Norman Bates The past is never really the past. It stays with me all the time.
Played by Anthony Perkins 
Psycho III (1986) · 21 quotes
Psycho III (1986) · 21 quotes
Most-quoted character in Psycho III (1986): in 13 of its 21 quotes
Most scenes with: Mother (5), Duane Duke (2)
Mother! Oh God, mother! Blood! Blood!
More lines from Norman Bates
3 quotes Norman Bates Norman Bates She can't help it. She can't help the things she does. She's just an old lady. A sick old lady.
Norman Bates You! You made me do this, your tainted blood in me! [A cartoon laughs from the TV] Don't laugh at me, mother! Don't laugh at me!
Scenes with Norman Bates
9 scenesPut me closer to the window.
Norman Bates Someone will see you, mother.
Are you ashamed of me?
Norman Bates You know why, mother. They've even written about you in the newspapers.
Stop your whining, boy. All this fuss over nothing.
Norman Bates Not nothing. I-I saw her. Even the initials on her suitcase, "M.C." Marion Crane.
Another of your cheap erotic illusions, out of your cheap erotic imagination. You killed her. The slut deserved it. But she's dead, and the dead don't come back.
Norman Bates Y-Y-You came back.
I never went away, don't you know that by now? You can't get rid of me. I'll always be with you, Norman. Always. Stand up straight and wipe your snotty little nose. If the disgusting little whore is going to upset you so much, just get rid of her.
Norman Bates No!
Then maybe I will.
You dirty, dirty boy.
Norman Bates But I... I didn't do anything, mother... I didn't do anything, mother. She a nice girl.
She's a whore.
Norman Bates But we didn't do anything.
You let her come between us.
Norman Bates But this... It isn't right. It isn't natural.
It's perfectly natural for a son to love his mother.
Norman Bates God, will you leave me alone, mother? Will you leave me alone?!
Doesn't scan, does it, Norman? But... a lot of shit here doesn't.
Norman Bates What are you doing with my mother?
Don't you mean mummy? You did a nice job on her, Norman. Fresh as the day she was croaked.
Norman Bates I just want my mother back.
Take her. But you know what I want in return, and you know what i'll do if I don't get it.
Norman Bates I know what you'll do...
Get that whore out of my house! Throw her down in the muck and filth where she belongs!
Norman Bates I'll get you for this, mother. I'll get you for this.
You haven't got the guts, boy!
Maureen Coyle You must think I've gone mad.
Norman Bates Oh, no... no. We all go a little mad sometimes.
Norman You were down there, weren't you mother? Weren't you? I'm glad she didn't die! I'm glad!
She will.
It's lies. It's all lies. Norman, she's a lying whore.
Tracy Venable Norman! Norman, where are you?
She's a slut!
Tracy Venable Norman!
Don't let her talk about me like that!
Tracy Venable Norman! Please, Norman, please listen to me! Norman, Mrs. Bates, whoever your are, damn it, doesn't it make any difference in that demented brain of yours?
Kill her, boy! Get her! Just like the others! Get her!
Tracy Venable Oh! No! Don't! No! Please! Norman, no!
[Norman stabs mother]
Norman! Can't you do anything right? How dare you treat your mother in such... a... way... Norman...
Norman Bates So I don't have the guts, huh?
Jesus, Norman. I wanted to believe it wasn't you. This time, they'll lock you up forever!
Norman Bates But I'll be free. I'll finally be free.
