Raising Arizona
Raising Arizona

Evelle: Do they blow up in funny shapes?
Grocer: Nope. Unless round's funny.

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Raising Arizona

Dot: You soak his thumb in iodine and you might get by without the orthodonture, but it won't knock a thing off the university.

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Raising Arizona

Ed McDonnough: You guys just can't stay. I appreciate you being friends of Hi and all but this is a decent family here.
Gale: [Quietly, to H.I] Say, who wears the pants around here, H.I.?

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Raising Arizona

Gale: Got you on an awful short leash, don't she, H.I.?

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Raising Arizona

H.I.: Nathan Jr accepts me for what I am! And I think you better had, too! You know I'm okay, you're okay! That there's what it is!

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Raising Arizona

H.I.: I found myself driving past convenience stores... that weren't on the way home.

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Raising Arizona

H.I.: Now, y'all without sin can cast the first stone.

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Raising Arizona

Ed McDonnough: I'm not gonna live this way, Hi! It just ain't family life!
H.I.: Well... it ain't "Ozzie and Harriet."

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Raising Arizona

H.I.: Prison life is structured - more'n some people care for.

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Raising Arizona

Gale: [during the bank robber] I told you not to use our names, Evelle!
Evelle: [pauses] You mean our code names?
Gale: Oh yeah.
Evelle: You hear that everyone? We're usin' code names.

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Raising Arizona

Dot: Rollie! You take that diaper off your head and you put it back on your sister!

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Raising Arizona

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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Raising Arizona

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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Raising Arizona

Dot: Where's that baby? Where's he at?
Glen: [Glen smacks Dot on the butt] Go find him, honey!
Dot: [Dot smacks Glen with her purse] Cut it out, Glen!
H.I.: [quietly] He's asleep right now.
Glen: [rubbing his jaw] Shit! I hope we didn't wake it!
Dot: Can I just

sneak a peek-a-loo?

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Raising Arizona

Dot: [GASPS after seeing Nathan Jr] What's his name?
Ed McDonnough: Uh... Hi... Hi Junior, till we think of a better one.
Dot: Why don't ya call him Jason? l just love biblical names. If I had another little boy, I'd name him Jason, Caleb or Tab.
[GASPS; covers her face with her hands and looks through her fingers]

Dot: He's an angel! He's an angel straight from heaven! Now honey, I had all my kids the hard way. Tell me how you got this little angel. Did he fly straight down from heaven?
Ed McDonnough: Well...
Dot: You're gonna send him to Arizona State.

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Raising Arizona

Glen: Mind you don't cut yourself, Mordecai.

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Raising Arizona

Gale: Welcome Home Son... ? Where's he been?

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Raising Arizona

Glen: That Buford's a sly one. Already knows his ABC's. Hit the deck, boy!

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Raising Arizona

H.I.: He's a scandal in't he, he's a little outlaw.
Ed McDonnough: Naw, he-he-he's a good boy.
H.I.: He ain't too good, you can tell by that twinkle in his eye.

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Raising Arizona

Gale: Anyone found bipedal in five wears his ass for a hat!