- Louie: You'll never take me alive, coppers!
- Dr. Egon Spengler: Of course not, you're a ghost.
- Louie: Oh yeah, I keep forgettin'.
- Ray Stantz: Eh, good evening. I'm Ray Stantz of the Ghostbusters, I'm sorry to have to tell you that you've got what seems to be a Class 7 repeating corporeal entity residing here. Or, in layman's terms, the Boogieman lives in your closet.
- Peter Venkman: I don't know about you guys, but spending all night looking in closets for the Boogieman is not why I moved to Fun City.
- Ray Stantz: [while running through children's closets, chasing after the bogeyman] Nothing to worry about, folks. We'll handle it. You go back to sleep.
- Woman: I knew we shouldn't have bought a house in Hollywood!
- Peter Venkman: [about the Boogeyman] Heck of a way to make a living. Still, when you think about how many kids they are, he's got job security.
- Ray Stantz: [Winston's driving crazily chasing a ghost] Easy...
- Peter Venkman: Okay, we're on him now. Watch out for the hot dog cart, Winston, don't hit that news stand.
- Winston Zeddemore: Ray, you should've put another wheel in the backseat for him.
- [last lines]
- Peter Venkman: Let me blast him, I mean it. I'm talking full stream here. This ghost is toast. Let go of me!
- Ray Stantz: [about the Bogeyman] It's not a ghost! How are we gonna get it in the trap?
- Winston Zeddemore: Good question! Why didn't you think of that before?
- Peter Venkman: Go full stream! Maybe we can force him back in the closet!
- Ray Stantz: Peter...
- Peter Venkman: What?
- Ray Stantz: ...tell me a story?
- Winston Zeddemore: He's just getting into the role.
- Peter Venkman: He's gonna be in a body cast if he keeps this up.
- [goes into the bedroom, quickly]
- Peter Venkman: Once upon a time there were four Ghostbusters who had a job to do only they couldn't do it 'cause one of them wouldn't go to sleep, the end!
- [after the Ghostbusters confronted the Bogeyman for the first time]
- Kenny Carter: Now do you believe me?
- Peter Venkman: Yeah, kid. Oh, yeah.
- Dr. Egon Spengler: We've gotta go after him!
- Winston Zeddemore: No we don't. Show me where it says that.
- Dr. Egon Spengler: Why didn't they believe us?
- Peter Venkman: Egon, we told 'em there was a monster in their kids' closet. We're lucky they didn't have us arrested.
- Dr. Egon Spengler: We've gotta go back there and find it again!
- Winston Zeddemore: Wrong! What we've gotta do is some serious thinkin' about how to catch this thing.