"I wanted him to be pure electricity, that's why the hair just sticks out. At my house I started creating a walk and a voice. I got some teeth. I wanted to be scary in the look and then use the voice to add a dash of goofiness that, in a way, would make it even scarier. I wanted something kind of moldy to it, too. Tim had the striped-suit idea and we added the big eyes. I think that movie will go forever because it's 100% original."

"Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!"

"We're ghosts!"

"[about Beryl] Don't mind her. She's still upset because someone dropped a house on her sister."

"Charles, I will not stop living and breathing art just because you need to relax. 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!!!"

"[realizing that Adam and Barbara are ghosts] The funeral. God. You guys really are dead."

"My whole life is a darkroom. [slowly, for effect] One. Big. Dark. Room."

"[last lines; talking to a witch doctor] Pardon me. [referring to Harry the Hunter] Did you do that? Nice work. Lemme ask you somethin'. How do you get 'em so small? [Distracting the witch doctor] There goes Elvis! Yo, King! [witch doctor looks away, he switches his ticket with witch doctor's] Well, looks like I'm next. Good thing, too. ("

"Well...what do we got here tonight, kids? [sees the Maitlands] Oooo, well, we got the, uh, Maitlands. Uh, I think, uh, they've had enough "exorcise" for tonight. [mimes a golf swing and the Maitlands fall onto the floor]"

"It's showtime!"

"Nobody says the "B" word."

"I'm the ghost with the most, babe."

"We come for your daughter, Chuck."

"[to Otho] Not so fast, round boy. We're gonna have some laughs! [Kisses Otho on the cheek and laughs]"

"Thank you. Thank you. That, is why I won't do two shows a night anymore, babe, I won't."

"Attention, K-Mart shoppers!"

"YOU BUNCHA LOSERS!!! YOU'RE WORKIN' WITH A PROFESSIONAL HERE!!! [kicks over a tree; quietly observes it for a moment] NICE FUCKIN' MODEL!!!! [grabs his crotch and squeezes it twice with a bike horn sound]"

"Hey, these aren't my rules! Come to think of it, I don't have any rules!"

"I'll eat anything you want me to eat, I'll swallow anything you want me to swallow, so come on down and I'll...chew on a dog! [howls]"

"[after his head spins] Don't you hate it when that happens?"

"[calmly] Ah, well, I attended Juilliard, I am a graduate of the Harvard Business School, I travel quite extensively, I lived through the Black Plague and I had a pretty good time during that, [getting aggressively more demented] I've seen The Exorcist about 167 TIMES, AND IT KEEPS GETTIN' FUNNIER EVERY SINGLE TIME I SEE IT! NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT YOU'RE TALKIN' TO A DEAD GUY! NOW WHAT DO YOU THINK?! [calmly] You think I'm qualified?"

"Let's turn on the juice and see what shakes loose."