Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990 TV Movie)

Anthony Perkins: Norman Bates

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• Norman Bates : Oh, I've killed before, and now I'm gonna have to do it again.

• Norman Bates : Shouldn't we be getting back to the focus of your show?

  Fran Ambrose : Yeah, well, how did you, how did you kill your mother?

  Norman Bates : Slowly.

• Norman Bates : [to Connie]  You get in the car, I'm gonna get rid of the past for good.

• Fran Ambrose : Ed, are you all right?

  [Norman nods yes] 

  Fran Ambrose : Ed, are you there?

  Norman Bates : I said yes.

  Fran Ambrose : We didn't hear it.

  Norman Bates : I nodded.

  Fran Ambrose : [smiling]  We can't hear nods.

• Dr. Leo Richmond : This abuse your mother heaped on you, you didn't mind it so long as it was just the two of you, isn't that what you're trying to say?

  Norman Bates : As bad as it was, it was okay, perhaps even enjoyable until she brought home a boyfriend?

  Dr. Leo Richmond : Could it be there was a little jealousy there, Ed?

  Norman Bates : If the doctor's trying to turn this into some kind of an incest tragedy, tell him to forget it, Fran.

  Fran Ambrose : Forget it, Doc.

  Norman Bates : I mean, if it was that kind of thing, I wouldn't have killed all those other women, would I?

  Dr. Leo Richmond : How many did you kill, do you remember?

• Norman Bates : Just me and my trusty umbrella.

• Fran Ambrose : Well we have to call you something.

  Norman Bates : You can call me Ed.

• Norman Bates : I know that in the cosmic scheme of things, little boys are small, but some days they can be... some days little boys can be giants.

• Fran Ambrose : Did your mother ever catch you spying on her?

  Norman Bates : God knows what she would've done to me.

• Norman Bates : All that faith and no potatoes.

• Norman Bates : I was the man of the house. She used to call me that. I was practically running the motel single-handedly by the time I was 15. She depended on me. Especially when she was scared. She was scared to death of thunder and lightning.

• Dr. Leo Richmond : Tell me something, Ed. When your mother castrated you like that...

  Norman Bates : Castrated?

  Dr. Leo Richmond : Symbolically. You must have felt like killing her right then and there.

  Norman Bates : I never felt like killing her or anybody else for that matter.

  Dr. Leo Richmond : But you did kill her and other women, too. And now, you tell us you're gonna kill another one.

• Norman : I killed some other women, too. The first one was a girl who just wanted to have sex with me.

  Fran Ambrose : Wanting to have sex with you? That was grounds for murder?

  Norman : [soft smile]  In my mother's eyes, it was.