Anthony Perkins movie quotes

“My saints are a camera and a gun. They're both fiercely truthful.”
Anthony Perkins - Sean McAvoy

“- Mary: I don't wanna hurt your feelings or anything, but Myrna talked about you on the Diner today. Mrs Spool told her to shut up but she didn't. She said you've been locked up.
- Norman Bates: Did she tell you why? Well, I'll tell you. When I was little, I had a fight with my mother, so I put some poison in her tea, you know. But I'm all right...” (continue)(continue reading)
Meg Tilly - Mary Loomis
Anthony Perkins - Norman Bates

“- Norman Bates: What are you doing with my mother?
- Duane Duke: Don't you mean mummy? You did a nice job on her Norman. Fresh as the day she croaked.”
Anthony Perkins - Norman Bates
Jeff Fahey - Duane

“- Norman Bates: You smell like... like the toasted cheese sandwiches.
- Mary: What?
- Norman Bates: That my mother used to bring me when I was in bed with a temperature. She used to do lots of nice things for me before she went... before she became...
- Mary: Shh. Just remember the good things she did for you. Only the good things.”
Anthony Perkins - Norman Bates
Meg Tilly - Mary Loomis

“- Dr. Alex Durant: Did you ever meet Commander Reinhardt?
- Harry Booth: Collided with him would be a more accurate description.”
Anthony Perkins - Dr. Alex Durant
Ernest Borgnine - Harry Booth

“- Norma Bates: She's a whore.
- Norman Bates: But we didn't do anything.
- Norma Bates: You let her come between us.”
Virginia Gregg - Norma Bates
Anthony Perkins - Norman Bates

“The messenger of God will return. And this time he'll bring the final word.”
Anthony Perkins - Peter Shayne

“- Mary: Do you know what it's like trying to sleep in a one-room apartment when a couple's making love five feet from you?
- Norman Bates: Noisy?”
Meg Tilly - Mary Loomis
Anthony Perkins - Norman Bates

“- Norman Bates: Are you really my mother?
- Mrs. Spool: The name Spool doesn't mean anything to you?
- Norman Bates: No. Should it?
- Mrs. Spool: It was Norma Bates' maiden name. The woman you thought was your mother was my sister.”
Anthony Perkins - Norman Bates
Claudia Bryar - Mrs. Emma Spool

“- Sheriff Hunt: I was for you then. Believed in you. You made a fool of me. Look, what you did to yourself. Why, Norman, why? Good God son. You'll never get out again. We're gonna have you locked up forever.
- Norman Bates: But I'll be free. I'll finally be free.”

Hugh Gillin - Sheriff John Hunt
Anthony Perkins - Norman Bates

“- Peter Shayne: Don't fight me, child. I'm the messenger of God and I only want to heal you.
- China Blue: Heal thyself, pimp shit!”
Anthony Perkins - Peter Shayne
Kathleen Turner - China Blue

“- Dr. Kate McCrae: Alex, I'm beginning to feel you want to go with him.
- Dr. Alex Durant: On a glorious pilgrimage straight into what may be the mind of God. I do. I do.”

Yvette Mimieux - Dr. Kate McCrae
Anthony Perkins - Dr. Alex Durant

“- Norma Bates: 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?”
Virginia Gregg - Norma Bates
Anthony Perkins - Norman Bates

“- Dr. Hans Reinhardt: Are you interested in black holes?
- Dr. Alex Durant: How can one not be overwhelmed by the deadliest force in the universe.
- Dr. Kate McCrae: That long dark tunnel to nowhere.
- Dr. Hans Reinhardt: Or somewhere! These are exactly answers yet to be explored.”
Maximilian Schell - Dr. Hans Reinhardt
Anthony Perkins - Dr. Alex Durant
Yvette Mimieux - Dr. Kate McCrae

“Your father spent eleven million dollars to raise your brother up from a skirt-chasing college-boy to President of the United States. For twenty years he told him what to do and how and why he was gonna do it and what would happen when it was done. Your father put Tim in the White House - why? Because that's where you can generate the most cash.”
Anthony Perkins - John Cerruti

“- Dr. Raymond: What's the matter?
- Norman Bates: I saw someone!
- Dr. Raymond: Where?
- Norman Bates: Up there! In that window!
- Dr. Raymond: I haven't had a tenant in the house for years.”
Robert Loggia - Dr. Bill Raymond
Anthony Perkins - Norman Bates

“- Norma Bates: Put me closer to the window.
- Norman Bates: Someone will see you, Mother.
- Norma Bates: Are you ashamed of me?
- Norman Bates: You know why, Mother. They've even written about you in the newspapers.
- Norma Bates: Stop your whining, boy. All this fuss over nothing.”
Virginia Gregg - Norma Bates
Anthony Perkins - Norman Bates

“- Norma Bates: 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.
- Norma Bates: You haven't got the guts, boy.”
Virginia Gregg - Norma Bates
Anthony Perkins - Norman Bates

“- Mary: Everything Dr. Raymond said was true. My mother and I were trying to drive you crazy again. I stopped, only she won't.
- Norman Bates: Well, why did you stop?
- Mary: It wasn't right for us to be doing what we were doing to you.
- Norman Bates: Is that the only reason?
- Mary: What do you mean?
- Norman Bates: You know what I mean.”
Meg Tilly - Mary Loomis
Anthony Perkins - Norman Bates

“You wear your anguish like a breakaway chastity belt.”

Anthony Perkins - Peter Shayne

“- Dr. Hans Reinhardt: The risk is incidental compared to the possibility to posses the great truth of the unknown. There - long cherished laws of nature - simply do not apply. They vanish!
- Dr. Alex Durant: And - life?
- Dr. Hans Reinhardt: Life? Life forever!”
Maximilian Schell - Dr. Hans Reinhardt
Anthony Perkins - Dr. Alex Durant

“- Warren Toomey: Why don't you try putting me out, Mr. Wacko?
- Norman Bates: I won't have to. I'll just go to the police. I'm sure they'll be very interested about what's going on here. Especially the drugs. Tomorrow, Mr. Toomey. And don't rent out anymore rooms in this motel! Not any more.
- Warren Toomey: At least my customers have a good...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dennis Franz - Warren Toomey
Anthony Perkins - Norman Bates