10 Best Raising Arizona Quotes

10 Best Raising Arizona Quotes

These are the funniest quotes from the Coen brothers’ early-career gem Raising Arizona, “or my name ain’t Nathan Arizona!”

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After bursting onto the scene with their chilling neo-noir debut Blood Simple, the Coen brothers did a complete tonal 180-degree turn with their second movie, 1987’s Raising Arizona, one of the goofiest slapstick comedies ever made.

The Coens’ second movie features just as much crime and violence as their first, but it’s ultimately a story about a couple who are deeply in love, want to start a family, and face obstacles at every turn. It’s a much sweeter, more lighthearted movie than Blood Simple, and these are its funniest quotes.

10 “Now, Y’all Who’re Without Sin Can Cast The First Stone.”

At the beginning of Raising Arizona, when Hi is about to tell audiences his story, he prefaces it by saying, “Now, y’all who’re without sin can cast the first stone…”

Since he’s worked up an impressive criminal record and the main storyline involves kidnapping a baby, it’s not a bad idea to give viewers a fair warning about morality.

9 “…Or My Name Ain’t Nathan Arizona!”

This is Nathan Arizona, Sr.’s catchphrase that he repeats throughout the movie. He’ll make a wild statement and then punctuate it with, “…or my name ain’t Nathan Arizona!” It’s first seen in his TV ads, but then we see him using it in conversation with his employees and the cops.

What makes this catchphrase ever funnier is that, as it turns out, his name actually ain’t Nathan Arizona. The FBI agents find that he was born Nathan Huffheins and he quips, “Would you shop at a store called Unpainted Huffheins?”

8 “I’ll Be Taking These Huggies And Whatever Cash You Got.”

When Hi stops in at a convenience store to pick up some Huggies for Nathan, Jr., he makes a snap decision to return to his life of crime. He disguises his face with some pantyhose, holds the clerk at gunpoint, and says, “I’ll be taking these Huggies and whatever cash you got.”

This moment in Raising Arizona sets up one of the greatest chase sequences ever put on film as the clerk triggers the alarm to alert the police and Hi ends up fleeing through the streets, through some people’s homes, and into a grocery store.

7 “We Released Ourselves On Our Own Recognizance.”

When Gale and Evelle Snoats break out of prison and come to Hi and Ed’s trailer to stay for a few days, Hi welcomes them in with open arms, but as an officer of the law, Ed isn’t so sure.

Gale and Evelle don’t want to give away that they just escaped from prison, but since they’re prisoners who suddenly aren’t in prison anymore, their ability to lie about their predicament is pretty limited. The best they can come up with is, “We released ourselves on our own recognizance.”

6 “I Think I Got The Best One.”

Hi and Ed justify kidnapping one of the Arizonas’ babies because they had quintuplets and they even joked themselves that five babies would be too many to handle.

It also means that Hi has plenty of choice when he climbs up a ladder into the babies’ bedroom to take one to raise as his own. When he comes back with Nathan, Jr., Ed says, “He’s beautiful,” and Hi proudly says, “Yeah, he’s awful damn good. I think I got the best one.”

5 “Give Me That Baby, You Warthog From Hell!”

The main villain in Raising Arizona is bounty hunter Leonard Smalls, who tears across the desert atop his motorcycle, blowing up small animals with hand grenades for fun.

In the movie’s thrilling finale, Smalls manages to capture Nathan, Jr., and at the end of her tether, Ed screams, “Give me that baby, you warthog from Hell!”

4 “Son, You Got A Panty On Your Head.”

During the movie’s iconic chase scene, Hi tries to flag down a pickup truck to hitch a lift. The first thing the driver notices is that Hi is wearing pantyhose on his head as a makeshift disguise. He says, “Son, you got a panty on your head.”

The driver’s deadpan delivery sells the hilarity of the line. It’s then punctuated by a sight gag as he speeds off before Hi can safely get into the car and he has to frantically jump into the passenger seat.

3 “Her Insides Were A Rocky Place Where My Seed Could Find No Purchase.”

What drives Hi and Ed to kidnap a baby to raise as their own is the double whammy of Hi being a convicted felon (many times over) and Ed finding out she’s infertile.

Hi has a very colorful way of describing the latter: “I just couldn’t understand it. That this woman, who looked as fertile as the Tennessee Valley, could not bear children. But the doctor explained that her insides were a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase.”

2 “Well, Which Is It, Young Fella?”

There are a bunch of intense bank heist scenes throughout movie history, from Heat to The Dark Knight, but arguably the funniest is in Raising Arizona when Gale and Evelle Snoats hold the customers of a bank at gunpoint and Gale says, “All right, ya hayseeds, it’s a stick-up. Everybody freeze. Everybody down on the ground.”

One of the bank’s customers calmly points out that Gale contradicted himself: “Well, which is it, young fella? 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.”

1 “Maybe It Was Utah.”

In the closing moments of Raising Arizona, after Hi and Ed have returned Nathan, Jr. to the Arizonas and gone back home, Hi’s voiceover narration describes a dream he had. It’s a beautiful, poetic, unwieldy narrative about Nathan, Jr. growing up to become a football star and enjoying Thanksgiving with his family.

Then, just when Hi is speculating about his and Ed’s own uncertain future, the whole thing falls apart as he starts to wonder whether it even took place in Arizona: “Maybe it was Utah.”

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