Beetlejuice (1988)

Winona Ryder: Lydia

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• Adam : You can see us without the sheets?

  Lydia : Of course I can see you.

  Adam : Well, how is it you see us and nobody else can?

  Lydia : Well, I've read through that handbook for the recently deceased. It says: 'live people ignore the strange and unusual". I myself am strange and unusual.

  Barbara : You look like a regular girl to me.

• Lydia : Mr. and Mrs. Maitland? Hello? Where are you?

  Beetlejuice : Dead. Dead, dead, deadski.

  Lydia : Of course they're dead. They're ghosts.

  Beetlejuice : No, I mean they're gone, split, out of here, afterlife kids, deceased...

  Lydia : Are you a ghost, too?

  Beetlejuice : I'm a ghost with the most, babe.

• Charles : As soon as we get settled, we'll build you a darkroom 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.

• Beetlejuice : [Trying to get Lydia to guess his name, he makes a beetle appear]  Hi! How are ya' ?

  Lydia : [Gasps]  Ahhhh, B-Beetle!

  Beetlejuice : Ah, OK! Now, two...

  Lydia : [Conjures a glass of orange juice that pours into a glass]  Uhhh, Breakfast... Orange... Orange Beetle... Uh, Beetle Fruit... Beetle Breakfast... Uhhh, Beetle Drink... Uh Beetle, uhh, uhh, uhhh... Beetle Juice?

  Beetlejuice : Yes! That's it!

  Lydia : Your name's "Beetle Juice"?

  Beetlejuice : Ahh, you said it twice. Just say it once more, come on!

  Lydia : It was you, wasn't it?

  Beetlejuice : What? Me?

  Lydia : The snake.

  Beetlejuice : No, what snake? You kids and your imaginations. Just say it!

  Lydia : No... I want to talk to Barbara.

  Beetlejuice : No, you don't need to talk to Barbara. JUST SAY IT!

• 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.

• Lydia : [Lydia is writing a suicide note]  I am alone.

  [throws paper away and starts over] 

  Lydia : I am *utterly* alone.

• Preacher : And you, do you, Lydia, take this man...?

  Lydia : [Interrupting]  No! Beetle...

  Beetlejuice : [covers Lydia's mouth with his hand]  She's a little bit nervous. Uh, maybe I should answer for her, okay?

  [speaks in Lydia's voice] 

  Beetlejuice : I'm Lydia Deetz and I'm of sound mind. The man next to me is the one I want. You asked me, I'm answering. Yes, I love that man of mine.

• 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 : 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 : [while eating Cantonese food]  I plan to have a stroke from the amount of MSG that's in this food.

• Otho : [while Lydia shows them the attic]  Fabulous. 'Otho Fenlock's Locked Door Ghosts' Probably committed suicide up there. I'm totally enchanted.

  Delia : They're in there? They must live like animals.

  Charles : It's locked. How'd they get in?

  Delia : [bangs on the door]  Open this door, you dead people, or we'll bust it down and we'll drag you out by the ropes you hang yourselves with!

  Lydia : Shh! They didn't commit suicide.

  Delia : It doesn't matter. Lydia, I have a chance to teach you something here: you have got to take the upper hand in all situations or people, whether they're dead or alive, will walk all over you.

• 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.

• [On the new house] 

  Lydia : Delia hates it.

  [sees a HUGE spider on a web] 

  Lydia : I could live here.

• Barbara : What's wrong?

  Lydia : Beetle...

  Barbara : Shhh!

  Lydia : HE told me that if I could let him out, he would take me to the other side to find you.

  Barbara : Lydia, we're dead.

  Lydia : Well, I want to be dead too.

  Barbara : No! Lydia, being dead really doesn't make things any easier.

  Adam : Listen to her on this, Lydia, this is something we know a lot about!

• Adam : How is it that you can see us but nobody else can?

  Lydia : Well, I read in that "Handbook For The Recently Deceased". It says, "Live people ignore the strange and unusual." I, myself, am strange and unusual.

  Barbara : You look like a regular girl to me.

• Lydia : [Lydia hears wild moaning through the wall and assumes it's her stepmother Delia]  God, how can you stand that woman...

• Lydia : If you are real ghosts, you guys better get another routine because those sheets, they don't work.

• Charles : Pumpkin... sweetheart...

  [kisses her and forces her out his study room] 

  Charles : Go help your mother.

  Lydia : Maybe *you* can relax in a haunted house, but I can't.

• Lydia : They wanted me to dissect a frog, I told them it was against my religion.

• Lydia : [On Otho's seance]  Wait... what am I worried about, Otho, you can't even change a tire.

• Lydia : You're not gross. Why are you wearing sheets?

  Barbara : We're Practicing.

  Adam : You can see us without the sheets.

  Lydia : [seriously]  Of course I can see you.

  Adam : Well, how else if you see us and nobody else can?

  Lydia : Well I read through that handbook for the recently deceased. It says, 'Live people ignore the strange and unusual.' I myself am strange and unusual.

  Barbara : You like a regular girl to me.

  Adam : You read our book?

  Lydia : Yeah.

  Adam : You could follow it?

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

  Adam : Well, we were trying to scare your mother.

  Lydia : Stepmother.

  Lydia : [continues]  Anyway, you can't scare her. She's sleeping with Prince Valium tonight.