Highway Patrol officer: Uh... hold it there. In quite a hurry. Marion Crane: [nervously] Yes. Uh... I didn't intend to sleep so long. I almost had an accident last night, from sleepiness. So I decided to pull over. Highway Patrol officer: You slept here all night? Marion Crane: Yes. As I said, I couldn't keep my eyes open. Highway Patrol officer: There are plenty of motels in this area. You should've... I mean, just to be safe. Marion Crane: I didn't intend to sleep all night! I just pulled over. Have I broken any laws? Highway Patrol officer: No, ma'am. Marion Crane: Then I'm free to go? Highway Patrol officer: Is anything wrong? Marion Crane: Of course not. Am I acting as if there's something wrong? Highway Patrol officer: Frankly, yes. Marion Crane: Please... I'd like to go. Highway Patrol officer: Well, is there? Marion Crane: Is there what? I've told you there's nothing wrong, except that I'm in a hurry and you're taking up my time. [starts car engine] Highway Patrol officer: Now, just a moment! Turn off your motor, please. May I see your license? Marion Crane: Why? Highway Patrol officer: Please.
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Lila Crane: Look, that old woman, whoever she is, she told Arbogast something. I want her to tell us the same thing. Sam Loomis: Hold it, you can't go up there. Lila Crane: Why not? Sam Loomis: Bates. Lila Crane: Then, let's find him. One of us can keep him occupied while the other gets to the old woman. Sam Loomis: You'll never be able to hold him still even if he doesn't want to be held. And, I don't like you going into that house alone. Lila Crane: I can handle a sick old woman!
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California Charlie, used car salesman: I'm in no mood for trouble. Marion Crane: What? California Charlie, used car salesman: There's an old saying, "First customer of the day is always the trouble!" But like I say, I'm in no mood for it so I'm gonna treat you so fair and square that you won't have one human reason to give me ... Marion Crane: Can I trade my car in and take another? California Charlie, used car salesman: Do anything you've a mind to. Bein' a woman, you will. That yours? Marion Crane: Yes, it's just that - there's nothing wrong with it. I just ... California Charlie, used car salesman: Sick of the sight of it! Well, why don't you have a look around here and see if there's somethin' that strikes your eyes and meanwhile I'll have my mechanic give yours the once over. You want some coffee? I was just about ... Marion Crane: No, thank you. I'm in a hurry. I just want to make a change, and ... California Charlie, used car salesman: One thing people never oughtta be when they're buyin' used cars and that's in a hurry. But like I said, it's too nice a day to argue. I'll uh - shoot your car in the garage here.
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Deputy Sheriff Al Chambers: Your detective told you he couldn't come right back because he was goin' to question Norman Bates' mother. Right? Lila Crane: Yes Deputy Sheriff Al Chambers: Norman Bates' mother has been dead and buried in Greenlawn Cenetery for the past ten years! Eliza Chambers: I helped Norman pick out the dress she was buried in. Periwinkle blue. Deputy Sheriff Al Chambers: 'Tain't only local history, Sam. It's the only case of murder and suicide on Fairvale ledgers.
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Marion Crane: I'll lick the stamps.
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Norman Bates: I think I must have one of those faces you can't help believing.
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California Charlie, used car salesman: [voiceover while Marion is driving] Heck, Officer, that was the first time I ever saw the customer high-pressure the salesman! Somebody chasin' her? Highway Patrol officer: I better have a look at those papers, Charlie. California Charlie, used car salesman: She look like the wrong-one to you? Highway Patrol officer: Acted like one. California Charlie, used car salesman: The only funny thing, she paid me seven hundred dollars in cash. Caroline: Yes, Mr Lowery? George Lowery, realtor: Caroline? Marion still isn't in? Caroline: No, Mr Lowery. But then, she's always a bit late on Monday mornings. George Lowery, realtor: Buzz me the minute she comes in. Then call her sister - if no one's answering at the house. Caroline: I called her sister, Mr Lowery, where she works, - the Music Makers Music Store, you know, - and she doesn't know where Marion is any more than we do. George Lowery, realtor: You'd better run out to the house. She may be, well - unable to answer the phone. Caroline: Her sister's going to do that. She's as worried as we are. George Lowery, realtor: No, I haven't the faintest idea. As I said, I last saw your sister when she left the office on Friday. She said she didn't feel well and wanted to leave early; I said she could. That was the last I saw - Now wait a minute. I did see her sometime later, driving - Ah, I think you'd better come over here to my office - quick! Caroline, get Mr. Cassidy for me! [pause] George Lowery, realtor: After all, Cassidy, I told you - all that cash! I'm not taking the responsibility! Oh, for heaven's sake! A girl works for you for ten years, you trust her! All right. Yes. You better come over. Tom Cassidy, home buyer: Well I ain't about to kiss off forty thousand dollars! I'll get it back, and if any of it's missin' I'll replace it with her fine, soft flesh! I'll track her, never you doubt it! George Lowery, realtor: Oh, hold on, Cassidy! I-I still can't believe - it must be some kind of mystery. I-I can't ... Tom Cassidy, home buyer: You checked with the bank, no? They never laid eyes on her, no? You still trustin'? Hot creepers! She sat there while I dumped it out! Hardly even looked at it! Plannin'! And - even flirtin' with me!
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Norman Bates: Dirty night.
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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: You-you eat like a bird. Marion Crane: [Looking around at the stuffed birds while eating] And you'd know, of course. Norman Bates: No, not really. Anyway, I hear the expression 'eats like a bird' - it-it's really a [stammers] Norman Bates: fals-fals-fals-falsity. Because birds really eat a tremendous lot. But -I-I don't really know anything about birds. My hobby is stuffing things. You know - taxidermy.
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Hardware store customer: [Looking at can] They tell you what its ingredients are, and how it's guaranteed to exterminate every insect in the world, but they do not tell you whether or not it's painless. And-and I say, insect or man, [Lila Crane enters shop] Hardware store customer: death should always be painless.
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Sam Loomis: Bob! Run out and get yourself some lunch, will you? Bob Summerfield: Oh, that's okay, Sam, I brought it with me. Sam Loomis: Run out and eat it!
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Officer: He's a tranvestite! Dr. Fred Richmond: Ah, not exactly. A man who dresses in women's clothing in order to achieve a sexual change, or satisfaction, is a transvestite. But in Norman's case, he was simply doing everything possible to keep alive the illusion of his mother being alive. And when reality came too close, when danger or desire threatened that illusion - he dressed up, even to a cheap wig he bought. He'd walk about the house, sit in her chair, speak in her voice. He tried to be mother! And uh now he is. [pause] Dr. Fred Richmond: Now that's what I meant when I said I got the story from the mother. You see, when the mind houses two personalities, there's always a conflict, a battle. In Norman's case, the battle is over, - and the dominant personality has won. Deputy Sheriff Al Chambers: And the forty thousand dollars? Who got that? Dr. Fred Richmond: The swamp. These were crimes of passion, not profit. Officer: [enters room with blanket on arm] He feels a chill. Can I gring him this blanket? Dr. Fred Richmond: [Lighting cigarette] Oh sure. Police Chief James Mitchell: All right.
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Norman Bates: She just goes a little mad sometimes. We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven't you? Marion Crane: Yes. Sometimes just one time can be enough.
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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.
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Norman Bates: Uh-uh, Mother-m-mother, uh, what is the phrase? She isn't quite herself today.
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Norman Bates: She might have fooled me, but she didn't fool my mother.
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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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Dr. Fred Richmond: Like I said... the mother... Now to understand it the way I understood it, hearing it from the mother... that is, from the mother half of Norman's mind... you have to go back ten years, to the time when Norman murdered his mother and her lover. Now he was already dangerously disturbed, had been ever since his father died. His mother was a clinging, demanding woman, and for years the two of them lived as if there was no one else in the world. Then she met a man... and it seemed to Norman that she 'threw him over' for this man. Now that pushed him over the line and he killed 'em both. Matricide is probably the most unbearable crime of all... most unbearable to the son who commits it. So he had to erase the crime, at least in his own mind. He stole her corpse. A weighted coffin was buried. He hid the body in the fruit cellar. Even treated it to keep it as well as it would keep. And that still wasn't enough. She was there! But she was a corpse. So he began to think and speak for her, give her half his time, so to speak. At times he could be both personalities, carry on conversations. At other times, the mother half took over completely. Now he was never all Norman, but he was often only mother. And because he was so pathologically jealous of her, he assumed that she was jealous of him. Therefore, if he felt a strong attraction to any other woman, the mother side of him would go wild. [Points finger at Lila Crane] Dr. Fred Richmond: When he met your sister, he was touched by her... aroused by her. He wanted her. That set off the 'jealous mother' and 'mother killed the girl'! Now after the murder, Norman returned as if from a deep sleep. And like a dutiful son, covered up all traces of the crime he was convinced his mother had committed!
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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? Its Friday, anyway - and hot. Marion Crane: What do I do with my free afternoon? Walk you to the airport?
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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?
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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.
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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] There 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, home buyer: 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, home buyer: I never carry more than I can afford to lose! Count 'em. Caroline: I declare! Tom Cassidy, home buyer: [staring at Marion] I don't! That's how I get to keep it! George Lowery, realtor: Tom, uh... cash transactions of this size! Most irregular.
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Norman Bates: A boy's best friend is his mother.
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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: A hobby should pass the time, not fill it.
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Norman Bates: I don't set a fancy table, but my kitchen's awful homey.
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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.
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Detective 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.
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Lila Crane: I can handle a sick old woman!
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Detective Milton Arbogast: Oh, someone has seen her, all right. Someone always sees a girl with $40,000.
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Norman Bates' Mother: [in police custody, as Norman is thinking] 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. 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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Detective Milton Arbogast: Well, if it doesn't jell, it isn't aspic, and this ain't jellin'!
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Norman Bates: Now mother, I'm going to uh, bring something up... Norman Bates' Mother: Haha... I am sorry, boy, but you do manage to look ludicrous when you give me orders. Norman Bates: Please, mother. Norman Bates' Mother: No! I will not hide in the fruit cellar! Ha! You think I'm fruity, huh? I'm staying right here. This is my room and noone will drag me out of it, least of all my big, bold son! Norman Bates: They'll come now, mother! He came after the girl and now someone will come after him. Please mother, it's just for a few days, just for a few days so they won't find you! Norman Bates' Mother: 'Just for a few days'? In that dark, dank fruit cellar? No! You hid me there once boy, and you'll not do it again, not ever again, now get out! I told you to get out, boy. Norman Bates: I'll carry you, mother. Norman Bates' Mother: Norman! What do you think you're doing? Don't you touch me, don't! NORMAN! Put me down, put me down, I can walk on my own...
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