Bates Motel quotes

Norman

Mom?

Louise

( gasps )

You liked it.

Louise

( grunts and screams )

Dylan Massett

Interesting morning in White Pine Bay. Burnt up dude drives into a ditch in front of your new hotel? How rude. You know, it's a really nice town you picked here, Norma, to start a new life and all, you know?

Norma Bates

Stop calling me Norma.

Dylan Massett

[about Norman and Emma] Do you think that she has to take that thing out of her nose when they make out?

Dylan Massett

You're a damn joke, Norman. You let that bitch run you like a puppet.

Norman Bates

She doesn't run me. She cares about me. And she's not a bad person, she's just not perfect! At least she tries, you son of a bitch!

Dylan Massett

You don't get it, do you, Norman? She's ruined you.

Have you noticed what these people do for a living? Artisanal cheese, organic pig farms. And yet, most of these people, somehow, they're all living in million-dollar homes. They're driving European cars. The town, it was built on the logging industry, but all that collapsed with the tree huggers. I'm just saying that there are there's different ways to produce an economy, and it's not always what it seems.

Norma Bates

But surely you can't allow illegal things, bad things to happen here.

The people in this town, they deal with things in a different way, but it gets dealt with.

Norma Bates

And what about the guy who was burned?

It'll be dealt with. An eye for an eye. It'll get handled.

Norman Bates

This is all a little peculiar.

Emma Decody

No. You know what's peculiar? A 17-year-old boy using the word "peculiar".

Dylan Massett

[to Norman] Can I give you some advice? You gotta cut that shit out. "Mother?" It's just weird.

Dylan Massett

This where they shot Deliverance?

What's that?

Dylan Massett

A movie. Ya know, "Boy, you got a pretty mouth."

What kinda movies you watch?

Dylan Massett

The kind where bad things happen to people in the middle of the woods.

Norman Bates

[to Emma] Maybe you're right. Maybe this is real. But finding out what happened to this girl isn't gonna make a difference to anyone. She's still gonna be dead, you're still gonna be sick, and I'm still gonna be who I am.

Norman. I probably shouldn't be telling you this, but my daughter has quite a crush on you. And you seem like a nice kid. And I know you know she has a lot of, um, problems. She's not strong, and she's very young. Just a regular girl in many ways. So please be decent.

Norman Bates

I am decent.

Norman Bates

You had every right to defend yourself.

Norma Bates

But I didn't defend myself. I killed the crap out of him!

Norman Bates

Whatever.

Norma Bates

Did you just "whatever" me?

Norman Bates

You don't just walk away from your parents.

Dylan Massett

Of course you do. We all do. I mean, isn't that the point?

Dylan Massett

[about Norma] She lives for the drama. She's like a addict, Norman. And when you have an addict in your life, the best thing you can do for them, and for yourself, is walk away.