“Ghostbusters” quotes

(1984)
Movie Ghostbusters
Ivan Reitman directed this movie in 1984
Title Ghostbusters
Original title Ghost Busters
Year 1984
Director Ivan Reitman
Genre Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Plot – Peter, Raymond and Egon are expelled from university, but their partnership against the ghosts that inhabit New York and cause troubles, works wonders. It's a tough fight, but our heroes are not afraid of anything, not even the evil.
All actors – Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts, William Atherton, Ernie Hudson, David Margulies, Steven Tash, Jennifer Runyon, Slavitza Jovan, Michael Ensign, Alice Drummond, Jordan Charney, Timothy Carhart, John Rothman, Tom McDermott, Roger Grimsby, Larry King, Joe Franklin, Casey Kasem, John Ring, Norman Matlock, Joe Cirillo, Joe Schmieg, Reginald VelJohnson, Rhoda Gemignani, Murray Rubin, Larry Dilg, Danny Stone, Patty Dworkin, Jean Kasem, Lenny Del Genio, Frances E. Nealy, Sam Moses, Christopher Wynkoop, Winston May, Tommy Hollis, Eda Reiss Merin, Ric Mancini, Kathryn Janssen, Stanley Grover, Carol Ann Henry, James Hardie, Frantz Turner, Nancy Kelly, Paul Trafas, Cheryl Birchenfield, Ruth Oliver, Kymberly Herrin, Murray Bandel, Larry Bilzarian, Matteo Cafiso, John De Bello, Paddi Edwards, Eldo Ray Estes, Deborah Gibson, Wendy Goldman, Willow Hale, Ron Jeremy, Charles Levin, Joseph Marzano, Joe Medjuck, Frank Patton, Harrison Ray, Ivan Reitman, Frank Rivers, Mario Todisco, Bill Walton, Mark Bryan Wilson
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  • - Dr. Raymond Stantz: Are you troubled by strange noises in the middle of the night?
    - Dr. Egon Spengler: Do you experience feelings of dread in your basement or attic?
    - Dr. Peter Venkman: Have you or your family ever seen a spook, spectre or ghost?
    - Dr. Raymond Stantz: If the answer is "yes", then don't wait another minute. Pick up the phone... (continue)
    (continue reading)

    Dan Aykroyd - Dr. Raymond Stantz
    Harold Ramis - Dr. Egon Spengler
    Bill Murray - Dr. Peter Venkman
    [Tag:fear, ghosts, noise]
  • “- Dr. Raymond Stantz: You have been a participant in the biggest interdimensional cross rip since the Tunguska blast of 1909!
    - Louis Tully: Felt great.
    - Dr. Egon Spengler: We'd like to get a sample of your brain tissue.”

    Dan Aykroyd - Dr. Raymond Stantz
    Rick Moranis - Louis Tully
    Harold Ramis - Dr. Egon Spengler
    [Tag:brain, experience]
  • “- Janine Melnitz: I read a lot myself. Some people think I'm too intellectual but I think it's a fabulous way to spend your spare time. I also play raquetball. Do you have any hobbies?
    - Dr. Egon Spengler: I collect spores, molds, and fungus.”

    Annie Potts - Janine Melnitz
    Harold Ramis - Dr. Egon Spengler
  • - 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.

    Bill Murray - Dr. Peter Venkman
    David Margulies - Mayor
    Dan Aykroyd - Dr. Raymond Stantz
    [Tag:city, danger, god]
  • “- Winston Zeddmore: Judgement day.
    - Dr. Raymond Stantz: Every ancient religion has its own myth about the end of the world.
    - Winston Zeddmore: Myth? Ray, has it ever occurred to you that maybe the reason we've been so busy lately is 'cause the dead have been rising from the grave?”

    Ernie Hudson - Winston Zeddmore
    Dan Aykroyd - Dr. Raymond Stantz
  • “- Winston Zeddmore: Hey Ray. Do you believe in God?
    - Dr. Raymond Stantz: Never met him.”

    Ernie Hudson - Winston Zeddmore
    Dan Aykroyd - Dr. Raymond Stantz
    [Tag:belief, god, meeting]
  • “- Dana Barrett: Zuul was the minion of Gozer. What's Gozer?
    - Dr. Peter Venkman: Gozer was very big in Sumeria.
    - Dana Barrett: Well, what's he doing in my ice box?
    - Dr. Peter Venkman: I'm working on that.”

    Sigourney Weaver - Dana Barrett
    Bill Murray - Dr. Peter Venkman
    [Tag:monster]
  • “- 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 Zeddmore: Ah, if there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say.”

    Annie Potts - Janine Melnitz
    Ernie Hudson - Winston Zeddmore
  • “- Male Student: I didn't know you were gonna be giving me electric shocks. What are trying to prove here, anyway?
    - Dr. Peter Venkman: I'm studying the effect on negative reinforcement on ESP ability.
    - Male Student: Effect? I'll tell you the effect is, it's pissing me off!”

    Steven Tash - Male Student
    Bill Murray - Dr. Peter Venkman
  • “- Dr. Raymond Stantz: Well, no sense in worrying about it now.
    - Dr. Peter Venkman: Why worry? Each one of us is carrying an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back.”

    Dan Aykroyd - Dr. Raymond Stantz
    Bill Murray - Dr. Peter Venkman
    [Tag:danger, ghosts, worry]
  • “If the ionization-rate is constant for all ectoplasmic entities, we can really bust some heads... in a spiritual sense, of course.”
    Dan Aykroyd - Dr. Raymond Stantz
    [Tag:fighting, ghosts]
  • “Personally, I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities, we didn't have to produce anything! You've never been out of college! You don't know what it's like out there! I've worked in the private sector. They expect results.”
    Dan Aykroyd - Dr. Raymond Stantz
  • “- Dr. Raymond Stantz: Wait, wait, wait! I've always wanted to do this.
    [he yanks a tablecloth off of a table, overturning and shattering everything except the centerpiece in the middle]
    - Dr. Peter Venkman: [triumphantly] And the flowers are still standing!”

    Dan Aykroyd - Dr. Raymond Stantz
    Bill Murray - Dr. Peter Venkman
    [Tag:dreams, inability]
  • “- Walter Peck: Exactly what are you a doctor of, Mr. Venkman?
    - Dr. Peter Venkman: Well, I have a PhD in parapsychology and psychology.
    - Walter Peck: And now, you catch ghosts?”

    William Atherton - Walter Peck
    Bill Murray
    [Tag:doctors, ghosts]
  • “Well, there's something you don't see every day.”

    Bill Murray - Dr. Peter Venkman
    [Tag:monster, new york]
  • “- Dr. Peter Venkman: Egon, this reminds me of the time you tried to drill a hole through your head. Remember that?
    - Dr. Egon Spengler: That would have worked if you hadn't stopped me.”

    Bill Murray - Dr. Peter Venkman
    Harold Ramis - Dr. Egon Spengler
    [Tag:head, wound]
  • “- 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. Raymond Stantz: Total protonic reversal!
    - Dr. Peter Venkman: Right. That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.”

    Harold Ramis - Dr. Egon Spengler
    Dan Aykroyd - Dr. Raymond Stantz
    Bill Murray - Dr. Peter Venkman
    [Tag:advice, danger, life]
  • “- 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 nearest convenient parallel dimension.
    - Dr. Peter Venkman: [sarcastically] That oughta do it....” (continue)
    (continue reading)

    Dan Aykroyd - Dr. Raymond Stantz
    Bill Murray - Dr. Peter Venkman
  • “- Dana Barrett: Do you want this body?
    - Dr. Peter Venkman: Is this a trick question?”

    Sigourney Weaver - Dana Barrett
    Bill Murray - Dr. Peter Venkman
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