Ghostbusters quotes

View Quote Dr. Raymond Stantz: [about to capture their first ghost] Get her!

Dr. Peter Venkman: [later, when the ghost has scared them out of their wits] 'Get her'? That was your whole plan? 'Get her'? Tee hee.

View Quote Dr. Raymond Stantz: [sigh of resignation] 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.

View Quote Dr. Raymond Stantz: Cold-riveted girders, with cores of pure selenium.
Dr. Peter Venkman: [to everyone who's not a Ghostbuster] Everyone getting this so far?
So what? I guess they just don't make them like they used to.
Dr. Raymond Stantz No! Nobody ever made them like this! The architect was either a certified genius or an authentic wacko!

View Quote Dr. Raymond Stantz: Don't look directly at the trap!
Dr. Egon Spengler: I looked at the trap, Ray!

View Quote Dr. Raymond Stantz: Everything was fine [with our system] 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. [slight pause] This man has no dick.
[Peck then tries to attack Dr. Venkman but is kept away by others in the room]
Dr. Peter Venkman: Well, that's what I heard!
[Note: Censored version has Venkman saying "This man is some kind of rodent, I don't know which".]

View Quote Dr. Raymond Stantz: Hey. Where do these stairs go?
Dr. Peter Venkman: They go up.

View Quote Janine Melnitz: Do you believe in UFOs, astral projections, mental telepathy, ESP, clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full trance mediums, the Loch Ness monster and the theory of Atlantis?
Winston Zeddemore: Ah, if there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say.

View Quote Janine Melnitz: Would you like some coffee, Mr. Tully?
Louis Tully: [To Egon] Do I?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Yes, have some.
Louis Tully: Yes, have some!

View Quote Louis Tully: [after the Containment Unit explodes thanks to Walter Peck] This is it! This is the sign!
Janine Melnitz: Yeah, it's a sign alright. We're going out of business!

View Quote Louis Tully: I am the Keymaster!
Dana Barrett: I am the Gatekeeper!

View Quote 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 ****roach up on twelfth [the twelfth floor].
Man at Elevator: That's gotta be some ****roach.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Bite your head off, man.
Dr. Ray Stantz: [entering elevator] Going up?
Man at Elevator: I'll take the next one.
(Inside the elevator.)
Dr. Ray Stantz: You it' just occurred to me that we really haven't had a successful test of this equipment.
Dr. Egon Spengler: I blame myself.
Dr. Peter Venkman: So do I.
Dr. Ray Stantz: Well, no sense worrying about it now.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Why worry? Each of us is wearing an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back.
Dr. Ray Stantz: Yeah. Well, let's get ready. Switch me on.
(Egon turns on Ray's pack. It emits a strange sound and begins humming. Egon backs away from it.)

View Quote Teenage Nerd:[Venkman has just administered a static electric shock to him] HEY!! I'm getting a little TIRED of this!!!
Dr. Peter Venkman: You volunteered, didn't you?! We're paying you, aren't we?
Teenage Nerd: Yeah, but I didn't know you were going to give me electric shocks!! What are you trying to prove here, anyway?
Dr. Peter Venkman: I'm studying the effect of negative reinforcement on ESP ability.
Teenage Nerd: THE EFFECT?!! I'll tell you what the effect is! IT'S PISSING ME OFF!!!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Well then maybe my theory is correct!!!
Teenage Nerd: You can KEEP the five bucks, I'VE HAD IT!!
Dr. Peter Venkman: I WILL, Mister!! (Teenage Nerd slams the door behind him on his way out.) You may as well get used to that. That's the kind of resentment your gift is gonna provoke in a lot of people.
Teenage Girl: You really think I've got it, Dr. Venkman?
Dr. Peter Venkman: You're no fluke, Jennifer.

View Quote Walter Peck: Captain, I want these men arrested! They're in criminal violation of the Environmental Protection Act! And this explosion is the direct result of it!
Dr. Egon Spengler: YOUR MOTHER!!!

View Quote Winston Zeddmore: Hey, wait a minute. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hold it! Now, are we actually gonna go before a federal judge, and tell him that some moldy Babylonian God is going to drop in on Central Park West, and start tearing up the city?!
Dr. Egon Spengler: Sumerian, not Babylonian.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Yeah. Big difference.
Winston Zeddmore: No offense, guys, but I've gotta get my own lawyer.

View Quote [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 oughta 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...DIEEE!!
[Gozer begins shocking the Ghostbusters with lighting]
Winston Zeddmore: Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say "YES!!"