Raising Arizona Quotes

Raising Arizona is a TV show that first aired in 1970 . Raising Arizona completed its run in 1970.

It features Coen brothers as producer, Carter Burwell in charge of musical score, and Barry Sonnenfeld as head of cinematography.

Raising Arizona is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Raising Arizona is 94 minutes long. Raising Arizona is distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The cast includes: Randall "Tex" Cobb as Leonard Smalls, Holly Hunter as Ed McDonnough, William Forsythe as Evelle, John Goodman as Gale, Sam McMurray as Glen, and Frances McDormand as Dot.

Raising Arizona Quotes

William Forsythe as Evelle

• (William Forsythe) "Promise we ain't never gonna leave him again, Gale. Promise me we ain't never gonna give him up."
• (John Goodman) "We ain't never gonna give him up again, Evelle. He's our little Gale Jr. now."

• (William Forsythe) "I got me some baby grub, baby wipes, diapers, them disposable kind. I also got a package of balloons."
• (John Goodman) "They blow up into funny shapes and all?"
• (William Forsythe) "No, just circular."

• (William Forsythe) "Mighty fine cereal flakes, Mrs. McDonough."

• (William Forsythe) "Do they blow up in funny shapes?"
• (Grocer) "Nope. Unless round's funny."

• (William Forsythe) "Gale? Um, Junior just had a; an accident."
• (John Goodman) "What's that, pardner?"
• (William Forsythe) "He had hisself a little ol' accident."
• (John Goodman) "What do you mean? He looks okay."
• (William Forsythe) "No. You see, moving though we are, he just went and had hisself a little ol' rest stop."
• (John Goodman) "Well, that's natural."

• (William Forsythe) "H.I., you're young and you got your health, what you want with a job?"

• (William Forsythe) "These blow up into funny shapes and all?"
• (Grocer) "Well no -- unless round is funny."

Holly Hunter as Ed McDonnough

• (H.I.) "He's a scandal in't he, he's a little outlaw."
• (Holly Hunter) "Naw, he-he-he's a good boy."
• (H.I.) "He ain't too good, you can tell by that twinkle in his eye."

• (Holly Hunter) "Turn to the right."
• (H.I.) "What's the matter, Ed?"
• (Holly Hunter) "My "fy-ance" left me."
• (H.I.) "She said her fiancé had run off with a student cosmetologist, who knew how to ply her feminine wiles."
• (H.I.) "That sumbitch. You tell him, I think he's a damn fool, Ed. You tell him I said so; H.I. McDonnough. If he wants to discuss it, he knows where to find me: in the Maricopa County Maximum Security Correctional Facility For Men State Farm, Road Number 31, Tempe, Arizona. I'LL BE WAITIN'. I'll be waitin'."

• (H.I.) "What kind of name is Ed for a pretty thing like you?"
• (Holly Hunter) "Short for Edwina. Turn to the right."
• (H.I.) "You're a flower, you are. Just a little desert flower."

• (Holly Hunter) "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."
• (Holly Hunter) "Well they're just kids."

• (Holly Hunter) "Give me that baby, you warthog from hell."

• (H.I.) "A man for a husband."
• (Holly Hunter) "That ain't no answer."
• (H.I.) "Honey, that's the only answer."
• (Holly Hunter) "That ain't no answer."

• (Holly Hunter) "I love him so much."
• (H.I.) "I know you do, honey."
• (Holly Hunter) "I love him so much."
• (H.I.) "I know you do."

• (Holly Hunter) "I'm not gonna live this way, Hi. It just ain't family life."
• (H.I.) "Well -- it ain't "Ozzie and Harriet.""

• (Holly Hunter) "You guys just can't stay. I appreciate you being friends of Hi and all but this is a decent family here."
• (John Goodman) "Say, who wears the pants around here, H.I.?"

• (Holly Hunter) "What would have happened if me and Ed Junior got picked up for accessory to commit armed robbery?"
• (H.I.) "Aw, it ain't armed robbery if the gun ain't loaded."

• (Nathan Arizona Sr.) "All right, boy, I guess you got a reward coming. Twenty-five thousand dollars. Or, if you need home furnishings, I can give you a line of credit at any of my stores. In fact, that's the way I'd rather handle it. Tax reasons."
• (Holly Hunter) "We don't want no reward. We didn't bring him back for money."
• (Nathan Arizona Sr.) "We can work it that way, too."

Sam McMurray as Glen

• (Sam McMurray) "That Buford's a sly one. Already knows his ABC's. Hit the deck, boy."

• (Sam McMurray) "How many Polacks it take to screw up a lightbulb?"
• (H.I.) "I don't know, Glen. One?"
• (Sam McMurray) "Nope, it takes three."
• (Sam McMurray) "Wait a minute, I told it wrong. Here, I'm startin' over: How come it takes three Polacks to screw up a lightbulb?"
• (H.I.) "I don't know, Glen."
• (Sam McMurray) "'Cause they're so darn stupid."
• (Sam McMurray) "s***, man, loosen up. Don't ya get it?"
• (H.I.) "No, Glen, I sure don't."
• (Sam McMurray) "s***, man, think about it. I guess it's what they call a "way homer.""
• (H.I.) "Why's that?"
• (Sam McMurray) "'Cause you only get it on the way home."
• (H.I.) "I'm already home, Glen."

• (Sam McMurray) "Mind you don't cut yourself, Mordecai."

• (H.I.) "Do you ever get the feeling that there's something -- Powerful pressing down on you?"
• (Sam McMurray) "Yes, I know that feeling. I told Dot to lose some weight but she don't wanna listen."

• (H.I.) "Need a beer, Glen?"
• (Sam McMurray) "Does the Pope wear a funny hat?"

• (H.I.) "What are you talkin' about, Glen?"
• (Sam McMurray) "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.) "Keep your god**** hands off my wife."

• (Sam McMurray) "Say, did you hear about the person of the Polish persuasion who walked into a bar with a big 'ol pile of s*** in his hands and he says, "Look what I almost stepped in"?"

• (Sam McMurray) "Say that reminds me, how'd you get that kid so darn fast? Me and Dot went in to adopt on account a' 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? What else you got?" Said they got two Koreans and a negra born with his heart on the outside. It's a crazy world."
• (H.I.) "Someone oughta sell tickets."
• (Sam McMurray) "Sure, I'd buy one."

• (Sam McMurray) "Say, that 'minds me. What are going to name him?"
• (H.I.) "Uh -- Ed. Ed, Jr."
• (Sam McMurray) "But I thought you said it was a boy?"
• (H.I.) "As in "Edward." We just like that name."

Frances McDormand as Dot

• (Frances McDormand) "You gotta get 'em dip-tet boosters yearly or else they'll develop lockjaw and night vision"

• (Frances McDormand) "What's his name?"
• (Holly Hunter) "Uh -- Hi -- Hi Junior, till we think of a better one."
• (Frances McDormand) "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."
• (Frances McDormand) "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?"
• (Holly Hunter) "Well --"
• (Frances McDormand) "You're gonna send him to Arizona State."

• (Frances McDormand) "Where's that baby? Where's he at?"
• (Sam McMurray) "Go find him, honey."
• (Frances McDormand) "Cut it out, Glen."
• (H.I.) "He's asleep right now."
• (Sam McMurray) "s***. I hope we didn't wake it."
• (Frances McDormand) "Can I just sneak a peek-a-loo?"

John Goodman as Gale

• (Prison Counsellor) "Most men your age Hi, are getting married and raising up a family."
• (H.I.) "Well factually, the --"
• (Prison Counsellor) "They wouldn't accept prison as a substitute. Would any of you men care to comment."
• (John Goodman) "Well, sometimes your career's gotta come before family."
• (William Forsythe) "Work's what's kept us happy."

• (John Goodman) "Here you are sitting on your butt playing house with a -- Don't get me wrong, H.I., a fine woman but one who seems like she needs one of those button-down types."

• (John Goodman) "You understand, H.I.? If this works out, it's just the beginning of a spree to cover the entire southwest proper. And we keep going until we can retire. Or we get caught."
• (William Forsythe) "Either way, we're fixed for life."

• (H.I.) "If it's all the same to you, Honey, I think I'll skip this little get together, slip out with the boys and knock back a couple of Coca Colas."
• (H.I.) "I guess that wouldn't be such a good idea."
• (John Goodman) "So many social engagements, so little time."

• (John Goodman) "Got you on an awful short leash, don't she, H.I.?"

• (John Goodman) "Why ain't you breast-feeding? You appear to be capable."
• (Holly Hunter) "Mind your own bid'ness."
• (William Forsythe) "Ma'am, you don't breast-feed him, he'll hate you for it later. That's why we wound up in prison."
• (John Goodman) "Anyway, that's what Doc Schwartz tells us."

• (John Goodman) "Welcome Home Son -- ? Where's he been?"

• (John Goodman) "Anyone found bipedal in five wears his ass for a hat."

Randall "Tex" Cobb as Leonard Smalls

• (Randall "Tex" Cobb) "You want to find an outlaw, hire an outlaw. You want to find a Dunkin' Donuts, call a cop."

• (Nathan Arizona Sr.) "You want that $25,000 reward, you go ahead and claim it. What's there to talk about?"
• (Randall "Tex" Cobb) "Price. A fair price. That's not what you say it is, and it's not what I say it is -- It's what the market will bear. Now there's people; and I know 'em; who'll pay a lot more than $25,000 for a healthy baby. Why, I myself fetched $30,000 on the black market. And that was in 1954 dollars."

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