Other Titles • Raising Arizona (1987) • Arizona Junior (1987)
Quotes from Raising Arizona (1987)
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"We ate sand."--Cellmate
(55 votes)
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"The first time I met Ed was in the county lockup in Tempe, Arizona. The day I'll never forget"--H.I. (Nicolas Cage), in voice-over
(53 votes)
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"That's right."--Cellmate
(50 votes)
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"When they was no meat we ate fowl, when there was no fowl we ate crawdad. And when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand."--Cellmate (Sidney Dawson)
(51 votes)
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"You ate what?"--H.I.
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"Well, no...unless round is funny."--Elderly grocer
(4 votes)
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"Well, sometimes I get the menstrual cramps real hard."--Prisoner
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"So, why do you use the word 'trapped'?"--Prison Counselor
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"Huh?"--Prisoner (Ruben Young)
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"Why do you say you feel 'trapped' in a man's body?"--Prison Counselor
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"You're not just telling us what we want to hear?"--Parole board member #1
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"No sir, no way."--H.I.
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"Cause we just want to hear the truth."--Parole board member #2
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"Well, then I guess I am telling you what you want to hear."--H.I.
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"Boy, didn't we just tell you not to do that?"--Parole board member #1
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"Yes, sir."--H.I.
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"Okay then."--Parole board member #1
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"Me and Dot went in to adopt on account of somethin' went wrong with my semen and they said we had to wait five years for a healthy white baby. I said, 'Healthy white baby? Five years? Okay, what else ya got?' Said they got two Koreans and a negra born with his heart on the outside...It's a crazy world."--Glen (Sam McMurray)
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"Someone oughta sell tickets."--H.I.
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"Sure, I'd buy one."--Glen
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"...But the doctor explained that her insides were a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase."--H.I., in voice-over
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"Ed felt that havin' a critter was the next logical step."--H.I., in voice-over
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"So come on down to Unpainted Arizona where you can get the finest selection in fixtures and appointments for your bathroom, bedroom, boudoir. And if you can find lower prices anywhere...my name ain't Nathan Arizona!"--Nathan Arizona (Trey Wilson)
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"I think we got the best one."--H.I. to Ed (Holly Hunter), regarding the baby, Nathan Jr.
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"He's an angel. He's an angel straight from heaven!"--Ed to H.I.
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"You...busted out of jail?"--Ed
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"No ma'am, uh...we released ourselves on our own recognizance."--Evelle (William Forsythe)
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"What Evelle means to say is, we felt that the institution no longer had anything to offer us."--Gale (John Goodman)
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"Nathan Jr. accepts me for what I am, and I think you better had too. You know honey, I'm OK, you're OK. That there's what it is!"--H.I. to Ed
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"Right, you hayseeds, it's a stick-up. Everybody freeze. Everybody down on the ground."--Gale
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"Well, which is it, young feller? You want I should freeze or get down on the ground? I mean to say if'n I freeze, I can't rightly drop, and if'n I drop, I'm gonna be in motion. Ya see."--Feisty Hayseed (Rusty Lee)
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"Shut up!"--Gale
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"Okay then."--Feisty Hayseed
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"Do these blow into funny shapes and all?"--Evelle
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"Son, you got a panty on your head."--Hayseed in the Pickup (John O'Donnal) to H.I.
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"Gimme that baby, you warthog from hell!"--Ed to Leonard Smalls (Randall "Tex" Cobb)
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"I'll be taking these Huggies and, uh, whatever cash you got."--H.I.
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"It just ain't family life."--Ed
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"Well, it ain't Ozzie and Harriet."--H.I.
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"Okay then."--spoken by many characters throughout the film
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H.I.: What are you talkin' about, Glen? Glen: What am I talkin' about? I'm talkin' about sex boy, what the hell you talkin' about? I'm talkin' about l'amour! I'm talkin' that me and Dot are swingers, as in "to swing." I'm talkin' about wife swappin'. I'm talkin' about what they call nowadays open marriage. I'm talk... H.I.: [Knocks Glen to the ground with a punch] Keep your goddamn hands off my wife!
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Hayseed in the Pickup: Son, you got a panty on your head.
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Nathan Arizona Sr.: If a frog had wings, it wouldn't bump its ass a- hoppin'. Look, it is exactly 8:45 in the PM. I'll be down at that store in exactly 24 hours to kick me some butt. Or my name ain't Nathan Arizona!
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Nathan Arizona Sr.: I got the cops and the Federal BI out there lookin' for my boy... Leonard Smalls: Cops won't find your boy. A cop couldn't find his butt if it had a bell on it.
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Glen: Okay, so this Pollack walks into a bar, carrying a pile of dog shit in his hand, and he says "Look what I almost stepped in.
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FBI Man: What was the baby wearing when he was kidnapped? Nathan Arizona Sr.: A dinner jacket - whaddaya think? He was wearin' his damn jammies! They had Yodas 'n shit on 'em!
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Glen: Say, did you hear about the person of the Polish persuasion who walked into a bar with a big 'ol pile of shit in his hands and he says, "Look what I almost stepped in"?
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H.I.: A man for a husband. Ed McDonnough: That ain't no answer. H.I.: Honey, that's the only answer. Ed McDonnough: That ain't no answer.
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Ed McDonnough: We finally go out with decent people and you break his nose. That ain't too funny, Hi. H.I.: His kids seemed to think it was funny. Ed McDonnough: Well they're just kids.
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Ed McDonnough: Give me that baby, you warthog from hell!
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