Delia Quotes in Beetlejuice (1988)

[Evaluating her new home]

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

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.

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.

Charles: As soon as we get settled, we'll build you a dark room 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.

Charles: Delia Deetz, welcome home.

Delia: [being kissed] Charles...

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

[about the house]

Otho: There's absolutely no organic flowthrough.

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

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: What happened to these people?

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

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

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.

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

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...

Giles: You beckoned?

Delia: Date from hell. Complete waste of makeup.

Delia: Giles doesn't have any actual friends. Just exes.