Memorable Quotes from Harold Ramis
12 quotesUnexpected Discovery Among Friends
Winston Zeddemore
Hey fellas! You wanna take a look at this?
[sees the Vigo painting]
Dr. Ray Stantz
Wow!
Dr. Egon Spengler
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Dr. Peter Venkman
No, I believe it's one of the Fettuccinis.
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Experimenting with Plasm in the Subway
Dr. Raymond Stantz
We've been experimenting with the plasm we found in the subway tunnel. Careful.
Dr. Peter Venkman
Should I get spoons?
Dr. Egon Spengler
Don't bother. Watch this. Go ahead, Ray.
[Ray sets the container on the table for everyone to see]
Stantz
You! You worthless piece of slime!
[yells at the container]
Stantz
You ignorant, disgusting blob!
[slime reacts]
Spengler
You're nothing but an unstable, short-chain molecule!
[slime reacts]
Stantz
You foul, obnoxious muck!
[slime reacts]
Spengler
You have a weak electrochemical bond!
[slime reacts]
Stantz
I have seen some disgusting crud in my time, but you take the cake!
Winston Zeddemore
Whoa, whoa!
[interrupting just before it overflows its container]
Stantz
You're a – You just –
Zeddemore
Hey! Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Venkman
This is what you do with your spare time?
[beat]
Stantz
Peter, this is an incredible breakthrough. I mean, what a discovery! A psychoreactive substance! Whatever this stuff is, it responds to human emotional states.
Venkman
Mood slime. Oh, baby...
[beat; to slime affectionately]
Zeddemore
You mean this stuff actually feeds on bad vibes?
Stantz
Like a cop in a donut factory.
Spengler
We've been running tests to see if we can get an equally strong positive reaction.
Venkman
What kind of tests?
Stantz
Well, we sing to it, and, uh, we talk to it, and say...supportive, nurturing things to it...
Venkman
You're not sleeping with it, are you, Ray?
Venkman
Oh, you!
[shakes his head in disbelief]
Zeddemore
It's always the quiet ones.
[mutters]
Venkman
You hound!
[chuckles]
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Ghostbusters Prepare for Urgent Meeting with Mayor
Winston Zeddemore
Hey, guard! Look, I want to make a phone call. Yeah, I just work with these guys, but I wasn't even there!
Egon Spengler
It's not the girl, Peter, it's the building. Something terrible is about to enter our world, and this building is obviously the door. The architect's name was Ivo Shandor. I found it in Tobin's Spirit Guide. He was also a doctor. Performed a lot of unnecessary surgery. And then in 1920, he started a secret society.
Guard
Okay, Ghostbusters, the Mayor wants to see you guys. Whole island's going crazy, let's go.
Peter Venkman
I got to split, the Mayor wants to rap with me about some things.
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Pacifism and Commitment in Combat
Russell Ziskey
I've always been kind of a pacifist. When I was a kid, my father told me, "Never hit anyone in anger, unless you're absolutely sure you can get away with it." I don't know what kind of soldier I'm gonna make, but I want you guys to know that if we ever get into real heavy combat... I'll be right behind you guys. Every step of the way.
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Unity and Confusion Amidst the Crowd
Vigo
Now we become one.
Crowd
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and ne'er brought to mind...
Dr. Raymond Stantz
Where's that singing coming from?
Winston Zeddemore
The people outside!
Crowd
If auld acquaintance be forgot, remember Auld Lang Syne!
Dr. Egon Spengler
He's weakening! The singing is neutralizing the slime!
Stantz
I can move!
Spengler
He's back in the painting!
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A Father's Affection and Son's Realization
Ben's Dad
I love you. You're the best thing that ever happened to me.
Ben
I'm the best thing that ever happened to you?
Ben's Dad
Yes.
Ben
Now I'm starting to feel sorry for you.
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Musical Exchange Among Ghostbusters Characters
Dr. Peter Venkman
Do.
Dr. Raymond Stantz
Re.
Dr. Egon Spengler
Egon.
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The Consequences of Crossing the Streams
Egon Spengler
Don't cross the streams.
Peter Venkman
Why?
Egon Spengler
It would be bad.
Peter Venkman
I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad"?
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.
Ray Stantz
Total protonic reversal.
[shocked gasp]
Peter Venkman
Right. That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.
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A Meeting with the Mayor and Ghostbusters
Dr. Peter Venkman
Lenny. Big man.
Mayor Lenny
The Ghostbusters.
Winston Zeddemore
Mr. Mayor?
[holds out his hand, wanting to shake his hand]
Mayor Lenny
What is this? A slumber party?
Dr. Ray Stantz
Well, that's why we wanted to see you.
Mayor Lenny
Listen, I don't want to hear anything about it. You got two minutes. Make it good.
Dr. Ray Stantz
Well, first of all, Mr. Mayor, it's a great pleasure to see you again, and you'll be happy to know that almost fifty percent of us voted for you in the last election.
[getting started]
Mayor Lenny
I appreciate that.
Dr. Peter Venkman
I'm sorry we have to meet under these circumstances.
Dr. Ray Stantz
Mr. Mayor, we're here tonight because a psychomagnatheric slimeflow of immense proportions is building up beneath the city.
Mayor Lenny
Psycho-what?
Dr. Egon Spengler
Psychomagnatheric.
Dr. Peter Venkman
Big word, big word.
Dr. Egon Spengler
Negative human emotions that are forming into a vicious ectoplasm with *explosive* supernormal potential.
Mayor Lenny
Can somebody speak English here?
Winston Zeddemore
Uh yeah. Your honor, what we're trying to say is all of the bad feelings. You know hate, anger and the vibes of the city are turning into this sludge. I didn't believe in it either. But, we just went for a swim in it and end up almost killing each other.
Jack Hardemeyer
This is insane! Do we really have to listen to this?
[to the Mayor; aggravated]
Dr. Peter Venkman
Can't you stop your lips from flapping for 2 little minutes? Lenny, have you been out on the street lately, do you know weird it is out there? We've taken our own headcount, there seems to be 3 *million* completely miserable assholes living in the Tri-State area.
[to Hardemeyer; to the Mayor]
Jack Hardemeyer
Please.
[in disbelief]
Peter Venkman
I beg your pardon, 3 million and one.
Jack Hardemeyer
Hey.
Dr. Ray Stantz
And what fudgy brain here doesn't realize, that if we don't do something fast this whole place is gonna blow like a frog on a hot plate.
Jack Hardemeyer
Yeah, right.
[in disbelief]
Mayor Lenny
What do you want me to do, go on television and tell 3 million people they have to be nice to each other? Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's God-given right. Your two minutes are up. Good night, gentlemen.
[having enough; begins to walk off; leaves]
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Gozer the Traveler
Dr. Egon Spengler
[Egon is running tests on Louis, who has been possessed by Vinz Clortho and is now the Keymaster] Vinz, you said before you were waiting for a sign. What sign are you waiting for?
Louis
Gozer the Traveler. He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!
Vigo the Carpathian's Grueling History
Dr. Egon Spengler
Vigo the Carpathian. Born 1505, died 1610.
Dr. Peter Venkman
105 years old? He hung in there, didn't he?
Dr. Raymond Stantz
He didn't die of old age, either. He was poisoned, stabbed, shot, hung, stretched, disemboweled, drawn and quartered.
Dr. Peter Venkman
Ouch.
Winston Zeddemore
Guess he wasn't too popular at the end, huh?
Dr. Egon Spengler
No, not exactly a man of the people. Also known as Vigo the Cruel, Vigo the Torturer, Vigo the Despised, and Vigo the Unholy.
Dr. Peter Venkman
Wasn't he also Vigo the Butch?
Dr. Ray Stantz
And dig this, there was a prophecy. Just before his head died, his last words were "Death is but a door, time is but a window: I'll be back".
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Urgency and Humor Amidst the Chaos
Dr. Egon Spengler
We're running out of time, Ray, it's almost midnight. Can't you make her go any faster?
Ray Stantz
I'm afraid the vibrations will shake her to pieces. We should have padded her feet!
Egon
I don't think they make Nikes in her size, Ray.
Dr. Peter Venkman
Don't worry, she's tough. She's a harbor chick!
Ray
Sorry, my fault!
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