Psycho (1960)

John Gavin: Sam Loomis

Photos 

5 more photos

Quotes 

• Sam Loomis : Sometimes Saturday night has a lonely sound, you ever notice that Lila?

• Sam Loomis : You mean the old woman I saw tonight wasn't Mrs. Bates?

  Sheriff Al Chambers : Now wait a minute, Sam, are you *sure* you saw an old woman?

  Sam Loomis : Yes! In the house behind the motel! I called and I pounded, but she just ignored me!

  Sheriff Al Chambers : You mean to tell me you saw Norman Bates' mother?

  Lila Crane : It had to be - because Arbogast said so too. And the young man wouldn't let him see her because she was too ill.

  Sheriff Al Chambers : Well, if the woman up there is Mrs. Bates... who's that woman buried out in Greenlawn Cemetery?

• Sam Loomis : Bob! Run out and get yourself some lunch, will you?

  Bob Summerfield : Oh, that's okay, Sam, I brought it with me.

  Sam Loomis : Run out and eat it!

• Lila Crane : Look, that old woman, whoever she is, she told Arbogast something. I want her to tell us the same thing.

  Sam Loomis : Hold it, you can't go up there.

  Lila Crane : Why not?

  Sam Loomis : Bates.

  Lila Crane : Then, let's find him. One of us can keep him occupied while the other gets to the old woman.

  Sam Loomis : You'll never be able to hold him still even if he doesn't want to be held. And, I don't like you going into that house alone.

  Lila Crane : I can handle a sick old woman!

• Sam Loomis : I've been doing all the talking so far, haven't I? I thought it was the people who were alone most of the time who did all the talking when they got the chance. Here you are doing all the listening. You are alone, aren't you?

  Norman Bates : [nodding]  Hm-hmm.

  Sam Loomis : Would drive me crazy.

  Norman Bates : I think that would be a rather extreme reaction, don't you?

  Sam Loomis : Just an expression. What I meant was, I'd do just about anything to get away, wouldn't you?

  Norman Bates : No.

• Marion Crane : Oh, we can see each other. We can even have dinner but respectably in my house with my mother's picture on the mantel and my sister helping me broil a big steak for three.

  Sam Loomis : And after the steak, do we send Sister to the movies? Turn mama's picture to the wall?

• [first lines] 

  Sam Loomis : You never did eat your lunch, did you?

  Marion Crane : [on the bed in her underwear]  I better get back to the office. These extended lunch hours give my boss excess acid.

  Sam Loomis : Why don't you call your boss and tell him you're taking the rest of the afternoon off? It's Friday anyway - and hot.

  Marion Crane : What do I do with my free afternoon? Walk you to the airport?

  Sam Loomis : Well, we could laze around here a while longer.

  Marion Crane : Checking out time is 3 P.M. Hotels of this sort are interested in you when you come in, but when your time is up... oh Sam, I hate having to be with you in a place like this.

  Sam Loomis : Married couples deliberately spend occasional night in a cheap hotels.

  Marion Crane : When you're married you can do - a lot of things - deliberately.

• Sam Loomis : When I send my ex-wife her alimony, you can lick the stamps.

  Marion Crane : I'll lick the stamps.

• Marion Crane : I haven't even been married once yet!

  Sam Loomis : Yeah, but when you do - you'll swing.

• Sam Loomis : Arbogast? Arbogast! Arbogast!

• Sam Loomis : No Arbogast. No Bates. Only the old lady at home. Sick old lady unable to answer the door - or unwilling.

• Sam Loomis : That wouldn't be a wise thing to do.

  Lila Crane : Patience doesn't run in my family.

• Sam Loomis : I don't know where to start. Except at the beginning.