Bates Motel (TV Series)

Marion (2017)

Freddie Highmore: Norman Bates

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• Norma Louise Bates : You're mad because I left.

  Norman Bates : I'm not mad. Well, except in the British sense of the word, like the Mad Hatter. In that way, I am mad. But the world is full of mad people who function, many of whom are heads of state.

• Norman Bates : It's hard to be lonely. But it's also hard to love people, and I think that that's the trap.

  Marion Crane : Trap?

  Norman Bates : Yes, the little private trap that everyone lives in. And we need people, but that need can destroy us. Once you care about someone, it rules you. And who even knows, at the end of the day, if that person is really who you think they are. Or if they're even real at all.

• Marion Crane : I could eat anything right now, so whatever's easy.

  Norman Bates : Alrighty, then. One easy sandwich coming up.

• Norman Bates : The only secret between us is that you don't exist. I made you up. My mother is not here. Now get out of my way.

  Norma Louise Bates : If I'm not here, then why am I here?

  Norman Bates : Because of the girl who checked in. Because she's attractive. You see? I'm starting to understand it all now.

  Norma Louise Bates : Norman, you can't outmaneuver me.

• Norman Bates : I think for the first time in a long while, I'm actually starting to have some clarity.

  Norma Louise Bates : Nothing like a crazy person announcing their own clarity.

• Norman Bates : Forget Sam. And just start over. All right? Start over and and start a new life for yourself. Here...

  Marion Crane : That's exactly what I was going to do, but it's just so scary.

  Norman Bates : Well, you know what's scarier? Being trapped inside yourself, a private trap, never getting what you want.

• Marion Crane : Parents can be a bitch.

  Norman Bates : You have no idea.

• Norman Bates : How did you end up in Los Angeles?

  Marion Crane : Like a book, we've all got a lot of chapters.