Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990 TV Movie)
Anthony Perkins: Norman Bates
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Quotes
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Norman Bates : Oh, I've killed before, and now I'm gonna have to do it again.
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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.
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Norman Bates : [to Connie] You get in the car, I'm gonna get rid of the past for good.
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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.
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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?
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Norman Bates : Just me and my trusty umbrella.
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Fran Ambrose : Well we have to call you something.
Norman Bates : You can call me Ed.
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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.
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Fran Ambrose : Did your mother ever catch you spying on her?
Norman Bates : God knows what she would've done to me.
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Norman Bates : All that faith and no potatoes.
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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.
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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.
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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.