Sam Wheat quotes from Ghost (1990)

Sam Wheat

It's amazing, Molly. The love inside, you take it with you. See ya.

Oda Mae

Where exactly are you?

Sam

I'm standing right beside you.

Oda Mae

Oh, you're standing right beside me?
Oda Mae's Sister: Honey, we're right here.

Oda Mae

Are you white?

Sam

WHAT?
Oda Mae's Sister: White?

Oda Mae

You're white, aren't you?
Oda Mae's Sister: You know what I think?
Oda Mae's Other Sister: Yes, I'm gonna call the doctor right now.

Oda Mae

I knew it. It's a white guy. Why me?

Sam

Listen, damn it. You are going to help me. There's a woman. Her name is Molly Jensen and she's in terrible danger. The man who killed me broke into our apartment and he's gonna go back. So you've gotta warn her.

Oda Mae

Just what makes you think she's gonna listen to me?

Sam

It's just a phone call. Look, you're all I've got. Now, I'm not leaving until you help me. I don't care how long it takes, 'cause I could talk forever.

Sam

Molly, you're in danger.

Oda Mae

You can't just blurt it out like that! And quit moving around, because you're starting to make me dizzy. I'll just tell her in my own way. [pause] Molly, you in danger, girl.

Oda Mae

He's stuck, that's what it is. He's in between worlds. You know it happens sometimes that the spirit gets yanked out so fast that the essence still feels it has work to do here.

Sam

Would you stop rambling?

Oda Mae

I don't think I'm rambling, I'm just answering the question. He's got a attitude now.

Sam

I don't have an attitude.

Oda Mae

Yes, you do have an attitude. If you didn't have an attitude, you would not have raised your voice at me now, would you?

Sam

God dammit...

Oda Mae

Don't you "God dammit" me. Don't you take the Lord's name in vain with me. I don't take that!

Sam

Would you relax?

Oda Mae

No, you relax, you're the dead guy!

Sam

How long have you been here?

Since they pushed me.

Sam

Someone pushed you?

Yeah, someone pushed me.

Sam

Who?

What? You don't believe me? You think I fell? You think I jumped? Well, **** you! It wasn't my time! I wasn't supposed to go! I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE!

Oh, I'd give anything for a drag. Just one drag!

...What the hell are you doing? You're trying to push that with your finger. You can't push it with your finger! You're dead! It's all in your mind. The problem with you is that you still think you're real. You think you're wearing those clothes? You think you're crouched on that floor? Bullshit! You ain't got a body no more, son! [Taps his forehead] It's all up here now! You want to move something, you got to move it with your mind! You got to focus, you hear what I'm sayin'?

Sam

How? How do you focus?

I don't know how you focus! You just focus!

Sam

How did you do that?

You take all your emotions! All your pain, all your love, all your passion, all your rage! Just push it all the way down into the pit of your stomach! And then let it explode, like a reactor! Pow!
[the Subway Ghost kicks a soda can across the floor]

Oda Mae

Give this 4 million dollars to a bunch of nuns? How big a jackass do you take me for?

Sam

Think of it this way: you'll go to Heaven.

Oda Mae

I don't wanna go to Heaven, I wanna go to the bank and cash this STUPID CHECK!

Sam

I'm proud of you, Oda Mae.

Oda Mae

You know something, Sam? I don't care if you're proud of me. You just stay away from me from now on. What is that nun going to do with it? She can't even buy underwear. NOTHING! I HATE YOU! Leave me alone! Never talk to me again!

Sam

I think you're wonderful, Oda Mae!
[She stops and gives a raspberry to Sam. Meanwhile, one of the nuns looks at the check and faints]

Sam

I love you, Molly. I've always loved you.

Ditto.