Psycho (1998)
Vince Vaughn: Norman Bates
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Quotes
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Norman Bates : A boy's best friend is his mother.
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Norman Bates : We all go a little mad sometimes.
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[last lines]
Norman Bates' Mother : It is sad when a mother has to speak the words that condemn her own son. I can't allow them to think 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 want to just sit here and be quiet just in case they 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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Norman Bates : A hobby should pass the time, not fill it.
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Norman Bates : Dirty night.
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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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Norman Bates : I don't set a fancy table, but my kitchen's awful homey.
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Norman Bates : Mother! Oh God, mother! Blood! Blood!
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Norman Bates : Well, a son is a poor substitute for a lover.
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Norman Bates : She might have fooled me, but she didn't fool my mother.
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Norman Bates : I think I must have one of those faces you can't help believing.
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Norman Bates : Oh, we have 12 vacancies. 12 cabins, 12 vacancies.
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Norman Bates' Mother : No! I tell you no! I won't 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!
Norman Bates : Mother, please...!
Norman Bates' Mother : And then what? After supper? Music? Whispers?
Norman Bates : Mother, she's just a stranger. She's hungry, and it's raining out!
Norman Bates' Mother : "Mother, she's just a stranger"! As if men don't desire strangers! As if... ohh, I refuse to speak of disgusting things, because they disgust me! You understand, boy? Go on, go tell her she'll not be appeasing her ugly appetite with MY food... or my son! Or do I have tell her because you don't have the guts! Huh, boy? You have the guts, boy?
Norman Bates : Shut up! Shut up!
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Norman Bates : Well I'm not a fool. And I'm not capable of being fooled! Not even by a woman.
