Tombstone (1993)

Val Kilmer: Doc Holliday

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• Johnny Ringo : My fight's not with you, Holliday.

  Doc Holliday : I beg to differ, sir. We started a game we never got to finish. "Play for Blood," remember?

  Johnny Ringo : Oh that. I was just foolin' about.

  Doc Holliday : I wasn't.

• Curly Bill : [takes a bill with Wyatt's signature from a customer and throws it on the faro table]  Wyatt Earp, huh? I heard of you.

  Ike Clanton : Listen, Mr. Kansas Law Dog. Law don't go around here. Savvy?

  Wyatt Earp : I'm retired.

  Curly Bill : Good. That's real good.

  Ike Clanton : Yeah, that's good, Mr. Law Dog, 'cause law just don't go around here.

  Wyatt Earp : I heard you the first time.

  [flips a card] 

  Wyatt Earp : Winner to the King, five hundred dollars.

  Curly Bill : Shut up, Ike.

  Johnny Ringo : [Ringo steps up to Doc]  And you must be Doc Holliday.

  Doc Holliday : That's the rumor.

  Johnny Ringo : You retired too?

  Doc Holliday : Not me. I'm in my prime.

  Johnny Ringo : Yeah, you look it.

  Doc Holliday : And you must be Ringo. Look, darling, Johnny Ringo. The deadliest pistoleer since Wild Bill, they say. What do you think, darling? Should I hate him?

  Kate : You don't even know him.

  Doc Holliday : Yes, but there's just something about him. Something around the eyes, I don't know, reminds me of... me. No. I'm sure of it, I hate him.

  Wyatt Earp : [to Ringo]  He's drunk.

  Doc Holliday : In vino veritas.

  ["In wine is truth" meaning: "When I'm drinking, I speak my mind"] 

  Johnny Ringo : Age quod agis.

  ["Do what you do" meaning: "Do what you do best"] 

  Doc Holliday : Credat Judaeus apella, non ego.

  ["The Jew Apella may believe it, not I" meaning: "I don't believe drinking is what I do best."] 

  Johnny Ringo : [pats his gun]  Eventus stultorum magister.

  ["Events are the teachers of fools" meaning: "Fools have to learn by experience"] 

  Doc Holliday : [gives a Cheshire cat smile]  In pace requiescat.

  ["Rest in peace" meaning: "It's your funeral!"] 

  Tombstone Marshal Fred White : Come on boys. We don't want any trouble in here. Not in any language.

  Doc Holliday : Evidently Mr. Ringo's an educated man. Now I really hate him.

• Doc Holliday : I'm your huckleberry...

• Doc Holliday : What did you ever want?

  Wyatt Earp : Just to live a normal life.

  Doc Holliday : There's no normal life, Wyatt, it's just life. Get on with it.

  Wyatt Earp : Don't know how.

  Doc Holliday : Sure you do. Say goodbye to me. Go grab that spirited actress and make her your own. Take that beauty from it, don't look back. Live every second. Live right on to the end. Live Wyatt. Live for me. Wyatt, if you were ever my friend - if ya ever had even the slightest of feelin' for me, leave now. Leave now... Please.

  Wyatt Earp : Thanks for always being there, Doc.

• Wyatt Earp : What makes a man like Ringo, Doc? What makes him do the things he does?

  Doc Holliday : A man like Ringo has got a great big hole, right in the middle of him. He can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it.

  Wyatt Earp : What does he need?

  Doc Holliday : Revenge.

  Wyatt Earp : For what?

  Doc Holliday : Bein' born.

• Turkey Creek Jack Johnson : Doc, you oughta be in bed, what the hell you doin this for anyway?

  Doc Holliday : Wyatt Earp is my friend.

  Turkey Creek Jack Johnson : Hell, I got lots of friends.

  Doc Holliday : I don't.

• Doc Holliday : [to Johnny Ringo, after shooting him in a duel]  You're no daisy! You're no daisy at all. Poor soul, you were just too high strung.

• Billy Clanton : Why, it's the drunk piano player. You're so drunk, you can't hit nothin'. In fact, you're probably seeing double.

  [Billy Clanton draws a knife] 

  Doc Holliday : [takes out a second gun]  I have two guns, one for each of ya.

• [Wyatt Earp has just found out that the devil in a play was performed by a woman] 

  Wyatt Earp : Well, I'll be damned.

  Doc Holliday : You may indeed, if you get lucky.

• Doc Holliday : Why Johnny Ringo, you look like somebody just walked over your grave.

• Wyatt Earp : How are you?

  Doc Holliday : I'm dying, how are you?

• Ike Clanton : What is that now? Twelve hands in a row? Holliday, son of a bitch, nobody's that lucky.

  Doc Holliday : Why Ike, whatever do you mean? Maybe poker's just not your game Ike. I know! Let's have a spelling contest!

• Doc Holliday : Nonsense, I have not yet begun to defile myself.

• Wyatt Earp : How many cards do you want?

  Doc Holliday : I don't want to play any more.

  Wyatt Earp : How many?

  Doc Holliday : Damn it, you're the most fallible, stubborn, self-deluded, bullheaded man I've ever known in my entire life.

  Wyatt Earp : I call.

  [looks at Doc's cards] 

  Wyatt Earp : You win.

  Doc Holliday : You're the only human being in my entire life that ever gave me hope...

• Frank McLaury : [a mortally wounded McLaury is taking aim at Doc]  I've got you now... you son of a bitch!

  Doc Holliday : [holds up arms]  You're a daisy if you do!

  [Morgan shoots McLaury] 

• Doc Holliday : Make no mistake, it's not revenge he's after. It's a reckonin'.

• Billy Clanton : [as Doc Holliday is drunkenly playing a somber piece on the saloon piano, Clanton speaks, just as drunkenly]  Is that "Old Dog Trey? Sounds like "Old Dog Trey."

  Doc Holliday : Pardon?

  Billy Clanton : Stephen Foster. "Oh, Susannah", "Camptown Races". Stephen stinking Foster.

  Doc Holliday : Ah, yes. Well, this happens to be a nocturne.

  Billy Clanton : A which?

  Doc Holliday : You know, Frederic fucking Chopin.

• Doc Holliday : [taunting a card player who believes Holliday is cheating him]  Why Ed does this mean we're not friends anymore? You know Ed, if I thought you weren't my friend... I just don't think I could bear it!

• Doc Holliday : Forgive me if I don't shake hands.

• Doc Holliday : Oh. Johnny, I apologize; I forgot you were there. You may go now.

• Sherman McMasters : Where is he?

  Doc Holliday : Down by the creek, walking on water.

• Doc Holliday : It's true, you are a good woman. Then again, you may be the antichrist.

• Johnny Ringo : [waiting by an oak tree for Wyatt Earp for a showdown, he believes the person approaching is Wyatt]  Well,I didn't think ya had it in you.

  Doc Holliday : I'm your huckleberry.

  [Ringo is startled that it's Holliday and not Wyatt] 

  Doc Holliday : Why, Johnny Ringo, you look like somebody just walked over your grave.

  Johnny Ringo : Fight's not with you, Holliday.

  Doc Holliday : I'll beg to differ, sir. We started a game we never got to finish. Play for blood, remember?

  Johnny Ringo : I was just foolin' about.

  Doc Holliday : I wasn't. And this time...

  [opens his coat to reveal a U.S. Deputy Marshal Badge] 

  Doc Holliday : ... it's legal.

  Johnny Ringo : All right, lunger. Let's do it.

  Doc Holliday : [they both start moving in circles slowly into position for a showdown, staring at each other without blinking]  Say when.

  Doc Holliday : [they both draw but Holliday is a tad quicker and shoots Ringo in the head and Ringo struggles to stay standing and finally falls]  Poor soul. You were just too high-strung.

  [Holliday places the badge on Ringo's corpse] 

  Doc Holliday : [Holliday hears running footsteps and turns to see Wyatt Earp approaching]  I'm afraid the strain was more than he could bear. Oh, I wasn't quite as sick as I made out.

  Wyatt Earp : Good God.

  [knells to examine Ringo and picks up the badge] 

  Doc Holliday : My hypocrisy goes only so far.

  Wyatt Earp : All right. Let's finish it.

  Doc Holliday : Indeed, sir. The last charge of Wyatt Earp and his immortals

• Doc Holliday : It appears my hypocrisy knows no bounds.

  Wyatt Earp : Doc you're not a hypocrite, you just like to sound like one.

• Turkey Creek Jack Johnson : Nobody move!

  Doc Holliday : Nonsense. By all means, move.

• Wyatt Earp : Sheriff Behan, have you met Doc Holliday?

  Doc Holliday : Piss on you, Wyatt.

• Doc Holliday : Why Johnny Tyler! You madcap!

  Johnny Tyler : Doc?

  Doc Holliday : Where you goin' with that shotgun?

• Doc Holliday : [after killing Johnny Ringo]  It would appear that the strain was more than he could bear.

• Doc Holliday : I stand corrected, Wyatt. You're an oak.

• Doc Holliday : Why Kate, you're not wearing a bustle. How lewd.

• Virgil Earp : What the hell kinda town is this?

  Morgan Earp : Nice scenery.

  Doc Holliday : Well, an enchanted moment.

  Josephine Marcus : Interesting little scene. I wonder who that tall drink of water is.

  Mr. Fabian : My dear, you've set your gaze upon the quintessential frontier type. Note the lean silhouette... eyes closed by the sun, though sharp as a hawk. He's got the look of both predator and prey.

  Josephine Marcus : I want one.

  Mr. Fabian : Happy hunting.

• Johnny Ringo : [Ringo has taken Holliday up on his offer to 'finish the game']  All right, 'lunger'. Let's do it.

  Doc Holliday : Say when.

• Wyatt Earp : [Before the shootout at the OK Corral]  It's not your problem, Doc, you don't have to mix up in this.

  Doc Holliday : [Offeneded]  That is a hell of a thing for you to say to me.

• Wyatt Earp : How we feelin' today, Doc?

  Doc Holliday : I'm dying. How are you?

  Wyatt Earp : Pretty much the same.

• Doc Holliday : Very cosmopolitan.

• Kate : How are you feeling Doc?

  Doc Holliday : Better.

  Kate : That's good. I knew it was nothing.

  Doc Holliday : We must talk darling. It appears we must redefine the nature of our association.

  Kate : I'm a good woman to you Doc. Don't I always take care of you? Nobody cares for you like me. I'm a good woman.

  Doc Holliday : Yes, it's true you are a good woman. Then again, you may be the anti-christ.

• Doc Holliday : And so she walked out of our lives forever.

• Doc Holliday : My hypocrisy goes only so far.

• Doc Holliday : You must be Ringo.

  [to Big Nose Kate] 

  Doc Holliday : Look, darlin', it's Johnny Ringo. Deadliest pistoleer since Wild Bill, they say. What do you think, darlin', should I hate him?

• Doc Holliday : Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread, / For he on honey-dew hath fed, / And drunk the milk of Paradise.

• Kate : I've been good to you, I've taken care of you. If you die, where does that leave me?

  Doc Holliday : Without a meal ticket I suppose.

  [Doc rides horse out of barn into stable area, Kate runs out after him punching him in anger] 

  Kate : You bastard!

  Doc Holliday : Why Kate, have you no kind words for me as I ride away?

  [pause] 

  Doc Holliday : I calculate not.

  [rides off] 

• Doc Holliday : Sheriff, allow me to present a pair of fellow sophisticates. Turkey Creek Jack Johnson and Texas Jack Vermillion. Mind your ear, Creek.

• Doc Holliday : Maybe poker's just not your game, Ike. I know: let's have a spelling contest.

• Sherman McMasters : [about Wyatt]  If they were my brothers, I'd want revenge, too.

  Doc Holliday : Oh, make no mistake. It's not revenge he's after. It's a reckoning.

• Wyatt Earp : You're the only person I can afford to lose to any more. How we feelin' today doc?

  Doc Holliday : I'm dyin', how are you?

  Wyatt Earp : Pretty much the same.