Norma Louise Bates quotes from Bates Motel

Norma Bates

Every time I walk out the door, it's gonna be, "Oh, what a beautiful day. Hey, that's where Deputy Shelby bled to death".

Norma Bates

[to Norman] Norman, did you know that having sex with a woman literally affects her physical being? There are chemicals that are released in a woman's body during and after sex that actually alter her. It's like a science experiment. It affects her mind, okay? That's dangerous stuff. That's not something you want to be dabbling around in for fun.

Norma Bates

I had an idea when I moved here of how life was gonna be. And, oh, okay, sure, while life can be disappointing, no one prepared me for the colossal frickin' face-dive off a cliff that living in this crazy-ass town really is.

Norma Bates

You've got to stand up for yourself in life. You can't let the world run over you.

Norma Bates

[to George] You want to know why you don't get me? Because you can't get me. You will never get me. You think you know what life is, that it's something you just stay on top of with your soft words and your nice summer jacket? You come from a whole world of people who are not real. You don't understand anything. You're just sleepwalking through life. You have no real troubles. You sit there in your little playhouses with your cocktails, and you judge the rest of us.

Norma Bates

[about her mother] It's her hair ribbon. She used to...she used to tell me how she wore it to a dance in high school with a blue dress. You know that's the only memory I have of her where she sounded happy? She gave it to me when I was little, and I-I always kept it. I-I always hoped that she would be that person again.

Norma Bates

I don't know if I can keep living my life. There's so much I have to deal with every day. I don't feel like I'm dealing with any of it.

Norma Bates

[to Dylan about Caleb] I can't let him back in my life, Dylan. Don't ask for the moon, okay? Just because we had one operatic meeting in the middle of a field doesn't mean we're all gonna hang out now and go bowling together.

Norma Bates

[to Norman] Don't ever let anyone's words come between us. They're meaningless. This is the only thing that's real. You and me.

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.

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

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?

Louise

Oh, get off of me!

You will take that back! No!