Female Student Quotes in Ghostbusters (1984)

Dr. Peter Venkman: All right, I'm gonna turn over the next card. Concentrate... I want you to tell me what you think it is.

[Holds up the card]

Male Student: Uh, square.

Dr. Peter Venkman: Good guess, but wrong.

[Turns over the card and zaps the male student]

Dr. Peter Venkman: [to the female student] Okay,

[Holds up another card]

Dr. Peter Venkman: what is this?

Female Student: Is it a star?

Dr. Peter Venkman: It "is" a star,. very good.

Dr. Peter Venkman: [to the male student, and holding up another card] Concentrate. Tell me what this is.

Male Student: Circle.

Dr. Peter Venkman: [Turns over the card] Ooohhh, Close. But most definately wrong.

[Zaps the male student again]

Dr. Peter Venkman: [to the female student] Clear your head.

[Holds up another card]

Dr. Peter Venkman: what is it?

Female Student: A figure 8.

Dr. Peter Venkman: That's 5 for 5, you can't see these can you?

Female Student: No.

Dr. Peter Venkman: You're not cheating me, are you?

Female Student: No. I swear, they're just coming to me.

Dr. Peter Venkman: [to the male student] Nervous?

Male Student: [Really is nervous] Yes, I don't like this.

Dr. Peter Venkman: [Holds up another card] We've only got 75 more to go, c'mon what this one.

Male Student: It's, a couple of wavy lines.

Dr. Peter Venkman: [Puts card down] Sorry, this isn't your lucky day.

Male Student: Yeah, I...

[Peter's hand slowly reaches for the zapping trigger]

Male Student: I uh, uh, I uh, I uh.

[Zap]

Male Student: [Annoyed] I'm getting a little tired of this.

Dr. Peter Venkman: You volunteered, didn't you? We're paying you, are we?

Male Student: Yeah, but I didn't know you we're 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: [Aggravated] Effect? I'll tell you the effect is, it's pissing me off!

Alfred Kinsey: [Kinsey is teaching his first class] Who can tell me which part of the human body can enlarge a hundred times. You, miss?

Female Student: [indignantly] I'm sure I don't know. And you've no right to ask me such a question in a mixed class.

Alfred Kinsey: [amused] I was referring to the pupil in your eye, young lady.

[class laughs]

Alfred Kinsey: And I think I should tell you, you're in for a terrible disappointment.

Male Student: Do you think there are any other anarchists still around in Paterson?

Female Student: You mean besides us? Not likely.

[first lines]

Male student: [walking past her] Bar baby!

Female student: Yeah, I heard she was born in a bar.

Luli McMullen: [narrating] You could shake your knuckles at the sky. You could get mad and say, "I don't got nothing." You could get stuck.

Professor Wagstaff: Young man, as you grow older, you'll find you can't burn the candle at both ends.

[Pinky/Harpo pulls out a candle burning at both ends]

Professor Wagstaff: Well, I was wrong. I knew there was something you couldn't burn something at both ends. I thought it was a candle. However, you must be punished. Just for that

[points to female student sitting in the classroom]

Professor Wagstaff: You stay after school.

Female Student: But, Professor, I didn't do anything.

Professor Wagstaff: I know, but there's no fun keeping him after school.

[Kevin and Julia are talking in front of a group of junior high school students]

Female Student: Is there much interaction between the two campaings? I mean, between Democrats and Republicans?

Kevin: [to Julia] Ah, I believe this is your area.

Julia: Uh, it's discouraged for campaigns to interact. For instance, if one speechwriter were to date another, they might reveal something crucial about the campaign. Some campaigns have spies for just this purpose, whose job it is to follow the speechwriter, and to seduce her--

Kevin: --Or him--

Julia: --Into revealing her secrets.

Kevin: On the other hand, some speechwriters have the tendency to become what is known as "paranoid," and just because someone seems interested in her doesn't mean they're after her "secrets."

Julia: Still, it's not paranoid to become suspicious of a "chance" encounter which isn't really chance--

Kevin: --Or someone lying about the work she does. A good speechwriter could protect herself from this situation by not flirting, you know, not sniffing around like a cat in heat.

Julia: Or she might tell the other speechwriter to his face, "Peddle your shit elsewhere, scumbag."

Jack Linden: He tried to defend all of those things to himself and suddenly felt the weakness of what he was defending - there was nothing to defend.

Unknown student: Bo-ring.

Jack Linden: Jim?

Joe Ritchie: So, everything in his life turns out to be false?

Female student: He sure doesn't do much about it.

Jack Linden: Doesn't do much? He finds God.

Female student: That tiny bit at the end? About seeing a light and there being no more pain, is that it?

Jack Linden: Heh. Well, the guy does do one major thing...

Unknown student: What's that?

Jack Linden: He dies. Or maybe Tolstoy didn't have it in his head to write some big uplifting story about the way we're supposed to live our lives. Maybe he just wanted to show us what it was like to die.

Professor Joseph Coupland: What is the supernatural? Hm? Anyone?

Female Student: Like ghosts or spirits or devils?

Professor Joseph Coupland: Those examples.

Female Student: Actions or events which we can not explain through science.

Professor Joseph Coupland: Good. Before the discovery of a pathogenic theory of medicine, people believed that sickness was caused by evil spirits. Show of hands - if you get sick, who here would rather see a priest before a doctor.

[students laugh]

Professor Joseph Coupland: Who here believes in God? Heaven? Hell? The apocalypse? Ghosts? Really? No one here believes in ghosts? interesting.