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Psycho

Psycho quotes

44 total quotes

Detective Milton Arbogast
Marion Crane
Norman Bates
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View Quote A boy's best friend is his mother. Note: ranked #56 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.
View Quote 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.
Officer: You slept here all night?
Marion Crane: Yes. As I said, I couldn't keep my eyes open.
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?
Officer: No, ma'am.
Marion Crane: Then I'm free to go?
Officer: Is anything wrong?
Marion Crane: Of course not. Am I acting as if there's something wrong?
Officer: Frankly, yes.
Marion Crane: Please... I'd like to go.
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]
Officer: Now, just a moment! Turn off your motor, please. May I see your license?
Marion Crane: Why?
Officer: Please.
View Quote 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?
Marion Crane: Sam!
Sam Loomis: All right.
View Quote 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]
View Quote Californian Charlie: I'm in no mood for trouble.
Marion Crane: What?
Charlie: 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?
Charlie: 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 --
Charlie: -- 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 --
Charlie: 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.
View Quote 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: Well, you could laze around here a while longer.
Marion Crane: Hmm. Checking out time is 3 PM. 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 an occasional night in a cheap hotel.
Marion Crane: I know marriage can do a lot of things deliberately.
Sam Loomis: You sure talk like a girl who's been married.
Marion Crane: Sam, this is the last time.
Sam Loomis: For what?
Marion Crane: For this, meeting you in secret so we can be secretive. You come down here on business trips. We steal lunch hours. I wish you wouldn't even come.
Sam Loomis: All right, what do we do instead? Write each other lurid love letters?
View Quote Charlie: It's the first time the customer ever high-pressured a salesman. I figure roughly... your car plus seven hundred dollars.
Marion Crane: Seven hundred dollars?
Charlie: You always got time to argue money, huh?
Marion Crane: All right.
View Quote Well, if it doesn't jell, it isn't aspic, and this ain't jellin'!
View Quote 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.
View Quote 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.
View Quote Gee, I'm sorry I didn't hear you in all this rain. Go ahead in, please.
View Quote A hobby should pass the time, not fill it.
View Quote Well I'm not a fool. And I'm not capable of being fooled! Not even by a woman.
View Quote Headaches are like resolutions. You forget them as soon as they stop hurting.
View Quote Are you sure you wouldn't like to stay just a little while longer? Just for talk?