Tombstone (1993)

Kurt Russell: Wyatt Earp

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• 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 : 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.

• Wyatt Earp : All right, Clanton... you called down the thunder, well now you've got it! You see that?

  [pulls open his coat, revealing a badge] 

  Wyatt Earp : It says United States Marshal!

  Ike Clanton : [terrified, pleading]  Wyatt, please, I...

  Wyatt Earp : [referring to Stilwell, laying dead]  Take a good look at him, Ike... 'cause that's how you're gonna end up!

  [shoves Ike down roughly with his boot] 

  Wyatt Earp : The Cowboys are finished, you understand? I see a red sash, I kill the man wearin' it!

  [lets Ike up to run for his life] 

  Wyatt Earp : So run, you cur... RUN! Tell all the other curs the law's comin'!

  [shouts] 

  Wyatt Earp : You tell 'em I'M coming... and hell's coming with me, you hear?...

  [louder] 

  Wyatt Earp : Hell's coming with me!

• [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.

• Wyatt Earp : How are you?

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

• Wyatt Earp : You gonna do somethin' or just stand there and bleed?

• 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...

• Wyatt Earp : [Tyler reaches for his gun]  Go ahead, skin it! Skin that smokewagon and see what happens!

  Johnny Tyler : [stammers, scared]  Listen, mister, I - I'm - I'm - I'm gettin' awful tired of your...

  Wyatt Earp : [slaps Tyler across the face, unafraid]  I'm gettin' tired of your gas. Now jerk that pistol and go to work!

  Wyatt Earp : [slaps him harder, now completely steely-eyed]  I said throw down, boy!

• Wyatt Earp : From now on I see a red sash, I kill the man wearing it. So run you cur. And tell the other curs the law is coming. You tell 'em I'm coming! And Hell's coming with me you hear! Hell's coming with me!

• 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.

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

  Doc Holliday : Piss on you, Wyatt.

• 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.

• Wyatt Earp : I don't think I'll let you arrest us today, Behan.

• Wyatt Earp : [to Josephine Marcus]  I have nothing left, nothing to give you, I have no pride, no dignity, no money, I don't even know how we'll make a living, but I promise I'll love you the rest of your life

  [they kiss] 

• Wyatt Earp : [to Ike Clanton]  You die first, get it? Your friends might get me in a rush, but not before I make your head into a canoe, you understand me?

• 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.

• Frank Stillwell : [Stillwell and Ike are planning to ambush the Earps at the train station]  That's Virgil there with the women.

  Ike Clanton : He's mine, understand?

  Frank Stillwell : [Cocking his rifle]  Hey Mattie! Where's Wyatt?

  Wyatt Earp : Right behind you, Stillwell.

  [Shoots Stillwell as he turns around] 

• Wyatt Earp : In all that time workin' those cow towns, I was only ever mixed up in one shootin', just one! But a man lost his life and I took it! You don't know how that feels, and believe me boy, you don't ever want to know. Not ever!

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

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

  Wyatt Earp : Pretty much the same.

• Wyatt Earp : I did my duty, now I'd like to get on with my life. I'm going to Tombstone.

  Crawley Dake : Ah, I see. To strike it rich. Well, all right, that's fine. Tell you one thing, though... I never saw a rich man who didn't wind up with a guilty conscience.

  Wyatt Earp : Already got a guilty conscience. Might as well have the money, too. Good day, now.

• Wyatt Earp : Fight's commenced! Get to fightin' or get away!

• Johnny Tyler : Well, for a man that don't go heeled, you run your mouth kinda reckless, don't you?

  Wyatt Earp : No need to go heeled to get the bulge on a tub like you.

• Wyatt Earp : [Vigil has agreed to become Tombstone's town marshall, upsetting Wyatt]  What in the hell are you doin'? I told you we weren't gettin' involved!

  Virgil Earp : You got us involved when you brought us here.

  Wyatt Earp : Now you hold on a minute, Virg!

  Virgil Earp : Hold on nothin'! I walk around this town and look these people in the eyes. It's just like someone's slappin' me in the face! These people are afraid to walk down the street, and I'm tryin' to make money off that like some goddamn vulture! If we're gonna have a future in this town, it's gotta have some law and order!

  Wyatt Earp : Don't do this to me!

  Virgil Earp : It's got nothin' to do with you! It's got to do wi...

  Wyatt Earp : Nothin' to do with me? I'm your brother, for Christ's sake! God, I don't believe this!

  [to Morgan] 

  Wyatt Earp : Talk to him, will you? Or hit him!

  [Morgan sheepishly shows Wyatt his deputy badge under his coat] 

  Wyatt Earp : Ah, God, don't tell me!

  Morgan Earp : Like you said, Wyatt, we're brothers. Gotta back your brother's play. Just did like I figured you would.

• Morgan Earp : It said that a lot of people, when they die, they see this light. Like in a tunnel. They say it's the light leadin' you to heaven.

  Wyatt Earp : Really? Well, what about hell? They got a sign there or what?

• Wyatt Earp : I spent my whole life not knowing what I want out of it, just chasing my tail. Now for the first time I know exactly what I want and who... that's the damnable misery of it.

• Wyatt Earp : You could have been busted up back there, or killed.

  Josephine Marcus : Fun, though, wasn't it?

  Wyatt Earp : You'd die for fun?

  Josephine Marcus : Wouldn't you?

• Josephine : I'm a woman, I like men. If that means I'm not "lady-like", then I guess I'm just not a lady! At least I'm honest.

  Wyatt Earp : You're different. No arguin' that. But you're a lady alright. I'd take my oath on it.

• Sheriff John Behan : You are all under arrest.

  Wyatt Earp : I don't think I'm going to allow you to arrest us today, Behan.

• Wyatt Earp : Okay, fine. Say you're right, say you don't get yourself killed. There's somethin' else. All those years I worked those cow towns, I was only ever mixed up in one shootin', just one. But a man lost his life, and I took it. You don't know how that feels, Morg. Believe me, boy, you don't ever wanna know. Not ever.

• 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.

• [the Earps and Doc Holliday stand off against the Billy and Ike Clanton and other Cowboys at the OK Corral, both groups ready to draw and shoot. Doc gives Billy Clanton a wink. Billy's jaw goes slack] 

  Wyatt Earp : Oh my God.

• Wyatt Earp : How the hell did we get ourselves into this?