Poltergeist Quotes

Carol Anne Freeling: They're here!

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Diane: You were saying about poltergeist.
Dr. Lesh: Poltergeists are usually associated with an individual. Hauntings seem to be connected with an area. A house usually.
Marty: Poltergeist disturbances are fairly short duration. Perhaps a couple of months. Hauntings can go on for years.
Diane: Are you telling me that all of this could just suddenly end at any time?
Dr. Lesh: Yes, it could. Unless it's a haunting. But hauntings don't usually revolve around living people.
Diane: Then we don't have much time, Dr. Lesh, because my daughter is alive somewhere inside this house.

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Dr. Lesh: Well, I'm off. Now these tapes, I am going to have to present them you know.
Steve: But please, not on 60 Minutes.
Diane: Or That's Incredible.

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Robbie: Hey Mom! When it rots can we dig up the bones?

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Steve: Not much room for pool is there?
Teague: We own all the land. We have already made arrangements to relocating the cemetery.
Steve: Oh, you're kidding. Oh, come on. I mean that's sacrilege, isn't it?
Teague: Oh, don't worry about it. After all, it's not ancient tribal burial ground. It's just... people. Besides we have done it before.

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Tangina: [On The Phone] Dr Seaton? Kane found Carol Anne, and it's all your fault.

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Tangina: It lies to her. It tells her things only a child can understand. It's been using her to restrain the others. To her, it simply is another child. To us, it is The Beast.

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Amy Bowen: Take your pants off.
Eric Bowen: Yes, ma'am. Really?
Amy Bowen: Yes.
Eric Bowen: Wow.
Amy Bowen: Take if off.
Eric Bowen: Alright.
Griffin Bowen: [Eric's pants are down just when his kid enters the room]Dad?
Eric Bowen: Yes?
Amy Bowen: Aaah!
Eric Bowen: Hey... What's up buddy?
Griffin Bowen: There's something upstairs. I think there's something in my room.
Eric Bowen: I'll be up there in a second. [the kid exits]
Eric Bowen: So much for my luck. Don't move.
Amy Bowen: Ok.
Eric Bowen: I'll be right back, think dirty thoughts.

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Madison Bowen: They're here.

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Madison Bowen: They're coming.

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Boyd: Let me ask you something. Your dad... he's been out of work a while, right?
Griffin Bowen: Yeah, I guess.
Boyd: Hmm. That's okay. Nobody's perfect. I was just thinking about it. You know if he really wanted to make some money quick... a poltergeist abduction isn't a bad idea. Even if it turned out to be a fake. You go public with it, do some TV appearances. You get your own reality show. How cool would that be?
Griffin Bowen: We don't want a reality show. We just want Maddy back.
Boyd: You're good, kid. Very good.

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Dr. Brooke Powell: Why do you do that?
Carrigan Burke: What?
Dr. Brooke Powell: You tell your old war stories and you make yourself sound like an old man.
Carrigan Burke: Comes with the territory. We age in dog years.

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Eric Bowen: [the moving truck smashed his mail box]Oh c'mon, man!

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Kendra Bowen: I'll get a job when you get a job.
Eric Bowen: Hey, she has a job! You kids are her job!

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Carrigan Burke: Brooke tells me that this development was built on a cemetery. Right?
Kendra Bowen: Dad, really?
Eric Bowen: Calm down. It's a former cemetery. Former. They moved the bodies a long time ago. They relocated...
Amy Bowen: Yeah, they moved them to a nicer neighborhood.
Carrigan Burke: I don't think that they are. I think that they just told people they moved the cemetery. I think they just moved the headstones.
Amy Bowen: And they left the bodies? Oh, my God.

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Madison Bowen: We're gonna get in big trouble.

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Eric Bowen: What happened?
Dr. Brooke Powell: That, Mr. Bowen... that's Maddy's way out. But I think we're gonna need some help in getting her there.
Amy Bowen: What kind of help?
Dr. Brooke Powell: Have you ever heard of Carrigan Burke?
Kendra Bowen: No effing way.

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Amy Bowen: Do you have kids, Mr. Burke?
Carrigan Burke: Sadly, no. My wife didn't think it was a good idea given our line of work.
Dr. Brooke Powell: It wasn't just the work.
Amy Bowen: Oh! The two of you were...
Dr. Brooke Powell: Briefly.
Carrigan Burke: We were young and stupid.
Dr. Brooke Powell: Only one of us was stupid.
Carrigan Burke: Ah, don't be so hard on yourself. I was irresistible back then.
Dr. Brooke Powell: I'm gonna check the readings upstairs.
Carrigan Burke: And she goes, just like she fled our marriage. Straight into the arms of academia. Safe, stable academia. Still misses me, though.
Dr. Brooke Powell: No, I don't.
Carrigan Burke: You do, a little.
Dr. Brooke Powell: No, not even a little bit.
Carrigan Burke: She forgets I can sense these things. I have special powers, you know.
Dr. Brooke Powell: They're not that special.

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Madison Bowen: Our last closet ate me.

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Dr. Brooke Powell: Is everything alright?
Carrigan Burke: If it was, I wouldn't be here.

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Eric Bowen: I'm counting on you.

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Eric Bowen: You're all I've got, so let's do it.

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[repeated line] Carrigan Burke: This house is cleaned!

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Eric Bowen: We just want our daughter back, okay? We just want our daughter back.

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Boyd: Screw it.

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[first lines] Amy Bowen: Griffin, what did I say?
Griffin Bowen: I'm in the middle of a game.
Amy Bowen: You can't play that in the car unless you take your Dramamine.
Eric Bowen: Too late for Dramamine. We're practically there.

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