Ray quotes from Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) ... Movie Quotes Database

Played by Dan Aykroyd

Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) · 14 quotes

Scenes with Ray

4 scenes

Ray Stantz

Ray's Occult, and we're closed.

Phoebe

Wait! I only get one phone call. I'm... in prison.

Ray

The slammer, huh? Heh, been there myself. I'm no lawyer, but I'm listening.

Phoebe

Are you Ray Stanz, the Ghostbuster?

Ray

And now, I'm hanging up.

Phoebe

Hang on, please! I'm calling about Egon Spengler.

Ray

[pauses]

Egon Spengler can rot in Hell.

Phoebe

He died last week.

Ray

Oh, man... No kidding.

Phoebe

Weren't you two friends?

Ray

That was a long time ago.

Phoebe

What happened to you guys?

Ray

Well, when we started, busting ghosts was a gas. The economy was good. Reagan years. People believed in us, then things got slow. Hauntings got thin. Venkman thought we did our job too well. Oh, we could barely keep up our mortgage. Some actor bought up most of Tribeca, and we lost the firehouse. It's a Starbucks now.

Phoebe

So, then you all just walked away?

Ray

Peter went back to academia. He's in SUNY Cortland now, he's a Professor Emeritus, he teaches advertising and promotion. Winston went into finance, he worked hard, coined a fortune. And I'm... here.

Phoebe

Well... what about Egon?

Ray

Well, he wasn't helping. We went from ten calls a week, to one, if we were lucky. Then Egon started to tell people their little ghost problems didn't matter because the world was coming to an end. He got spooky, freaked me out! One morning, I go to work, and Ecto-1, our old Cadillac, is gone. His neutronophone and collider pack, all the traps! Sixteen ounces of fuel isotope! All gone! He cleaned us out! Now we were the dead ones.

Phoebe

Don't you think he might have had a reason?

Ray

He phoned me, about ten years later. Some small town in Oklahoma. Kept rambling on about the rising storm. A huge psychic tornado that was going to consume humanity in darkness forever. And, kid, I wanted to believe him-

Phoebe

You don't understand, there was this mountain, and it had these ancient carvings, and-

Ray

Kid, kid, kid, there are a lot of mountains out there with ancient carvings. Take a little advice: don't go chasing ghosts.

Phoebe

Egon Spengler was my grandfather.

Sheriff Domingo

[hangs up the phone]

Time's up.

Ray

Hello?

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Man

[After Lucky is possessed by the Gatekeeper, Gozer goes to shock Callie and Phoebe] [offscreen]

Hey, flat-top!

Peter Venkman

[Gozer looks over her shoulder. She, Callie and Phoebe find the original Ghostbusters]

Have you missed us?

Ray

[From inside Ecto-1, three tiny Stay Puft Marshmallow Men gasp and cheer]

Gozer the Gozerian! In the name of the county of Summerville, state of Oklahoma, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, all the members of Ducks Unlimited, the Association for the Advancement of Retired Persons. I command you under the National Invasive Species Act to depart this world immediately.

Peter

Bravo.

Winston Zeddemore

[Gozer growls]

I think she remembers us.

Gozer

[Gozer gazes at them]

Are you... a god?

Winston

[Ray pauses]

Ray?

Peter

Oh, come on, Ray!

Ray

...Yes.

Winston

Yeah, we're all gods.

Peter

Yeah, I mean, we're all pretty dang special out here. On a personal note, I thought that we had busted up for good. I mean, it wasn't working for me. My friends didn't think so, I know yours didn't.

Winston

[The Gatekeeper goes to attack, but Gozer signals for it to stop]

Okay, playtime's over. Let's toast this muffin.

Peter

[The Ghostbusters unholster their proton wands]

Light 'em up! [laughs as they energize their proton packs]

Winston

Man, I love that sound!

Peter

On the count of three. Go on two. One, two!

Ray

[The Ghostbusters blast their proton streams around Gozer's body. Callie and Phoebe watch in amazement]