Raising Arizona (1987)

Trey Wilson: Nathan Arizona, Sr.

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Quotes 

• Nathan Arizona Sr. : Who the hell are you?

  Leonard Smalls : Smalls. Leonard Smalls. My friends call me Lenny - only I ain't got no friends.

  Nathan Arizona Sr. : Oh, stop. You gonna make me bust out cryin'.

• Nathan Arizona Sr. : If a frog had wings, it wouldn't bump its ass a- hoppin'. Look, it is exactly 8:45 in the PM. I'll be down at that store in exactly 12 hours to kick me some butt. Or my name ain't Nathan Arizona!

• Policeman in Arizona house : What did the pyjamas look like?

  Nathan Arizona Sr. : I don't know - they were jammies! They had Yodas 'n' shit on 'em!

• H.I. : I think the wife and me are splitting up. Her point is that were both kind of selfish and unrealistic, so we're not really good for each other.

  Nathan Arizona Sr. : Well, ma'am, I don't know much, but I do know human beings. You brought back my boy, so you must have your good points, too. I sure hate to think of Florence leaving me. I do love her so. You can go out the way you came in. Oh, and before you do another foolish thing like busting up, I suggest you sleep on it. At least for one night.

• FBI Agent : Sir, we discovered you were born Nathan Huffheins.

  Nathan Arizona Sr. : Yeah, I changed my name. What of it?

  FBI Agent : Can you give us an indication why?

  Nathan Arizona Sr. : Would you shop at a store called Unpainted Huffheins?

• Nathan Arizona Sr. : Eight hundred leaf-tables and no chairs? You can't sell leaf-tables and no chairs. Chairs, you got a dinette set. No chairs, you got dick!

• Nathan Arizona Sr. : It's widely known l posted a 25 grand reward for my boy. Now if you can find him, claim it. Short of that, what have we got to talk about?

  Leonard Smalls : Price. Fair price. That's not what you say it is. That's what the market will bear. Simple economics. Now there are people - and, mind you, l know 'em - that'll pay a lot more than $25,000 for a healthy baby.

  Nathan Arizona Sr. : What are you after?

  Leonard Smalls : l'll give you an idea. Why as a pup, l myself fetched $30,000 on the black market. That was 1954 dollars. Now, for 50 grand, l'll track him and l'll find him. And the people that took him, l'll kick their butts. No extra charge.

  Nathan Arizona Sr. : And if l don't pay?

  Leonard Smalls : l'll get the boy regardless. And if you don't pay, the market will.

• Older FBI Agent : Do you have any disgruntled employees?

  Nathan Arizona Sr. : Hell, they're all disgruntled. I ain't running no damn daisy farm. My motto is "Do it my way or watch your butt!"

  Older FBI Agent : So, you think it might've been an employee?

  Nathan Arizona Sr. : Oh, don't make me laugh. Without my say-so they wouldn't piss with their pants on fire.

• Nathan Arizona Sr. : All right, boy, I guess you got a reward coming. Twenty-five thousand dollars. Or, if you need home furnishings, I can give you a line of credit at any of my stores. In fact, that's the way I'd rather handle it. Tax reasons.

  Ed McDonnough : We don't want no reward. We didn't bring him back for money.

  Nathan Arizona Sr. : We can work it that way, too!

• Nathan Arizona Sr. : Dammit, are you boys gonna chase down your leads or are you gonna sit drinkin' coffee in the one house in the state where I know my boy ain't at?

• Nathan Arizona Sr. : You know what I think? I think you're an evil man. I think this is a shakedown. It's nothing but a Goddamn screw-job. I think you took Nathan Jr.

  [reaches for telephone] 

  Nathan Arizona Sr. : And you, my fine friend, are the one who's gonna get his butt kicked.

  [Turns around, then turns back to find Smalls had gone] 

• Nathan Arizona Sr. : No leads? Everyone leaves microbes and whatnot. Hell, that's your forte, ain't it? Trackin' down microbes left by criminals and commies and shit! That's your whole goddamn raison d'être, ain't it? No leads? l want Nathan Junior back! Or whichever the hell one of 'em they took! He's out there somewhere. Somethin' *leads* to him!

• Nathan Arizona Sr. : Mister, I got the cops, State Troopers, Federal BI already lookin' for my boy. Now, if you got information...

  Leonard Smalls : Cops won't find your boy. A cop couldn't find his butt if it had a bell on it.

• Reporter : Do you have anything to say to the kidnappers?

  Nathan Arizona Sr. : Yeah: Watch your butts.

  Reporter : Sir, it's rumored your son was abducted by UFOs. Would you care to comment?

  Nathan Arizona Sr. : Don't print that, son. lf his mama reads that, she's just gonna lose all hope.

• Nathan Arizona Sr. : If you're looking for furniture or a shitbox, out there is the sales floor.

  Leonard Smalls : I'm not a customer. I'm a manhunter. But I do hunt babies on occasion. I heard tell you got one you can't put your hand to.

  Nathan Arizona Sr. : How do you know about that?

  Leonard Smalls : That's my job. I'm a tracker. Some say part hound dog.

• Nathan Arizona Sr. : Christian Dior, my butt! They pay money for that?

• Nathan Arizona Sr. : Nobody sleeps naked in this house, boy!

• Unpainted Secretary : Mr Arizona, he just barged in. Should l call Duane?

  Nathan Arizona Sr. : Hell, no. Why wake the security guard? l'll take care of this.