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Charles Deetz

Charles Deetz

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Charles: I'm not sure this is the right environment for Lydia. Snakes, ghosts...

Delia: Shrimp.

— Charles Deetz (Jeffrey Jones), Beetlejuice

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Charles: As soon as we get settled, we'll build you a dark room in the basement, okay?

Lydia: My whole life is a dark room. One big dark room.

Delia: So you were miserable in New York City, and now you're going to be miserable out here in the sticks. At least someone's life hasn't been upheaved.

— Charles Deetz (Jeffrey Jones), Beetlejuice

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Lydia: I was just trying to open the door. Mrs. Butterfield brought over a skeleton key.

Charles: Let me have it.

Lydia: But it doesn't work. [She hands her father the key. He looks at it and throws it in the corner]

Charles: Skeleton keys never work. Anyway, this can wait. We'll get a crowbar later. Where's your mother?

Lydia: Stepmother.

Charles: I'm going down to relax. I want a noise-free zone. Do you understand? Noise-free. [he goes down the stairs]

Lydia: Dad?

Charles: [irritated, over his shoulder] What?

Lydia: I'm lonely.

Charles: What?

Lydia: Nothing.

— Charles Deetz (Jeffrey Jones), Beetlejuice

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