raving thing. She just goes a little mad sometimes."

"We're all in our private traps, clamped in them, and none of us can ever get out."

"We scratch and claw, but only at the air, only at each other, and for all of it, we never budge an inch."

"You know what I think? I think that we're all in our private traps, clamped in them."

"I'd like to have a mother's love, too."

"A son is a poor substitute for a lover."

"He was always bad, and in the end he intended to tell them I killed those girls and that man."

"I am not a fool, you know."

"I am not a fool, and I am not going to have them bringing some strange young girl in for supper."

"I'll not have you bringing some young girl in for supper! By candlelight, I suppose, in the cheap, erotic fashion of young men with cheap, erotic minds!"

"No! I tell you no! I won't have you bringing some strange girl in for supper!"

"Mother! Oh, God, mother! Blood! Blood!"

"Mother! What is the phrase? She isn't quite herself today."

"My mother... what is the phrase? She isn't quite herself today."

"I'd like to help her, but there's nothing I can do. She's harmless."

"I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times."

"They'll see. They'll see and then they'll know. And then they'll say, 'Why, she wouldn't even harm a fly.'"

"Why, she wouldn't even harm a fly."

"I am Norma Bates."

"Sometimes we deliberately step into those traps."

"I stepped into a private trap back there and I'd like to go back and try to claw my way out."

"I'll lick the stamps myself."

"In my business, you know, you're never too surprised at anything people do."

"If it doesn't jell, it isn't aspic. And this ain't jelling."

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

"A mother is a boy's best friend."

"People always mean well. They cluck their thick tongues and shake their heads and suggest, oh, so very delicately."

"Twelve cabins, twelve vacancies."

"You have an empty cabin?"

"I run a motel here. It's kinda off the beaten track, you know."

"It's not as if she were a maniac or something. She's just... well, she goes a little mad sometimes."

"You have no right to even think about bringing strangers in here for supper."

"I tell you what I'll do. I'll take you to an institution where they'll look after you."

"A psychiatrist doesn't lay the groundwork, he only tries to explain it."

"When the mind houses two personalities, there is always a conflict, a battle."

"In Norman's case, he was never all Norman, but he was often only mother."

"And now, the mother half of him was ordering him to cover up all traces of the crime."

"Norman Bates no longer exists. He only half existed to begin with."

"Now he's all mother."

"But mother is not."

"When love meets death, you get Psycho."

"The bathroom. I've got to clean the bathroom."

"I must be losing my mind."

"I paid $40,000 to have someone else's name on it."

"I never carry more than I can afford to lose."

"You know, money doesn't mean anything to me."

"I'm not about to start a new life with stolen money."

"The rain didn't last long, did it?"

"You know what I'd do if I had that much money? I'd burn it."

"It's not as expensive as it looks."

"I run the office too. It's more than a full-time job."

"My mother... she isn't really sick, but she is... she's just..."

"I don't set a fancy table, but the kitchen's awful homey."

"You know what I think? I think that we're all in our private traps."

"I was born in mine. I don't mind it anymore."

"You know what I'd do? I'd just leave it here. Someone else might find it."

"No! I'm not even going to think about it."

"I'll be home by Monday if I drive all day Sunday."

"I'd like to apologize for my mother today. She's not herself."

"She's not dangerous. She's as harmless as one of those stuffed birds."

"I refuse to be dominated by a sick, jealous woman!"

"I am not a raving maniac! I am a normal, healthy, jealous woman!"

"I am not a raving thing! I am a normal, healthy, jealous woman!"

"No! I tell you no! I won't have you bringing some cheap, erotic girl in for supper!"

"I am not a fool, you know. I know what goes on in cheap hotels."

"I am not going to have her bringing some strange young man in for supper!"

"Well, if you won't let me have my way, I'll just have to do something about it."

"You'll see what I'll do! You'll see!"

"Well, if you won't let me have my way, I'll just have to take matters into my own hands."

"I am not a raving thing! I am a mother!"

"I am a mother! A mother is a sacred thing!"

"You'd like to get rid of me, wouldn't you? You'd like to put me away somewhere."

"Well, I won't go! I won't!"

"I'll show you! I'll show you what a mother can do!"

"You think I'm crazy? Well, I'll show you crazy!"

"I am not going to let you take my boy away from me!"

"He's my son! Mine!"

"I gave him life! I can take it away!"

"No one will ever take my boy away from me! No one!"

"I'll kill anyone who tries!"

"You hear me? I'll kill them!"

"I am his mother! That gives me the right!"

"A mother's love is the strongest love there is!"

"I will protect him! I will!"

"No one will ever hurt my boy! No one!"

"I am his guardian angel!"

"God gave him to me! He's mine!"

"I will not be separated from my son! I will not!"

"We belong together! We always have!"

"Death cannot separate us! Nothing can!"

"I am with him always! Always!"

"Even when he thinks he's alone, I am there!"

"I see everything! I know everything!"

"There is no escape from a mother's love! None!"