This compilation features memorable Otho Quotes from the Beetlejuice Movie, showcasing his unique and often comical perspective on various situations.
Otho’s Humorous and Sarcastic Otho Quotes
“Help!”
“It’s bad luck.”
“Of course you are.”
“Charles, you’re lucky the yuppies are buying condos so you can afford what I’m going to have to do to this place.”
“Let’s get this show on the road. We’re dealing with negative entertainment potential. There’s absolutely no organic flow through.”
“I thought I saw something.”
“You read my mind.”
“So few clients are able to read my mind. They’re not open to the experience.”
“We just have to pray the other closets are bigger than this one. Look! Ozzie and Harriet. What happened to these people?”
“Viridian.”
“(Opens the can of spray paint and sprays some on the wall) Blue green. Hydrated chromic oxide. Remember, I’m schooled in chemistry. I was a hair analyst.”
“Briefly.”
“Deliver me from L.L. Bean.”
“Once you cover the wallpaper, knock down a few walls, this place may be livable. What’s on the third floor?”
“Did you feel something?”
“You don’t have a key?”
“I have a feeling there’s something very interesting behind this door.”
“Of course! You remember. After my stint with the Living Theater, I was one of New York’s leading paranormal researchers until the bottom dropped out in ’72.”
“Don’t mind her. She’s still upset because somebody dropped a house on her sister.”
“Lydia, favor us about your ghosts.”
“Oh, Delia, lighten up.”
“That’s cute, Delia.”
“We’re dealing with Tracy and Hepburn here. A very sophisticated pair. They even appear in sheets.”
“This is it, Charles. You can get Maxie Dean up here now.”
“Sarah loves the supernatural. She’ll have him sprint up here in his helicopter… if you can produce ghosts for her.”
“Why not?”
“Fabulous! Otho Fenlock’s ‘Locked Door Ghosts!’ Probably committed suicide up there. I’m enchanted.”
“I don’t know.”
“It’s too late, Charles. I’m sorry.”
“It’s sectional. Get it both ends.”
“Careful!”
“Oh, they’re still here. They’re just hiding out. Probably feel guilty about what they did to me.”
“Not so fast, Round Boy. We’re gonna have some laughs.”
Otho’s Perspective on the Supernatural
“[to Beryl] I hope it wasn’t yet another of your dreary suicide attempts. You know what they say about people who commit suicide? In the afterlife, they become civil servants.”
“If I’m properly motivated.”
“I know just as much about the supernatural as I do about interior design.”
“Oh, you family types. You’ve got other things to worry about. Maxie Dean’s coming up here tonight. You’ve gotta figure out a way to sell those ghosts. I can only do so much.”
“I’ll be needing something personal of theirs.”
“The wedding clothes.”
“The words. Hands vermillion, start of five. Bright cotillion, raven’s dive. Nightshade’s promise, spirits strive. To the living, let now the dead come alive.”
“‘As sudden thunder pierces night, as magic wonder mad affright, rives asunder man’s delight, our ghost, our corpse, and we rise to be.’”
“As flies the lizard, serpent fell, as goblin vizard at the spell, the buried, dead and slain rise again.”
“It will be tricky, but… I think I can handle it.”
“I’ll be needing something personal of theirs.”