Ghostbusters
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Ghostbusters is a 1984 film, about three unemployed parapsychology professors who start a business exterminating ghosts. It was followed by a sequel, Ghostbusters II, in 1989.
- Directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.
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[edit] Dialogue
- Dr. Egon Spengler: This is big, Peter. There's definitely something here.
- Dr. Peter Venkman: You know Egon, this reminds me of the time you tried to drill a hole in your head. Remember?
- Dr. Egon Spengler: That would have worked if you hadn't stopped me.
- Man at Elevator: What are you supposed to be, some kind of a cosmonaut?
- Dr. Peter Venkman: [chuckles] No, we're exterminators. Someone saw a cockroach up on twelfth.
- Man at Elevator: That's gotta be some cockroach.
- Dr. Peter Venkman: Bite your head off, man.
- Dr. Ray Stantz: [entering elevator] Going up?
- Man at Elevator: I'll take the next one.
- [Spengler and Stantz nearly fry a cleaning maid with their proton streams.]
- Cleaning Maid: What the hell are you doin'?
- Dr. Egon Spengler: Sorry...
- Dr. Ray Stantz: I'm sorry...
- Dr. Peter Venkman: We thought you were someone else. (turns to the other two) Successful test.
- Dr. Ray Stantz: I guess so... um, I think we should split up.
- Dr. Egon Spengler: I agree.
- Dr. Peter Venkman: Yeah, we can do more damage that way.
- Dr. Peter Venkman: [nervously staring down Slimer, he turns on his radio slowly] Come in, Ray.
- Dr. Rawmond Stantz: Venkman? I saw it, I saw it, I saw it!
- Dr. Peter Venkman: It's right here, Ray. It's looking at me.
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: Ugly little spud, isn't he?
- Dr. Peter Venkman: I think he can hear you, Ray.
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: Don't move. It won't hurt you.
- [Venkman screams as Slimer attacks him]
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: Venkamn! Venkman! Venkman! Pete! Are you okay?
- Dr. Peter Venkman: He slimed me.
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: That's great! Actual physical contact! Can you move?
- Dr. Egon Spengler: [over walkie-talkie] Ray, come in, please.
- Dr. Peter Venkman: I feel so funky.
- Dr. Ray Stantz: Spengler? I'm with Venkman. He got slimed!
- Dr. Egon Spengler: That's great Ray, save me some. You better get down here right away. It just went into a ballroom.
- Dr. Egon Spengler: There's something very important I forgot to tell you.
- Dr. Peter Venkman: What?
- Dr. Egon Spengler: Don't cross the streams.
- Dr. Peter Venkman: Why?
- Dr. Egon Spengler: It would be bad.
- Dr. Peter Venkman: I'm a little fuzzy on the whole "good/bad" thing here. What do you mean, "bad"?
- Dr. Egon Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
- Dr. Ray Stantz: Total protonic reversal!
- Dr. Peter Venkman: That's bad. Okay. All right, important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: Everything was fine until our power grid was shut off by Dickless here.
- Walter Peck: They caused an explosion!
- Mayor: [To Peter] Is this true?
- Dr. Peter Venkman: Yes, it's true... This man has no dick. [Peck then tries to attack Dr. Venkman but is kept away by others] Well, that's what I heard!
- Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
- Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"?
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath-of-God type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the sky! Rivers and seas boiling!
- Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
- Winston Zeddmore: The dead rising from the grave!
- Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice. Dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria!
- Mayor: Enough! I get the point! And what if you're wrong?
- Dr. Peter Venkman: If we're wrong, then nothing happens. We'll go to jail. Peacefully. Quietly. We'll enjoy it. But if we're right, and we can stop this thing. Lenny, you will have saved the lives of millions of registered voters.
- [Preparing to confront Gozer]
- Dr. Peter Venkman: Well, whatever it is, it's gotta get by us!
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: Right!
- Dr. Peter Venkman: Go get her, Ray!
- [Ray glares at him]
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: Gozer the Gozerian? Good evening. As a duly-designated representative of the City, County and State of New York, I order you to cease any and all supernatural activity and return forthwith to your place of origin or to the next convenient parallel dimension.
- Dr. Peter Venkman: That oughtta do it. Thanks very much, Ray.
- Gozer: Are you a god?
- [Ray looks at the others, who all nod.]
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: [hesitant] Uh...no.
- Gozer: Then... di-i-i-i-e!
- [Gozer begins shocking the Ghostbusters with lighting.]
- Winston Zeddmore: Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say "Yes!"
- Gozer: The choice is made!
- Dr. Peter Venkman: Whoa! Ho! Ho! Whoa-oa!
- Gozer: The Traveller has come!
- Dr. Peter Venkman: Nobody chose anything! [turns to Egon] Did you choose anything?
- Dr. Egon Spengler: No.
- Dr. Peter Venkman: [to Winston] Did you?
- Winston Zeddemore: My mind is totally blank.
- Dr. Peter Venkman: I didn't choose anything.
- All three: [turn to look at Ray] Ray?
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: I couldn't help it. It just popped in there.
- Dr. Peter Venkman: What? What "just popped in there?"
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: I--I--I tried to think...
- Dr. Egon Spengler: Look!
- [They all look over one side of the roof.]
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: No! It can't be!
- Dr. Peter Venkman: What is it?
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: It can't be!
- Dr. Peter Venkman: What did you do, Ray?!
- Winston Zeddemore: Oh, shit!
- [They all see a giant cubic white head topped with a sailor hat. Peter looks at Ray.]
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow man.
- Dr. Peter Venkman: [while seeing Stay-Puft walk towards the building and the Ghostbusters] Well, that's something you don't see every day.
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something that I loved from my childhood. Something that would never ever possibly destroy us. Mr. Stay-Puft.
- Dr. Peter Venkman: Nice thinking, Ray.
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: We used to roast Stay-Puft Marshmallows by the fire at Camp Waconda.
- Dr. Peter Venkman: [looks at Egon] Ray has gone bye-bye, Egon. What have you got left?
- Dr. Egon Spengler: Sorry, Venkman. I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.
[edit] About Ghostbusters
- Rarely has a movie this expensive provided so many quotable lines.
[edit] Taglines
- They're Here To Save The World.
- Coming To Save The World This Summer.
- We're Ready To Believe You.
- Who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters!
- The supernatural spectacular
- They ain't afraid of no ghost.
- The world's most successful comedy
[edit] Cast
- Bill Murray - Dr. Peter Venkman
- Dan Aykroyd - Dr. Raymond Stantz
- Harold Ramis - Dr. Egon Spengler
- Sigourney Weaver - Dana Barrett
- Rick Moranis - Louis Tully
- Annie Potts - Janine Melnitz
- William Atherton - Walter Peck
- Ernie Hudson - Winston Zeddmore
- David Margulies - Mayor
[edit] External links
- Ghostbusters quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- Ghostbusters at Rotten Tomatoes

