Raising Arizona (1987)

John Goodman: Gale

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• Gale : All right, ya hayseeds, it's a stick-up. Everybody freeze. Everybody down on the ground.

  Feisty Hayseed : Well, which is it, young feller? You want I should freeze or get down on the ground? Mean to say, if'n I freeze, I can't rightly drop. And if'n I drop, I'm a-gonna be in motion. You see...

  Gale : Shut up!

  Feisty Hayseed : Okay then.

  Gale : Everybody down on the ground!

  Evelle : Y'all can just forget that part about freezin' now.

  Gale : Better still to get down there.

  Evelle : Yeah, y'all hear that, don't ya?

  [Everybody lays down. Gale looks at the now-empty teller windows] 

  Gale : Shit! Where'd all the tellers go?

  Teller's voices : We're down here, sir.

  Evelle : They're on the floor as you commanded, Gale.

• Ed McDonnough : You mean you busted out of jail.

  Evelle : No, ma'am. We released ourselves on our own recognizance.

  Gale : What Evelle here is trying to say is that we felt that the institution no longer had anything to offer us.

• H.I. : Matter of fact, honey, l think l'll skip this little get-together myself. Glen won't mind. l'll just duck out with the boys, knock back a coupla co-colas.

  Gale : Sure, H l.

  Evelle : We'd love to have you, Hi.

  H.I. : [Ed gives H.I. a look of disapproval]  Maybe that ain't such a swell idea, either.

  Gale : So many social engagements, so little time.

• Gale : I know you're partial to convenient stores, but dammit, H.I., the sun doesn't rise and set on the corner grocery.

• Gale : 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.

  Evelle : Either way, we're fixed for life.

• 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.

  Gale : Well, sometimes your career's gotta come before family.

  Evelle : Work's what's kept us happy.

• Gale : Well, H.I., looks like you've been up to the devil's business.

• Gale : Why ain't you breast-feedin'? You appear to be capable.

  Ed McDonnough : Mind your own bid'ness.

  Evelle : Ma'am, you don't breast-feed him, he'll hate you for it later. That's why we wound up in prison.

  Gale : Anyway, that's what Doc Schwartz tells us.

• Evelle : Promise we ain't never gonna leave him again, Gale. Promise me we ain't never gonna give him up.

  Gale : We ain't never gonna give him up again, Evelle. He's our little Gale Jr. now.

• Evelle : Gale? Um, Junior just had a - an accident.

  Gale : What's that, pardner?

  Evelle : He had hisself a little ol' accident.

  Gale : What do you mean? He looks okay.

  Evelle : No. You see, moving though we are, he just went and had hisself a little ol' rest stop.

  Gale : [sniffs the air]  Well, that's natural.

• Gale : 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.

• Evelle : I got me some baby grub, baby wipes, diapers, them disposable kind. I also got a package of balloons.

  Gale : They blow up into funny shapes and all?

  Evelle : No, just circular.

• 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.?

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

• 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.

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

• Gale : Got a name, does he?

  H.I. : So far we just been usin' Junior.

  Ed McDonnough : We call him Junior.

  Evelle : You mean JR, just like the TV show? That's good!

• Ed McDonnough : You two are leavin' tomorrow mornin'. Now, l got nothin' against you, but you're wanted by the authorities. And you're a bad influence in this household in my opinion.

  Gale : Well, ma'am, we sure didn't mean to influence anybody.

  Evelle : And if we did, ma'am, we - we apologize.

• Gale : l'd rather light a candle than curse your darkness.

• Evelle : That there's a picture of El Dorado, Hi.

  Gale : Though, the locals call it the Farmers and Mechanics Bank of La Grange. Looks like a hayseed bank. Tell you the truth, it is a hayseed bank. Except for the last Friday of every financial quarter, there's more cash in that bank than there are flies at a barbecue.

  Evelle : And guess what day it is tomorrow.

  Gale : When all the hayseeds come in and - cash their farm subsidies checks.

  Evelle : A information, Hi.

  Gale : Got it in the joint from a guy named Lawrence Spivey, one of Dick Nixon's undersecretary of agricultures.

  Evelle : He's in for soliciting sex from a state trooper.

  Gale : Ordinarily we don't associate with that type of person, but - he was tryin' to make a few Brownie points with some of the boys.

• H.I. : Where's the baby?

  Evelle : ln the bedroom in his crib.

  Gale : He's sawin' toothpicks.

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