Jacob Wade: How do you make your livin'?
Riley Wade: Well, uh... I count money at the bank.
Jacob Wade: What do you do for a living, Riley?
Riley Wade: Nothing... I get along.


--Anthony Perkins (as Riley Wade) in The Lonely Man

Jacob Wade: Where ya goin'?
Jacob Wade: Feed myself.
Jacob Wade: Man feeds his horse first.
Riley Wade: Well, I guess I got a lot to learn... not from you.


--Anthony Perkins (as Riley Wade) in The Lonely Man

Norma Bates: [voice-over] No! I tell you no! I won't have you bringing some young girl in for supper! By candlelight, I suppose, in the cheap, erotic fashion of young men with cheap, erotic minds!
Norman Bates: [voice-over] Mother, please...!
Norma Bates: [voice-over] And then what? After supper? Music? Whispers?
Norman Bates: [voice-over] Mother, she's just a stranger. She's hungry, and it's raining out!
Norma Bates: [voice-over] "Mother, she's just a stranger"! As if men don't desire strangers! As if... ohh, I refuse to speak of disgusting things, because they disgust me! You understand, boy? Go on, go tell her she'll not be appeasing her ugly appetite with MY food... or my son! Or do I have tell her because you don't have the guts! Huh, boy? You have the guts, boy?
Norman Bates: [voice-over] Shut up! Shut up!


--Anthony Perkins (as Norman Bates) in Psycho

Marion Crane: Do you have any vacancies?
Norman Bates: Oh, we have 12 vacancies. 12 cabins, 12 vacancies.


--Anthony Perkins (as Norman Bates) in Psycho

Marion Crane: Taxidermy. That is a strange hobby to fill.
Norman Bates: A hobby should pass the time, not fill it.


--Anthony Perkins (as Norman Bates) in Psycho

Marion Crane: Wouldn't it be better if you put her... someplace.
Norman Bates: You mean an institution? A madhouse?
Marion Crane: No, I didn't mean it like...
Norman Bates: [suddenly angry] People always call a madhouse "someplace", don't they? "Put her in someplace!"
Marion Crane: I'm sorry. I didn't mean to sound so uncaring.
Norman Bates: What do you know about caring? Have you ever seen the inside of one of those places? The laughing, and the tears, and those cruel eyes studying you? My mother there?
[subdued tone]
Norman Bates: Oh, but she's harmless. She's as harmless as one of those stuffed birds.
Marion Crane: I tried to mean well.
Norman Bates: People always mean well. They cluck their thick tongues, and shake their heads and suggest, oh, so very delicately!


--Anthony Perkins (as Norman Bates) in Psycho

Alexis: That's a good girl...!


--Anthony Perkins (as Alexis) in Phaedra

Dennis Pitt: Boy. What a week. I met you on Monday, fell in love with you on Tuesday, Wednesday I was unfaithful, Thursday we killed a guy together. How about that for a crazy week, Sue Ann?
Sue Ann Stepanek: "Unfaithful Wednesday?"
Dennis Pitt: I was just joking, Sue Anne. That was in another country. Forget it. I do, no kidding, love you. I love you.


--Anthony Perkins (as Dennis Pitt) in Pretty Poison

Dennis Pitt: I once did some unlicensed tree surgery. I foolishly performed an abortion on a peach tree.


--Anthony Perkins (as Dennis Pitt) in Pretty Poison

Josh Birdwell: I don't want to die. I don't think I could kill anyone if I tried. But I have to try, so long as other people have to.


--Anthony Perkins (as Josh Birdwell) in Friendly Persuasion