Poltergeist (1982)
JoBeth Williams: Diane Freeling
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Quotes
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Tangina : Help me tie this around my waist.
Diane Freeling : What do you think you're doing?
Tangina : I'm going in after her.
Diane Freeling : She won't come to you. Let me go.
Tangina : You've never done this before.
Diane Freeling : Neither have you.
[pause]
Tangina : You're right. You go.
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Carol Anne Freeling : [burying the canary, Carol Anne says a prayer] Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
Dana Freeling : [sarcastically] Oh brother!
Diane Freeling : [to Dana] Stifle it.
Carol Anne Freeling : If I shall die before I wake...
Dana Freeling : [whispers to Diane] It did.
Carol Anne Freeling : ...I pray the Lord my soul to take.
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Dana Freeling : Are you gonna do something about this?
Diane Freeling : About what?
Dana Freeling : Your new gray!
Diane Freeling : Oh! You don't like it? You don't think it's kinda punk?
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Tangina : [offscreen upstairs] Why is this door locked, Mr. Freeling?
[Steve Freeling closes his eyes, clasps his hands, and appears to be concentrating for several seconds]
Diane Freeling : [quietly] Answer her, Steven!
Steve Freeling : [sotto voce] I *am*.
Tangina : [steps out to the top of the stairs] I am addressin' the living!
Steve Freeling : I'm sorry. Sorry. That's the room my son and daughter used to occupy.
Dr. Lesh : We believe it's the heart of the house.
Tangina : This house has many hearts.
[Tangina steps away from the stairtop. Diane approaches Steven]
Diane Freeling : [quietly] What is the matter?
Steve Freeling : [with laughter] "What's the matter"?
Steve Freeling : [he composes himself, whispers] I was trying to answer her with my mind and she couldn't hear me.
Steve Freeling : [to Dr. Lesh, whispering even softer] Now, I thought you said this Tangina Barrons was an *extraordinary*...
Tangina : I *am*!
Steve Freeling : ...clairvoy...
Tangina : [steps out again] I just don't like trick answers.
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Diane Freeling : Sweetheart, last night, when you said "They're here'...
Carol Anne Freeling : Can I take my goldfish to school?
Diane Freeling : Sweetheart, do you remember last night when you woke up, and you said "They're here'?
Carol Anne Freeling : Uh huh.
Diane Freeling : Well, who did you mean?
Carol Anne Freeling : The TV People.
Robbie Freeling : She's stoned.
Dana Freeling : Oh yeah? What do you know about it?
Robbie Freeling : More than you. Ask Dad.
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Diane Freeling : TV people?
Carol Anne Freeling : Uh-huh.
Diane Freeling : Do you see them?
Carol Anne Freeling : Uh-uh. Do you?
Diane Freeling : Uh-uh.
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Diane Freeling : Carol Anne - listen to me. Do *not* go into the light. Stop where you are. Turn away from it. Don't even look at it.
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Diane Freeling : So you better get Brian to bring you home right after dinner because Dad wants us to stay at the Holiday Inn on I-74.
Dana Freeling : Oh, yeah. I remember that place.
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Steve Freeling : You know Teague, he won't take "Go to Hell" for an answer.
Diane Freeling : What are you going to do?
Steve Freeling : I'm gonna give him directions.
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Diane Freeling : You were saying about poltergeists.
Dr. Lesh : Poltergeists are usually associated with an individual. Hauntings seem to be connected with an area. A house usually.
Marty : Poltergeist disturbances are of a fairly short duration. Perhaps a couple of months. Hauntings can go on for years.
Diane Freeling : Are you telling me that all of this could just suddenly end at any time?
Dr. Lesh : Yes, it could. Unless it's a haunting. But hauntings don't usually revolve around living people.
Diane Freeling : Then we don't have much time, Dr. Lesh, because my daughter is alive somewhere inside this house.
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Steve Freeling : Tomorrow I'm going to call someone.
Diane Freeling : Like who? I looked in the Yellow Pages. "Furniture Movers" we've got; "Strange Phenomenon", there's no listing.
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Diane Freeling : Ahhh... this is probably going to be seem a little strange. We hear better on this channel. Don't ask me why. Well... ah... I guess I will call her. Carol Anne. Ah... it's mommy, sweetheart. Ah, we want to talk to you. Please answer me, baby. Please answer me. Please talk to me, bunny.
Marty : Look at the dog.
Diane Freeling : Are you with us now? Can you... can you say hello to daddy?
Carol Anne Freeling : Hello, daddy.
Steve Freeling : Hello, sweet pea.
Diane Freeling : It's mommy, sweetheart.
Carol Anne Freeling : Hello, mommy.
Diane Freeling : Hello, baby. Can you see me? Can you see mommy?
Carol Anne Freeling : Mommy? Where are you? Where are you?
Diane Freeling : We're home, baby. We're home. Can you find me? Can you find a way to us, baby?
Carol Anne Freeling : Mommy, where are you? I can't find you. I can't. I'm afraid of the light, mommy. I'm afraid of the light.
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Diane Freeling : She just moved through me. My God. I felt her. I can smell her. It's her. It's her. Smell my clothes. It's her. She's all over me. It's her. She's on me. It's her. I felt her. It's her. It is. It's... it is... it's my baby. It's my baby. She went through my soul.
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Diane Freeling : [the canary has died] Oh... Oh shit, Tweety, couldn't you have waited until a school day?
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Diane Freeling : Look, I'm the one who has had to live with this freaky thing all day. It's like another side of nature, that you and I aren't qualified to understand. When you overreact, it makes what happened much too important.
Steve Freeling : No one is going into the kitchen until I know what's happening.
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Carol Anne Freeling : Mommy didn't cook any dinner.
Diane Freeling : We'll go to Pizza Hut, all right?
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Tangina : You can't choose between life and death when we're dealing with what is in between. Now tell her before it's too late.
Diane Freeling : Run to the light, baby. Mommy is in the light.
Tangina : Tell her you're waiting for her.
Diane Freeling : Mommy's waiting for you in the light.
[under her breath to Tangina]
Diane Freeling : I hate you for that.
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Diane Freeling : Don't touch my baby!
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Diane Freeling : You bastard. She's just a baby. Help her. Help her. Can you hear what's happening? Help her.
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Diane Freeling : We were wondering if you had experienced any... disturbances?
Ben Tuthill : What kind of disturbances?
Diane Freeling : Oh, you know... dishes or furniture, moving around by themselves.
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Dana Freeling : I'll go check the kitchen!
Steve Freeling : No! No, I'll do it! I'll check the kitchen, you check your room!
Steve Freeling : Carol Anne!
Dana Freeling : Carol Snne!
Diane Freeling : Carol Anne! Sweetheart!
Steve Freeling : Diane!
Diane Freeling : Did you find her?
Steve Freeling : No, I looked everywhere! This is crazy!
Diane Freeling : Oh my! My God! She is in the swimming pool, the swimming pool, the swimming pool!
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Dr. Lesh : Well, I'm off. I'm taking these back to the lab along with the tapes. I'm going to have to display these, you know.
Steve Freeling : Please, not on "60 Minutes".
Diane Freeling : Or "That's Incredible!".
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Steve Freeling : No. I'll do it. Let me go.
Diane Freeling : You can't go. You're the only one strong enough to hold the rope.
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Steve Freeling : I'm outta here! See ya early.
Robbie Freeling : I'm outta here!
Diane Freeling : You I can handle.
Robbie Freeling : I got school!
Diane Freeling : Breakfast first.
Robbie Freeling : All right, I'll just flunk.
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Diane Freeling : The TV people?
Carol Anne Freeling : Up there.
Diane Freeling : Do you see them?
Carol Anne Freeling : Uh uh... do you?
Diane Freeling : Uh uh.
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Dr. Lesh : Well, I'm off. I'm taking these back to the lab along with the tapes. I'm going to have to display these, you know.
Steve Freeling : Please, not on "60 Minutes".
Diane Freeling : Or "That's Incredible!"
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Diane Freeling : Mmmmm... smell that mimosa.
Steve Freeling : Well you better cut a bouquet and take it with you, because we're not staying.
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Diane Freeling : God, *help me!*
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Diane Freeling : How is it?
Pool Worker #1 : Great, Mrs. Freeling!
Diane Freeling : Okay Bluto, give me my cup.
Pool Worker #1 : You sure make good coffee!
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Dana Freeling : Mom! I'm going to dinner with Janice and Brian.
Diane Freeling : Is your room all packed up?
Dana Freeling : Everything but the bed!
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Diane Freeling : Jesus, don't do that. You wanna see your mommy lying in a cigar box covered in licorice?
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Carol Anne Freeling : That burned!
Diane Freeling : Sorry, baby, floor needed more wax.
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Diane Freeling : Get away from my baby.
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Tangina : Tell her to go to the light!
Diane Freeling : No!
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Diane Freeling : Carol Anne? Listen to me! Do not go into the light! Stop where you are! Turn away from it! Don't even look at it!
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Steve Freeling : Honey, honey, honey. Honey, a three-meter board, it's like an air pocket, sweetheart. When you dive off, it's like free-falling, okay? You got to get your position now. These feet are positioning.
Diane Freeling : Honey?
Steve Freeling : Three meters!
Diane Freeling : Honey, your diving days are over.
Steve Freeling : We're talking Olympics, Diane. Okay?
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Diane Freeling : Oh, God, I love it when you talk dirty!
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Diane Freeling : You know, once I slept-walked four blocks. And I fell asleep in the back of this guy's car. He drove all the way to work before discovering me. Oh, God, I woke up, I started screaming. People came running from everywhere. They called the cops. The cops came. They took this poor dude downtown. My father...
Steve Freeling : Big...
Diane Freeling : Ed. Big Ed has me examined for like bruises and hickeys, you know, you name it. God, I was so embarrassed.
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Diane Freeling : Now just stand, okay? Now, just be calm. Okay. Now reach back into our past when you used to have an open mind. Remember that? Okay. Just try to use that for the next couple of minutes. Okay?
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Diane Freeling : It's like there's this tickling, you know, right in here. And it starts to pull you. The tickling pulls you. All of a sudden it's like there's no air, except that you can breathe. And - and you're getting pulled along...
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Diane Freeling : Look at all of them.
Robbie Freeling : Is that our house? Who are all those people?
Dr. Lesh : They're so lonely. So alone.
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Tangina : Tell her if she doesn't answer you, she's gonna get a spanking.
Steve Freeling : Come on, I've never spanked the children.
Diane Freeling : Honey, please, just tell her.
Steve Freeling : Carol Anne? Answer your parents or you'll get a real spanking from both of us!
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Robbie Freeling : Good night, Mom.
Diane Freeling : Good night, sweetie.
Robbie Freeling : Good night, lady. Good night, Dad.
Steve Freeling : Good night, Rob. I love you.
Robbie Freeling : [looks at the TV] Good night, Carol Anne.