Lydia Deetz [About her stepmother, Delia]
She's sleeping with Prince Valium tonight.
Played by Winona Ryder 
Beetlejuice (1988) · 34 quotes
Beetlejuice (1988) · 34 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in Beetlejuice (1988): in 11 of its 34 quotes
Most scenes with: Betelgeuse/"Beetlejuice" (2), Delia Deetz (2)
I plan to have a stroke from the amount of MSG that's in this food.
More lines from Lydia Deetz
3 quotes Lydia Deetz Lydia Deetz My whole life is a darkroom. [Slowly, for effect] One. Big. Dark. Room.
Lydia Deetz [realizing that Adam and Barbara are ghosts]
The funeral. God. You guys really are dead.
Scenes with Lydia Deetz
7 scenes
I can't believe we're eating Cantonese. Is there no Szechuan up here?
Lydia I plan to have a stroke from the amount of MSG that's in this food.
This is our first meal in this house, so why don't we all do our little private parts to make it a pleasant one?
Charles Don't bait your mother, Pumpkin. As soon as we get settled, we'll build you a darkroom in the basement.
Lydia My whole life is a darkroom. One. Big. Dark. Room.
So you were miserable in New York City, and now you're going to be miserable out here in the sticks. At least someone's life hasn't been upheaved.
Lydia [On the new house]
Delia hates it. [sees a huge spider on a web] I could live here.
Charles Pumpkin, sweetheart... [kisses her and forces her out his study room] Go help your mother.
Lydia Maybe you can relax in a haunted house, but I can't.
Lydia Are you the guys hiding out in the attic?
We're ghosts!
Lydia What do you look like under there?
Aren't you scared?
Lydia I'm not scared of sheets. Are you gross under there? Are you Night of the Living Dead under there? Like all bloody veins and pus?
Night of the what?
Lydia Living Dead. It's a movie.
You know, if I had seen a ghost at your age I would have been scared out of my wits.
You can see us without the sheets?
Lydia Of course I can see you.
Well, how is it you see us and nobody else can?
Lydia Well, I've read through that handbook for the recently deceased. It says: 'live people ignore the strange and unusual. I, myself, am strange and unusual.
You look like a regular girl to me.
You've read our book?
Lydia Yeah.
You can follow it?
Lydia Yeah. Why were you guys creeping around in Delia's bedroom?
We were trying to scare your mother.
Lydia Stepmother. Anyway, you can't scare her. She's sleeping with Prince Valium tonight.
Lydia They don't wanna come down.
Charles...
Why not?
Lydia I think the reason is, is that they were trying to scare you away, and you didn't get scared.
Please, they're dead. It's a little late to be neurotic.
Lydia Mr. and Mrs. Maitland? Hello? Where are you?
Dead. Dead, dead, deadski.
Lydia Of course they're dead. They're ghosts.
No, I mean they're gone, split, out of here, afterlife kids, deceased-ahh.
Lydia Are you a ghost too?
I'm a ghost with the most, babe. [Gets up from his lounge chair] Y'know, you look like somebody I can relate to. Maybe you could help me get out of here, you know, 'cause I gotta tell you: this dead thing is- [Picks up and eats a beetle from the ground] -it's just too creepy. See, here's my problem; I got these friends on the outside I said I'd meet, y'know, and but it's the kind of thing I have to be there in person, y'know, so I was just wondering could you help me get out of here?
Lydia [Sighing sadly]
I want to get in.
Lydia Mr. and Mrs. Maitland? Hello? Where are you?
Beetlejuice
[laying on a lounge chair on the balcony of Dante's Inferno]
Dead. Dead, dead, deadski.
Lydia Of course they're dead. They're ghosts.
Beetlejuice
No, I mean they're gone, split, outta here, afterlife kids, deceased-ahh.
Lydia Are you a ghost too?
Beetlejuice
I'm the ghost with the most, babe. [gets up from his lounge chair] Y'know, you look like somebody I can relate to. Maybe you could help me get outta here, y'know, 'cause I gotta tell ya: this dead thing is- [picks up and eats a beetle from the ground] -it's just too creepy. See, here's my problem; I got these friends on the outside I said I'd meet, y'know, and it's the kinda thing I have to be there in person, y'know, so I was just wondering...could you help me get outta here?
Lydia [sighs sadly]
I wanna get in.
Beetlejuice
[confused]
Why?...Y'know, hey, you probably got your reasons. I can't do anything from here. If you could get me out', over there, then maybe we could talk or somethin'. But y'know, in order to do that, you gotta say my name 3 times.
Lydia Okay. What is your name?
Beetlejuice
I can't tell ya. [considers] You play Charades?
Lydia Yeah. All right: two words.
Beetle
Yo. [disappears]
Lydia A… "Beetle"?
Beetlejuice
[shows her a jug of orange juice]
Lydia Orange juice, beetle breakfast, orange beetle, beetle… juice?
Beetlejuice
Aha!
Lydia Your name's "Beetle Juice"?
