Anthony Perkins

“A boy's best friend is his mother.”

“I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world of motion pictures.”

“I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to be channeled in some way.”

“I was a homosexual, and I was also a drug addict, and I was an alcoholic. So I was a mess.”

“There are many of us who have this illness and we should be reaching out to each other and helping each other.”

“Hitchcock was a man of great taste and great humor and great intellect.”

“My early work is my best work. I was better in my 20s than I was in my 30s. Then I got asked to do this one movie, Psycho.”

“I think it was a big mistake not to get a college education.”

“I choose to live in what I think is the most exciting period in the history of the world.”

“We all go a little mad sometimes.”

“I'm not Norman Bates. I'm an actor who played a part.”

“I've played so many strange roles, but I think that was a good thing for me. I think it made me a better actor.”

“I like to go to the movies at season's end, when the tourists have left.”

“I'm a leading man with a character actor's soul.”

“I am not my own man, I am my mother's boy!”