You know how you can enjoy a movie in your childhood and love it for the rest of your life just because you loved it as a child? Well, I love the movie Raising Arizona like that. I’m not exactly sure what I loved about it when I was a kid, but I can remember watching it over and over again on HBO. I must have really liked it because when I was a teenager Mom gave me my own copy as a birthday gift. Anyway, the movie is hilarious! To bring a little humor to Lux Venit, I’m posting…
13 favorite lines** from Raising Arizona:
- “Son, you got a panty on your head.”
- “–Or my name ain’t Nathan Arizona!”
- “TURN TO THE RIGHT!”
- “I’ll be takin’ these Huggies and uh…whatever cash you got.”
- “Do these blow up into funny shapes?” “Naw, less’n you think round is funny.”
- “What! Are you kiddin’? We got ourselves a family here!”
- “Say, ‘at reminds me…”
- “You n me’s just a fool’s paradise.”
- “I know, but Honey!”
- “Mind you don’t cut yourself, Mordecai.”
- “Ever’body freeze. Ever’body down on the ground.” “Well, which’n is it, young feller? If’n I freeze, I cain’t rightly drop. And if’n I drop, I’m a-goingta be in motion…”
- “Hi, you’re young and you’ve got your health. What would you want with a job?”
- “We are now set to begin the robbery proper!!”
Now, there are myriad funny lines/conversations in this movie. If you have some favorites, please leave them in the comments!
**Must read in your best southern drawl.
(HT: Karl helped jog my memory for some of these)
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Leslie Wiggins 
13 responses to “Thursday Thirteen: Movie Lines”
I haven’t seen Raising Arizona but it is actually on my list of movies to see.My 13 are up.
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I loved that movie. It was very funny.My 13 are up.
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That was a pretty good movie. It’s been a LONG time since I’ve seen it though. I just really love Nicholas Cage. :)Happy Thursday
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Number #1 is said far too often in our house. This post just confirms you on my list of daily blog reading :)My fav is “I want a baby H.I”. Of course without the accent it really isn’t funny at all. (I know you can hear it inside your head)
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This came out when you were a kid?Golly, I really am getting old! I’ve never seen the movie, so maybe I can borrow it sometime for a weekend. (Before reading your blog, if anyone had asked when this movie came out, I would have said 3 or 4 years ago!)Talk to you later.Love,Aunt Terry
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We own that movie too. It is pretty funny. I love the accents. Gotta love Nicholas Cage’s friends in that movie too. 🙂
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Check out my complementary “other 13 favorite lines from Raising Arizona” for Thursday Thirteen.
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Great, Leslie! You know Raising Arizona is one of our family faves, too. Fortunately, we watch it with the T.V. Guardian so it cuts out the bad words. :0) I loved your Thursday Thirteen and here are a few more favorite quotes:”You get back in there and get me a baby…they got more than they can handle””You ate SAND?!””We’re having some decent friends over” :0) “These are the salad days””Everybody’s got microbes and what not!””Mighty fine cereal flakes, Mrs. McDonough””Never leave a man behind!!””Not even your code name?”Have a beautiful, blessed day!bonnie<
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“Did ya hear that?! We’re using code names!”
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This is such a great idea for a T13. Perhaps you’ll let us borrow it from you sometime?
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too funny! I wouldn’t guess that was a fave of yours!!! I have a ton of movies like that….just classics to me, and so good b/c I loved them when I was a kid (my parents let me watch WAY too much TV and WAY too many movies!!!). It’s so sad b/c now I watch some of them, and they are terrible (inappropriate), and I don’t want to watch them….but still have fond memories of them. OR, even worse, I watch them now and still love them when others think they are not good to watch! Some of my childhood faves were Annie – I can still sing every word to every song (why do they have cussing in that movie???!!!) and Footloose (yeah…I haven’t watched that one in a LONG time, but it was a DAILY one in my childhood for a month or so!)
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I have never seen this movie. Might need to check it out! Thanks! Janet T.
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OK, I’m going to date myself, but the only time I could watch movies as a child was as a re-run on Sat. or Sun. afternoon. I remember my step-father watching old war movies on Sun. afternoons. The small town I grew up in didn’t even have a movie theater. I’m sure I went to the movies a few times but the first one I remember is Herbie when I a teenager. Also, we lived in the country and if we pointed the antennae in one direction we could pick up a couple of sations out of Columbus and if we point the antennae the other way we could pick up stations from Montgomery. Before we got a motorized antennae changer I would have to run outside and turn the antennae while Mother stood in the house and yelled when the “pictcher was comin’ in good.” So, my favorite shows as a kid were not movies. It was re-runs of I Love Lucy. There was a season I could watch Lucille Ball three times on Monday. I Love Lucy at 3:00, The Lucy Show at 5:30 and The Lucille Ball Show at 7:00. Mondays became my favorite day of the week.
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