Quick! This is killing me! Who was the co-star with Nick Cage in R.A…she was fabulous, but her name eludes me.
PLease, pleae tell me quick before I go completely insane!
ASAP,
TN*hippie
Holly Hunter in whose barren womb his seed could find no purchase.
Holly Hunter is the cutest actress who ever lived.
“Don’t you come back without a baby, Hi!”
“Turn to the right”
I’d suggest going to www.imdb.com for answers like this but then it’s fun to talk about it here.
“Are these balloons in funny shapes and all?”
“No. Unless round is funny”
Best line in the movie!
Colin
[slapping forehead] Holly Hunter!!! Of course!!![/slapping forehead]
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I may sleep tonight,
TN*hippie
P.S. Dreaming of Holly Hunter, I hope.
friend interface,
sorry, but i beg to differ
“son, you’ve got a panty on your head.”
“ma’am, we released ourselves on our own recognizance.”
Nathan Arizona (nee Huffine) Sr.'s rant at the FBI guys is the best. Ending with that “… and a hole in the ground.” Next shot: a hole in the ground.
Best visual: the birthing scene/prison escape. Goodman is great in Cohen films.
Best music: Ode to Joy on a banjo.
“NOBODY sleeps naked in this house!!!”
“Nathan needs some Huggies”
At least four times from off-screen:
“Don’t forget the *****, Ed!”
From my site:
H.I.: Biology and other peoples’ opinions conspired to keep us childless.
Parole Board Member #1: They’ve got a name for people like you, H.I. That name is called “recidivism.”
Parole Board Member #2: Repeat offender!
Parole Board Member #1: Not a pretty name, is it H.I.?
H.I.: No sir. That’s one bonehead name, but that ain’t me anymore.
Parole Board Member #1: You’re not just telling us what we want to hear?
H.I.: No sir, no way.
Parole Board Member #2: 'Cause we just want to hear the truth.
H.I.: Well, then I guess I am telling you what you want to hear.
Parole Board Member #1: Boy, didn’t we just tell you not to do that?
H.I.: Yes, sir.
Parole Board Member #1: Okay, then.
[Evelle and Gale have just escaped from prison]
Evelle: We released ourselves on our own recognizance.
Gale: What Evelle means to say is, we felt that the institution no longer had anything to offer us.
Leonard Smalls: Name’s Smalls. Leonard Smalls. My friends call me Lenny… only I ain’t got no friends.
H.I.: And this here’s the TV. Two hours a day, either educational or football, so’s you don’t ruin your appreciation of the finer things.
FBI Man: Was the boy wearing any jammies?
Nathan Arizona Sr.: Of course he was wearing his jammies, nobody sleeps naked in this house.
FBI Man: Well could you describe the jammies?
Nathan Arizona Sr.: I don’t what is damn jammies looked like…! They had Yodas and shit on them.
Evelle: Do these blow into funny shapes and all?
grocer: Well, no, unless round is funny.
old man: Now, what’s it gonna be young feller? You want I should freeze or get down on the ground? 'Cause if’n I freeze, I can’t rightly drop. And if’n I drop, I’m gonna be in motion.
Gale: Shut up!
old man: Okay then.
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.
cellmate: When there was no meat, we ate fowl. When there was no fowl, we ate crawdads. When there was no crawdads to be found, we ate sand.
H.I.: You ate sand?
cellmate: We ate sand.
Evelle: Awfully fine cereal flakes ya got, Mrs. McDonough.
policeman: Do you have any disgruntled employees?
Nathan Arizona Sr.: Hell, they’re all disgruntled. I ain’t
running no damn daisy farm.
The Coen Brothers’ finest movie - until, of course, they did The Big Lebowski.
“Oh, the information’s reliable. We learned about it from Leonard Spivey, one of Dick Nixon’s Undersecretaries of Agricutlure. He was in for soliciticing sex from an undercover state trooper.”
And the line that I tend to break out when going on long car trips, much to the groaning dismay of the SO. You have to lean way back in the seat, with your arm out the window and say, very slowly
“I…love…to…drive…”
To which she responds, right on cue…
“You sure said a mouthful there, partner.”
I was just about to say that too!
Also
“when there were no crawdads we aint sand”
“you ate sand?”
“We ate sand”
Would you buy furniture from a place called Unpainted Huffhines?
H.I. (standing up): “I’m walkin’ in here on my knees, Ed.”
Nathan Sr.: “…and if a frog had wings, it wouldn’t bump its ass a hoppin’. I’m tired of your excuses, Miles. It is now 8:45 in the PM - I’ll be down there in approximately 8 hours to kick me some butt.” “Or my name isn’t Nathan Arizona!”
“Sounds like Larry…”
“Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-eeeeee-eeeeeeeeee (ad naseum).”
“What makes you think you’re a woman, trapped in a man’s body?”
“Well, sometimes, I get the mentrual cramps real hard.”
…
On tattoo: “Momma didn’t love me.”
“Get away from my baby, you warthog from hell!”
H.I.: “I think I got the best one.”
Ed: “He’s beautiful. All babies are beautiful.”
H.I.: “This one’s aweful damn good, though.”
Dammit, who’s got my copy of that tape? I HAVE to watch it again now!
My brother and I quote lines from that movie all the time. But how could y’all forget the incomparable Frances McDormand’s contributions? I have been known to spew out the “dip-tet” lines in my pediatrician’s office!
“You gotta do that Hi”
“Or if you get carried off by a twister?”
Or the one about how putting iodine on his thumb will take care of the orthodontia, but won’t do a thing about the university…
“You’re going to send him to Arizona State?”