“- Mary: Who did it?
- Norman Bates: My mother did, she told me so herself.
- Mary: Oh, Norman... You're mad, don't you know that? You're as mad as a hatter.”

Meg Tilly - Mary Loomis
Anthony Perkins - Norman Bates

“- Adam Meiks: You never did tell me why it is you just keep that one picture of your mother in your office.
- FBI Agent Wesley Doyle: My mother was murdered a couple days after that picture was taken. Butchered by some wacked-out killer like your dad.
- Adam Meiks: Did they ever catch him?
- FBI Agent Wesley Doyle: No.”
Matthew McConaughey - Adam Meiks
Powers Boothe - FBI Agent Wesley Doyle

“I remember my mother when she was dyin', looked all shrunk up and gray. I asked her if she was afraid. She just shook her head. I was afraid to touch the death I seen in her. I couldn't find nothin' beautiful or uplifting about her goin' back to God. I heard of people talk about immortality, but I ain't seen it.”
Jim Caviezel - Pvt. Witt

“Mrs. Rosemont shouldn't say anything bad about my mother! She's in heaven 'cuz she's good!... Jesus doesn't take bad people.”
Marc Marut - Johnny McFarley

“- Rev. Graham Hess: What are you thinking about?
- Bo Hess: Why do you talk to Mom when you're by yourself?
- Rev. Graham Hess: Makes me feel better.
- Bo Hess: Does she ever answer back?
- Rev. Graham Hess: No.
- Bo Hess: She never answers me either.”

Mel Gibson - Rev. Graham Hess
Abigail Breslin - Bo Hess