Anthony Perkins credited as playing...
Norman Bates
- 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.
- 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: 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: 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.