Winona Ryder: Lydia

Beetlejuice

Lydia

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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: 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.

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

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

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