Tombstone (1993)

Michael Biehn: Johnny Ringo

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Quotes 

• 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.

• 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

• Curly Bill : Hey Johnny, what did that Mexican mean by a sick horse is going to get us?

  Johnny Ringo : He was quoting the Bible, Revelations. "Behold the pale horse". The man who "sat on him was Death... and Hell followed with him".

• Wyatt Earp : I just want you to know it's over between us.

  Curly Bill : Well... bye.

  Johnny Ringo : Smell that, Bill? Smells like someone died.

• 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.

• Florentino : [attempting to translate what the Mexican priest said]  He talkin loco... crazy... somethin' about a sick horse comin' to get us.

  Johnny Ringo : That's not what he said, you ignorant wretch. Your Spanish is worse than your English.

• [while watching a play in which Faust sells his soul to the Devil] 

  Curly Bill : You know what I'd do? I'd take that deal 'n' crawfish, then drill that ol' Devil in the ass. What about you Juanito, what would you do?

  Johnny Ringo : I already did it.

• Johnny Ringo : I want your blood. And I want your souls. And I want them both right now!

• Johnny Ringo : [Ringo is trying to get McMasters to rejoin the Cowboys]  So, there's nothin' I can say to get you to come back?

  Sherman McMasters : Not after what you done. Not after shootin' at the Earp's women.

  Johnny Ringo : All right then, I guess you can just get back on your horse and ride back down there to your new friends.

  Ike Clanton : [placing a shotgun to McMaster's head]  Hey. I just got one question; how're you planning on gettin' back down there?

• Johnny Ringo : You gonna stick with your new friends?

  Sherman McMasters : 'Least they don't go around scarin' women.