Tombstone quotes
Starring Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer.
Doc Holliday
- I have not yet begun to defile myself.
- There is no normal life, Wyatt. There’s just life.
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… and that’s the damnable misery of it.
- In all that time workin’ those cow towns, I was only ever mixed up in one shooting, 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!
- All right, Clanton… You called down the thunder. Well, now you’ve got it! You see that? It says “United States Marshal.”… Take a good look at him, Ike, because that’s how you’re gonna end up!… The Cowboys are finished, you understand me?! I see a red sash, I kill the man wearin’ it! So run, you cur… RUN! Tell all the other curs the LAW’S coming! You tell ‘em I’M coming… and Hell’s coming with me, you hear?! Hell’s coming with me!
Morgan Earp
- Look at all the stars. You look up and you think, “God made all this and He remembered to make a little speck like me.” It’s kind of flattering, really.
Dialogue
:Josephine Marcus: [looking at Wyatt] This is a remarkable scene. I wonder who that tall drink of water is.
:Mr. Fabian: My darling, you’ve cast your gaze upon the quintessential frontier type. Note the lean silhouette. Eyes closed by the sun, yet sharp as a hawk. He has the look of both predator and prey.
:Josephine Marcus: I want one.
:Mr. Fabian: Happy hunting.
:Johnny 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.
:Johnny Ringo: Age quod agis.
:Doc Holliday: Credat Judaeus apella, non ego.
:Johnny Ringo: [pats his gun] Eventus stultorum magister.
:Doc Holliday: [smiles] In pace requiescat.
: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.
:Billy Clanton: Is that “Old Dog Tray?” It sounds to me like “Old Dog Tray.” You know, Stephen Foster. “Oh, Susannah,” “Camptown Races.” Stephen stinking Foster!
:Doc: Ah, yes. Well, this happens to be a nocturne.
:Billy Clanton: A which?
:Doc: You know, Frederic fucking Chopin.
: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!
:Billy Clanton: [to Holliday] It’s the drunk piano player. You’re so drunk, you couldn’t hit nothin.’ [draws a knife.] In fact, you’re probably seeing double.
:Doc: [draws a second gun] I have two guns; one for each of ya.
:[Doc begins coughing violently.]
:Jack Johnson: Doc, you ought to be in bed. What the hell you doin’ this for, anyway?
:Doc: Wyatt Earp is my friend.
:Jack Johnson: Hell, I’ve got lots of friends.
:Doc: I don’t.
:Wyatt Earp: What makes a man like Ringo, Doc? What makes him do the things he does?
:Doc Holliday: A man like Ringo has a great empty hole through 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: Being born.
:[Johnny Ringo is awaiting Wyatt Earp's arrival in anticipation of a pistol duel.]
:Johnny: Well… I didn’t think you had it in you.
:Doc: [reveals his face] I’m here huckleberry. [Ringo stops short, looking startled.] Why, Johnny Ringo. You look like somebody just walked over your grave.
:Johnny: Fight’s not with you, Holliday.
:Doc: Oh, I beg to differ, sir. You and I started a game we never got to finish. Play for blood, remember?
:Johnny: I was just fooling about.
:Doc: I wasn’t. And this time…[opens his overcoat to reveal a badge] It’s legal.
:Johnny: All right, lunger. Let’s do it!
:Doc: Say when.
:[Doc draws first and shoots Ringo in the head, killing him]
:Doc: You’re no daisy, you’re not a daisy at all! Poor soul, you were just too high strung.
:Wyatt Earp: How are you?
:Doc Holliday: I’m dying, how are you?
Taglines
- Justice is coming.
- Every town has a story. Tombstone has a legend.
Cast
:Kurt Russell – Wyatt Earp
:Val Kilmer – Doc Holliday
:Dana Delaney – Josephine Marcus
:Powers Boothe – Curly Bill Brocius
:Michael Biehn – Johnny Ringo
:Sam Elliot – Virgil Earp
:Bill Paxton – Morgan Earp
:Billy Zane – Mr. Fabian
:Thomas Haden Church – Billy Clanton
:Jason Priestley – Billy Breckinridge
:Stephen Lang – Ike Clanton
:Billy Bob Thornton – Johnny Tyler
:Charlton Heston – Henry Hooker
:Robert Mitchum – The Narrator
Source: Wikiquote