How we cite our quotes: All quotes are from The Sixth Sense.
Quote #4
COLE: You're Stuttering Stanley!
MR. CUNNINGHAM: Excuse me?
COLE: You talked funny when you went to school here.
When Cole and his teacher get into a disagreement in class, Cole uses some of his intel from the spirit world to fight back. Apparently, the teacher was known as "Stuttering Stanley" when he went to school there, and Cole starts repeating that nickname—over and over—to get Stanley to leave him alone. It freaks out the teacher so much that he starts stammering again.
Quote #5
COLE: I want to tell you my secret now.
MALCOLM: Okay.
COLE: I see dead people.
MALCOLM: In your dreams? While you're awake? Dead people, like, in graves, in coffins?
COLE: Walking around like regular people. They don't see each other. They only see what they want to see. They don't know they're dead.
MALCOLM: How often do you see them?
COLE: All the time.
This is the turning point in the film, and "I see dead people" is the movie's most famous line. Unfortunately, even though Cole is finally ready to come clean, Malcolm is totally not ready to hear it. Shyamalan was worried that the close-up of Malcolm's face when Cole tells him this would be a dead giveaway (pun intended) that Malcolm was one of those dead people. Instead, test audiences just saw it as a reaction shot and didn't suspect a thing.
Quote #6
MALCOLM: Cole has pathologies more severe than initially assessed. He's suffering from visual hallucinations, paranoia, some kind of school-age schizophrenia. Medication and hospitalization may be required. And I'm not helping him.
Malcolm refuses to believe that Cole is seeing ghosts, at least at first, and decides that Cole has some kind of severe pathology. To be fair, psychologists generally deal with people who have emotional problems, not people who communicate with the dead, so Malcolm's first thought is that this is a fantasy or a delusion. That Cole is really surrounded by dead people wouldn't be his first guess.