Beetlejuice (1988)

Catherine O'Hara: Delia

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• [Evaluating her new home] 

  Delia : A little gasoline... blowtorch... no problem.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Otho : What happened to these people?

  Delia : They died. Oh, look, an indoor outhouse.

• Delia : This is my art, and it is dangerous! Do you think I want to die like this?

• [reading The Handbook for the Living and the Dead] 

  Charles : This thing reads like stereo instructions.

  [Harry Belafonte's "Shake Shake Senora" plays in the background] 

  Charles : Oh, sounds like Lydia got an "A" on the math test.

  [a head sculpture of the Betelgeuse snake appears next to him] 

  Charles : Jeez!

  [Charles falls out of his chair. Delia pulls the sculpture up and smiles] 

  Delia : He likes it.

• 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.

• [about the house] 

  Otho : There's absolutely no organic flowthrough.

  Delia : I noticed that too; it's like a giant... ant farm.

• Charles : Delia Deetz, welcome home.

  Delia : [being kissed]  Charles...

  Charles : It's okay, there's no damage. See? It's okay. Good, sturdy country craftsmanship. And look at that kitchen. You're finally gonna be able to cook a decent meal.

  [Delia rolls her eyes] 

• 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...

• Delia : [as Bernard, Grace, and Beryl leaves not convinced of the ghost]  This was not a hallucination. This was real. We all just experienced a super-powerful, paranormal experience, and it was real.

  Bernard : Delia, you are a flake. You have always been a flake. If you insist on frightening people, do it with your sculpture.

  [Bernard slams the door as he leaves] 

  Charles : Drive carefully!

  Delia : [aghast]  I'm dead.

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

  Delia : Shrimp.

• Delia : [talking to a workman]  If you tell me what you do, I'll tell you why my husband will fire you.

• Delia : Kids. You know, I love them.