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“You know what? Fuck you! How about that?”
— Tony Montana, Scarface
Tagged: Fuck You
“This country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.”
— Tony Montana, Scarface
Tagged: Money, Power, Women
“Hey guys just wanted to remind you to drink some water, call your mom, and make sure you’re registered to vote.”
— Jodie, Your Daily Reminder
Tagged: vote, hydration
“Lydia: Are you the guys hiding out in the attic?

Adam: We're ghosts!

Lydia: What do you look like under there?

Adam: Aren't you scared?

Lydia: I'm not scared of sheets. Are you gross under there? Are you Night of the Living Dead under there? Like all bloody veins and pus?

Adam: Night of the what?

Lydia: Living Dead. It's a movie.

Barbara: You know, if I had seen a ghost at your age I would have been scared out of my wits.”
— Lydia Deetz, Beetlejuice
Tagged: night of the living dead, Ghosts
“Messenger: How do I look? There are no mirrors on this side.

Adam: Fine, you look fine.

Messenger: Yeah?

Barbara: Fine.

Messenger: Thanks, I've been feeling a little flat. [he laughs and goes through the crevice in the filing room]”
— Messenger, Beetlejuice
Tagged: Mirrors, Insecurity, Life After Death
“Lydia: They don't wanna come down.

Delia: Charles...

Otho: Why not?

Lydia: I think the reason is, is that they were trying to scare you away, and you didn't get scared.

Delia: Please, they're dead. It's a little late to be neurotic.”
— Lydia Deetz, Beetlejuice
Tagged: neurotic, Scared
“Adam: Cabin fever, hon?

Barbara: Well, I can't clean anything properly. The vacuum's out in the garage and we can't leave the house. Why don't they tell us something? I mean, where are all the other dead people in the world? Why is it just you and me?

Adam: Maybe this is heaven.

Barbara: In heaven there wouldn't be dust on everything.”
— Adam Maitland, Beetlejuice
Tagged: cabin fever, vacuum cleaner, Dust, Heaven
“I'll eat anything you want me to eat. I'll swallow anything you want me to swallow. But, come on down and I'll...chew on a dog! Arroooo!”
— Betelgeuse, Beetlejuice
Tagged: Hunger, Gluttony
“What's the good of being a ghost if you can't frighten people away?”
— Barbara Maitland, Beetlejuice
Tagged: Ghost, scaring people
“I'm just doin' my job, besides, I thought we had a deal! Hey, it's OK. You know why? I don't wanna do business with you deadbeats anyway. The only one I think I can deal with is Edgar Allan Poe's daughter. I think she understands me.”
— Betelgeuse, Beetlejuice
Tagged: Deadbeats, Edgar Allan Poe
“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, Beetlejuice
Tagged: relax, noise-free, skeleton key
“If you tell me what you do, I'll tell you why my husband will fire you.”
— Delia Deetz, Beetlejuice
Tagged: Bossy, You're Fired
“Juno: [as Adam and Barbara come back to the afterlife] You two have really screwed up! I received word that you allowed yourselves to be photographed, and you let Betelgeuse out and didn't put him back, and you let Otho get hold of the handbook!

Adam: Handbook? When?

Juno: [rolls her eyes] Never trust the living! We cannot have a routine haunting like yours provide proof that there is existence beyond death.”
— Juno, Beetlejuice
Tagged: screwed up, Handbook, Living, haunting, Life After Death
“Otho: I have a feeling there's something very interesting behind that door.

Delia: [sarcastically] Yeah. Ghosts. The people who died in this house and they want us OUT of here. Well, let's do them a favor...”
— Otho, Beetlejuice
Tagged: Ghosts, haunting
“Char Man: Want a cigarette?

Adam: No, thank you.

Char Man: I'm trying to cut down myself.”
— Adam Maitland, Beetlejuice
Tagged: Cigarettes
“Adam: It's the first day of our vacation, and you haven't been out of the kitchen since five a.m.

Barbara: [proudly] I always make the flag cake.

Adam: Fifty stars, thirteen stripes. Did you get it right this year?”
— Adam Maitland, Beetlejuice
Tagged: vacation, flag cake
“Beetlejuice: You know, you look like somebody I can relate to. Maybe you could help me get out of here, you know, because I got to tell you, this dead thing... it's just too creepy. See, here's my problem. I got these friends I said I'd meet, and it's the kind of thing where I have to be there in person, so could you help me get out of here?

Lydia: I want to get in.

Beetlejuice: Why?...You know, hey, you probably got your reasons. I can't do anything from here. If you could get me out, then maybe we could talk or something.”
— Betelgeuse, Beetlejuice
Tagged: creepy
“Adam: You've read our book?

Lydia: Yeah.

Adam: You can follow it?

Lydia: Yeah. Why were you guys creeping around in Delia's bedroom?

Adam: We were trying to scare your mother.

Lydia: Stepmother. Anyway, you can't scare her. She's sleeping with Prince Valium tonight.”
— Adam Maitland, Beetlejuice
Tagged: Valium, Prince Valium, Prince Valiant
“These aren't my rules. Come to think of it, I don't have any rules.”
— Betelgeuse, Beetlejuice
Tagged: Rules, No Rules
“[a fly appears in the Maitland home, it flies onto the model of the town, then lands near the graveyard area]
Beetlejuice: [pops out of a crack] Hey! Hey, you! Hey, come here!

[fly stops, looks Betelgeuse's direction while the hands hold up a Zagnut candy bar]
Beetlejuice: Got something good for ya... Here, boy. Wanna come on over? Have a bite? Want something to nosh?

[enticed by the bar, the fly comes closer, quite hesitant...]
Beetlejuice: [laughs] Come here! [grabs the fly and pulls him into the crack, throws the Zagnut aside]

The Fly: Help me! Help me! Help meeeee! [a burp is heard]”
— Betelgeuse, Beetlejuice
Tagged: zagnut, force-feeding, candy
“Dumb Football Player: Coach. Coach, where's the men's room?

Juno: I'm not your coach! He survived!

Dumb Football Player #2: Wait, coach, let me get something straight. What's our curfew around here?

Juno: Will you get out of here! Go on, get downstairs! 'Men's room!' Are you kidding? Can't you read signs?”
— Juno, Beetlejuice
Tagged: men's room, curfew
“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, Beetlejuice
Tagged: basement, dark room, Miserable, New York City, the sticks
“Delia: Charles, I will not stop living and breathing art just because you need to relax.

Charles: Ha.

Delia: I'm here with you. I will live with you in this hellhole, but I must express myself. If you don't let me gut out this house and make it my own, I will go insane, and I will take you with me!

Charles: [after a long pause] Yeah, well you know, maybe the house could use a little remodeling. Uh...But, why don't you just leave this room alone, okay?

Delia: [smiles] Okay.

[Delia and Otho leave as Charles goes furious]

Barbara: [furiously] I'm gonna get her.”
— Delia Deetz, Beetlejuice
Tagged: Art, hellhole, insane, Revenge
“[to Lydia, about the owner of the finger he pulled out of a wedding ring] I'm tellin' ya, honey, she meant nothin' to me. Nothin' at all!”
— Betelgeuse, Beetlejuice
Tagged: wedding ring
“Bernard: Otho, I didn't realize you were into the supernatural.

Otho: Well, of course! You remember, after my stint with the Living Theatre. I was one of New York City's leading paranormal researchers, until the bottom dropped out in '72.

Beryl: [cynically] Paranormal—is that what they're calling your kind these days?

Otho: Don't mind her. She's still upset, because somebody dropped a house on her sister. [Delia laughs]”
— Bernard, Beetlejuice
Tagged: Supernatural, New York City, Paranormal
“Barbara: [after Jane did not hear Adam call her] She didn't see you, right?

Adam: Uh-uh.

Barbara: [reading the handbook] In the book: 'Rule Number Two: the living usually won't see the dead.'

Adam: 'Won't' or 'can't'?

Barbara: It just says 'won't'. God, this book is so stupid. I can't understand anything in it. [Adam takes the book and closes it]

Adam: Barb, honey...we're dead. I don't think we have very much to worry about anymore.”
— Barbara Maitland, Beetlejuice
Tagged: Ghosts, zombies
“Beetlejuice: I'm feeling a little, ooh, anxious if you know what I mean. It's been about six hundred years after all. I wonder where a guy, an everyday Joe like myself, can find a little action... [a brothel appears, he dances with joy] Hey Adam, nice move!

Barbara: Adam, why did you build that?

Adam: I didn't! [Adam and Barbara appear at Juno's office]

Juno: The whorehouse was my idea! I want you to get Beetlejuice out of the picture!”
— Betelgeuse, Beetlejuice
Tagged: Whorehouse, Anxious
“Let's turn on the juice and see what shakes loose.”
— Betelgeuse, Beetlejuice
Tagged: Rhymes, Juice, Loose
“Things seem pretty quiet. Thank God you didn't die in Italy.”
— Juno, Beetlejuice
Tagged: Quiet, thank God, Italy
“They wanted me to dissect a frog, I told them it was against my religion.”
— Lydia Deetz, Beetlejuice
Tagged: Frog, dissection, Religion

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