Evelle Quotes in Raising Arizona (1987)

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.

Evelle: [about the balloons he just bought] These blow up into funny shapes and all?

Grocer: Well no... unless round is funny.

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.

Evelle: Mighty fine cereal flakes, Mrs. McDonough.

Evelle: H.I., you're young and you got your health, what you want with a job?

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.

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.

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.

Evelle: Do they blow up in funny shapes?

Grocer: Nope. Unless round's funny.

Evelle: We need someone handy with a scatter gun to cover them hayseeds while we go in there and get that cash!

Gale: Why ain't you breast-feeding? 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 is buying diapers]

Evelle: You know how to put these things on?

Grocer: Well, around the butt and up over the groin area.

Evelle: I know WHERE they go, old timer. I just want to know if I need pins or fasteners.

Grocer: Well, no, they got them tape-ettes already on there. It's self-contained and fairly explanatory.

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.