Top 50 Psycho Quotes

Psycho 11 and III say, in effect, there’s no way to survive with a psychological problem. If you’ve got it, the law can keep you locked up because there’s no chance for cure.

I think the older I get, the more psycho I get.

Duncan Sheik and I are trucking along on ‘American Psycho,’ which is sort of the anti-Superman, you know? But it’s a lot of fun, too, in a much, much darker way, obviously.

I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.

I think ‘North by Northwest’ and ‘Rope’ and Rear Window’ and ‘Psycho’ are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.

In Psycho IV, the time is five years after III, and Norman is out of the hospital. He’s a married man, and he’s finally learned how to love somebody and have natural sex without killing his lover.

When you’re watching Psycho, there’ s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you’re not, and that’s where the celebration comes in.

I think we all have different personalities… and even in relationships, we can be called psycho, and we can be called sweet, based on what the person feels about you.

Maybe I’m just a psycho, and the stage is a better place to go than either the loony bin or somewhere else.

I wrote a ‘Lenny Letter’ on a whim, and it felt indulgent, but people came up to me with tears in their eyes saying, ‘Thank you.’ There’s so much shame about mental illness in our country and so many stereotypes about women being ‘crazy’ or ‘psycho.’

It goes all the way back to ‘Psycho.’ Movies with twists like that are memorable because they’re so simple.

‘American Psycho’ is violent. ‘Apocalypse Now’ is violent. ‘Officer Downe’ is a comic and not violent to me.

The nice way to meet a guy is through getting to know them first. Then you can really judge their personality. What I can’t take is meeting someone, going on a date, getting to know them, then finding out they’re a complete psycho – ‘Great, I’ve just wasted all this time on you!’

I am a psycho therapist and I used to teach street children.

I always think I could play a fantastic psychopath. I’d like to play a psycho. With a heart, you know. A caring lunatic.

I’m not going to lie. I am a psycho. Luckily, I get most of it out on stage.

When you’re watching Psycho, there’ s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you’re not, and that’s where the celebration comes in.

When I meet a girl I like, I call her the next day. I don’t play that three-day rule. Maybe that’s psycho.

Nobody’s angry all the time, unless you’re a psycho.

I am a Hitchcockian – I still believe that ‘Psycho’ sets the standard for mother/son relations.

I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I’m trying to really appreciate and like men more.

Less Than Zero and American Psycho were both really different, so I was just like, Okay, he’s just really doesn’t have anything pleasant to say, you know? But I get it. I get at least why it’s difficult and what he’s really doing.

I hear the theme from ‘Psycho’ every time I take a shower. I lock the door.

‘Psycho’ is fascinating philosophically, because the point of ‘Psycho’ is that everything that’s bad happens because of love.

I want to play a psycho, something more challenging than just ‘the girlfriend’ part.

Never stay in a bad marriage, and don’t hang around with psycho coke fiends.

Sweet But Psycho’ blew up pretty much overnight after my 10-year struggle. It’s hilarious when people say it was overnight, because it was not overnight.

My wife has a good sense of humor, and instead of calling me psychic with my novels, she simply refers to me as being ‘psycho.’ That’s because multiple things in my books have come true.

‘American Psycho’ reminds me of my track in ‘Tommy,’ my first Broadway show. It’s similar conceptually and has that rock n’ roll streak.

‘Psycho’ is probably the best known example of a horror film whose exclusive sound was strings, and since then, it’s been hard to avoid that. The minute you have strings as your primary voice, the comparisons are always made.

As far as I know, Vera Miles had a terrible time with Hitchcock, and she wanted to get out of the contract. He didn’t let her. She did ‘Psycho,’ and I believe, if you look at ‘Psycho,’ there isn’t one close up of Vera, not one. After that, she would never even speak about him to anyone.

I’m just kind of odd. There are dark forces in the world, and if you pay attention to what’s going on around you, you end up incorporating it into the storytelling. Maybe it’s some aspect of myself that’s coming through that people are seeing, that I am in fact a quiet psycho.

If I was sugar-free, I’d be psycho.

I watched ‘Psycho’ a million times.

One of my favorite films is ‘Psycho,’ which I saw when I was 12.

Less Than Zero and American Psycho were both really different, so I was just like, Okay, he’s just really doesn’t have anything pleasant to say, you know? But I get it. I get at least why it’s difficult and what he’s really doing.

Shower scenes are great. Janet Leigh never took a shower again in her life after ‘Psycho’.

Vera Caspary wrote thrillers – but not like any other author of her time, male or female. Her specialty was a specific type that she pioneered – the psycho thriller.

I was a psycho in college.

When I was stalking my special lady friend on MySpace, people would always say, ‘Is this really Marilyn Manson or some kind of psycho?’ And I’m like, ‘Both.’

I suppose I was interested in creating a vision; in the same way, I was very drawn to tension within cinema. Hitchcock was my other early obsession – ‘Psycho’ and its score. So there was the sense of trying to create an atmosphere: how a sound resonates and makes an effect.

‘The Conjuring’ is incredibly effective and scary without the use of blood, gore, and death. It’s a horror film that emphasizes atmosphere and suspense in the tradition of classics like ‘Psycho’ or ‘The Others.’

I’m an actor, and I don’t look at myself as providing comic relief. I have done diverse and dark roles such as a psycho, murderer, and others in films such as ‘Don’, ‘Eklavya’ and ‘3 Idiots.’

Everybody has felt a little sweet but psycho, and I’m sure everybody has been called sweet but psycho.

Oh my gosh, I mean, I’ve had many experiences of men calling me psycho.

You know that secret novel you’ve been working on? The one that’s really about you and your friends and your psycho ex-girlfriend? The one that, if discovered, would socially annihilate you for eternity? Yeah, go ahead and burn it.

I did not have a mobile phone in 1993. No one did, except the occasional banker or Hollywood star seeming smart, or the main character in ‘American Psycho.’ In 1993, every day was ‘let’s get lost.’ I could walk Greenwich Village for hours and not be found.

I’m a master of heels. I’m used to them. I’m tiny, so I wear them all the time. Apart from to the beach. That would be slightly psycho. I’m over the top, but not that much yet.

As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun.

I think every young girl who’s been through a lot with relationships and trusting people has an inner psycho.