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Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter in Raising Arizona (1987)

William Forsythe: Evelle

Raising Arizona

William Forsythe credited as playing...

Evelle

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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.
  • Evelle: [about the balloons he just bought] These blow up into funny shapes and all?
  • Grocer: Well no... unless round is funny.
  • Evelle: H.I., you're young and you got your health, what you want with a job?
  • 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: 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: 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: Mighty fine cereal flakes, Mrs. McDonough.
  • Evelle: We need someone handy with a scatter gun to cover them hayseeds while we go in there and get that cash!
  • 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: 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.
  • [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.
  • Evelle: Do they blow up in funny shapes?
  • Grocer: Nope. Unless round's funny.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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