Tombstone (film) Quotes

Tombstone (film) is a TV program that was first aired in 1970 . Tombstone ended its run in 1970.

It features James Jacks as producer, Bruce Broughton in charge of musical score, and William A. Fraker as head of cinematography.

Tombstone (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Tombstone (film) is 130 minutes long. Tombstone (film) is distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

The cast includes: Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday, Stephen Lang as Ike Clanton, Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp, Michael Biehn as Johnny Ringo, Joanna Pacuła as Kate, Thomas Haden Church as Billy Clanton, Michael Rooker as Sherman McMasters, Billy Bob Thornton as Johnny Tyler, Robert John Burke as Frank McLaury, Peter Sherayko as Texas Jack, Bill Paxton as Morgan Earp, Tomas Arana as Frank Stillwell, Sam Elliott as Virgil Earp, Dana Delany as Josephine Marcus, Billy Zane as Mr. Fabian, Dana Delany as Josephine, Paula Malcomson as Allie Earp, Jon Tenney as Sheriff John Behan, and John Corbett as Barnes.

Tombstone (film) Quotes

Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp

• (Kurt Russell) "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?"

• (Kurt Russell) "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."

• (Kurt Russell) "How we feelin' today, Doc?"
• (Val Kilmer) "I'm dying. How are you?"
• (Kurt Russell) "Pretty much the same."

• (Kurt Russell) "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."

• (Kurt Russell) "You gonna do somethin' or just stand there and bleed?"

• (Kurt Russell) "How many cards do you want?"
• (Val Kilmer) "I don't want to play any more."
• (Kurt Russell) "How many?"
• (Val Kilmer) "Damn it, you're the most fallible, stubborn, self-deluded, bullheaded man I've ever known in my entire life."
• (Kurt Russell) "I call."
• (Kurt Russell) "You win."
• (Val Kilmer) "You're the only human being in my entire life that ever gave me hope --"

• (Kurt Russell) "Sheriff Behan, have you met Doc Holliday?"
• (Val Kilmer) "Piss on you, Wyatt."

• (Kurt Russell) ""It's not your problem, Doc, you don't have to mix up in this.""
• (Val Kilmer) ""That is a hell of a thing for you to say to me.""

• (Kurt Russell) "All right, Clanton -- you called down the thunder, well now you've got it. You see that?"
• (Kurt Russell) "It says United States Marshal."
• (Stephen Lang) "Wyatt, please, I --"
• (Kurt Russell) "Take a good look at him, Ike -- 'cause that's how you're gonna end up."
• (Kurt Russell) "The Cowboys are finished, you understand? I see a red sash, I kill the man wearin' it."
• (Kurt Russell) "So run, you cur -- RUN. Tell all the other curs the law's comin'."
• (Kurt Russell) "You tell 'em I'M coming -- and hell's coming with me, you hear? --"
• (Kurt Russell) "Hell's coming with me."

• (Kurt Russell) "Well, I'll be damned."
• (Val Kilmer) "You may indeed, if you get lucky."

• (Kurt Russell) "You could have been busted up back there, or killed."
• (Dana Delany) "Fun, though, wasn't it?"
• (Kurt Russell) "You'd die for fun?"
• (Dana Delany) "Wouldn't you?"

• (Kurt Russell) "I don't think I'll let you arrest us today, Behan."

• (Kurt Russell) "Oh my God."

• (Kurt Russell) "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."
• (Kurt Russell) "Already got a guilty conscience. Might as well have the money, too. Good day, now."

• (Kurt Russell) "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."

• (Kurt Russell) "Go ahead, skin it. Skin that smokewagon and see what happens."
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "Listen, mister, I; I'm; I'm; I'm gettin' awful tired of your --"
• (Kurt Russell) "I'm gettin' tired of your gas. Now jerk that pistol and go to work."
• (Kurt Russell) "I said throw down, boy."

• (Kurt Russell) "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"

• (Kurt Russell) "What in the hell are you doin'? I told you we weren't gettin' involved."
• (Sam Elliott) "You got us involved when you brought us here."
• (Kurt Russell) "Now you hold on a minute, Virg."
• (Sam Elliott) "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 god**** vulture. If we're gonna have a future in this town, it's gotta have some law and order."
• (Kurt Russell) "Don't do this to me."
• (Sam Elliott) "It's got nothin' to do with you. It's got to do wi --"
• (Kurt Russell) "Nothin' to do with me? I'm your brother, for Christ's sake. God, I don't believe this."
• (Kurt Russell) "Talk to him, will you? Or hit him."
• (Kurt Russell) "Ah, God, don't tell me."
• (Bill Paxton) "Like you said, Wyatt, we're brothers. Gotta back your brother's play. Just did like I figured you would."

• (Kurt Russell) "You're the only person I can afford to loose to any more. How we feelin' today doc?"
• (Val Kilmer) "I'm dyin', how are you?"
• (Kurt Russell) "Pretty much the same."

• (Kurt Russell) "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."

Paula Malcomson as Allie Earp

• (Paula Malcomson) "Tonight, me and my old man are gonna have some fun. Come on, get movin', old man."
• (Sam Elliott) "Maiden name was Sullivan."

Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday

• (Val Kilmer) "Oh. Johnny, I apologize; I forgot you were there. You may go now."

• (Val Kilmer) "Why Kate, you're not wearing a bustle. How lewd."

• (Val Kilmer) "I'm your huckleberry --"

• (Turkey Creek Jack Johnson) "Nobody move."
• (Val Kilmer) "Nonsense. By all means, move."

• (Val Kilmer) "What did you ever want?"
• (Kurt Russell) "Just to live a normal life."
• (Val Kilmer) "There's no normal life, Wyatt, it's just life. Get on with it."
• (Kurt Russell) "Don't know how."
• (Val Kilmer) "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."
• (Kurt Russell) "Thanks for always being there, Doc."

• (Val Kilmer) "It would appear that the strain was more than he could bear."

• (Turkey Creek Jack Johnson) "Doc, you oughta be in bed, what the hell you doin this for anyway?"
• (Val Kilmer) "Wyatt Earp is my friend."
• (Turkey Creek Jack Johnson) "Hell, I got lots of friends."
• (Val Kilmer) "I don't."

• (Val Kilmer) "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."

• (Val Kilmer) "Sheriff, allow me to present a pair of fellow sophisticates. Turkey Creek Jack Johnson and Texas Jack Vermillion. Mind your ear, Creek."

• (Val Kilmer) "My hypocrisy goes only so far."

• (Val Kilmer) "Maybe poker's just not your game, Ike. I know: let's have a spelling contest."

• (Val Kilmer) "I stand corrected, Wyatt. You're an oak."

• (Val Kilmer) "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."

• (Val Kilmer) "Forgive me if I don't shake hands."

• (Val Kilmer) "Why Johnny Tyler. You madcap."
• (Billy Bob Thornton) "Doc?"
• (Val Kilmer) "Where you goin' with that shotgun?"

• (Val Kilmer) "Very cosmopolitan."

• (Val Kilmer) "Nonsense, I have not yet begun to defile myself."

• (Val Kilmer) "You're no daisy. You're no daisy at all. Poor soul, you were just too high strung."

• (Val Kilmer) "Why Johnny Ringo, you look like somebody just walked over your grave."

• (Val Kilmer) "You must be Ringo."
• (Val Kilmer) "Look, darlin', it's Johnny Ringo. Deadliest pistoleer since Wild Bill, they say. What do you think, darlin', should I hate him?"

• (Val Kilmer) "And so she walked out of our lives forever."

• (Val Kilmer) "It's true, you are a good woman. Then again, you may be the antichrist."

Jon Tenney as Sheriff John Behan

• (Jon Tenney) "We're growing. Be as big as San Francisco in a few years, and just as sophisticated."

Michael Biehn as Johnny Ringo

• (Michael Biehn) "You gonna stick with your new friends?"
• (Michael Rooker) "'Least they don't go around scarin' women."

• (Michael Biehn) "All right, 'lunger'. Let's do it."
• (Val Kilmer) "Say when."

• (Michael Biehn) "My fight's not with you, Holliday."
• (Val Kilmer) "I beg to differ, sir. We started a game we never got to finish. "Play for Blood," remember?"
• (Michael Biehn) "Oh that. I was just foolin' about."
• (Val Kilmer) "I wasn't."

• (Michael Biehn) "I want your blood. And I want your souls. And I want them both right now."

• (Curly Bill) "Hey Johnny, what did that Mexican mean by a sick horse is going to get us?"
• (Michael Biehn) "He was quoting the Bible, Revelations. "Behold the pale horse". The man who "sat on him was Death -- and Hell followed with him"."

• (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?"
• (Michael Biehn) "I already did it."

• (Michael Biehn) "Well,I didn't think ya had it in you."
• (Val Kilmer) "I'm your huckleberry."
• (Val Kilmer) "Why, Johnny Ringo, you look like somebody just walked over your grave."
• (Michael Biehn) "Fight's not with you, Holliday."
• (Val Kilmer) "I'll beg to differ, sir. We started a game we never got to finish. Play for blood, remember?"
• (Michael Biehn) "I was just foolin' about."
• (Val Kilmer) "I wasn't. And this time --"
• (Val Kilmer) "-- it's legal."
• (Michael Biehn) "All right, lunger. Let's do it."
• (Val Kilmer) "Say when."
• (Val Kilmer) "Poor soul. You were just too high-strung."
• (Val Kilmer) "I'm afraid the strain was more than he could bear. Oh, I wasn't quite as sick as I made out."
• (Kurt Russell) "Good God."
• (Val Kilmer) "My hypocrisy goes only so far."
• (Kurt Russell) "All right. Let's finish it."
• (Val Kilmer) "Indeed, sir. The last charge of Wyatt Earp and his immortals"

• (Florentino) "He talkin loco -- crazy -- somethin' about a sick horse comin' to get us."
• (Michael Biehn) "That's not what he said, you ignorant wretch. Your Spanish is worse than your English."

Billy Bob Thornton as Johnny Tyler

• (Billy Bob Thornton) "Well, for a man that don't go heeled, you run your mouth kinda reckless, don't you?"
• (Kurt Russell) "No need to go heeled to get the bulge on a tub like you."

• (Billy Bob Thornton) "Christ Almighty, it's like I'm sittin' here playin' cards with my brother's kids or somethin'. You nerve-wrackin' sons-a-bitches."

Joanna Pacuła as Kate

• (Joanna Pacuła) "I've been good to you, I've taken care of you. If you die, where does that leave me?"
• (Val Kilmer) "Without a meal ticket I suppose."
• (Joanna Pacuła) "You bastard."
• (Val Kilmer) "Why Kate, have you no kind words for me as I ride away?"
• (Val Kilmer) "I calculate not."

Peter Sherayko as Texas Jack

• (Peter Sherayko) "Did you ever see anything like that before?"
• (Turkey Creek Jack Johnson) "Hell, I ain't never even heard of anything like that."

Thomas Haden Church as Billy Clanton

• (Thomas Haden Church) "Is that "Old Dog Trey? Sounds like "Old Dog Trey.""
• (Val Kilmer) "Pardon?"
• (Thomas Haden Church) "Stephen Foster. "Oh, Susannah", "Camptown Races". Stephen stinking Foster."
• (Val Kilmer) "Ah, yes. Well, this happens to be a nocturne."
• (Thomas Haden Church) "A which?"
• (Val Kilmer) "You know, Frederic f***ing Chopin."

Robert John Burke as Frank McLaury

• (Robert John Burke) "I've got you now -- you son of a bitch."
• (Val Kilmer) "You're a daisy if you do."

Michael Rooker as Sherman McMasters

• (Michael Rooker) "Where is he?"
• (Val Kilmer) "Down by the creek, walking on water."

• (Michael Rooker) "If they were my brothers, I'd want revenge, too."
• (Val Kilmer) "Oh, make no mistake. It's not revenge he's after. It's a reckoning."

Bill Paxton as Morgan Earp

• (Bill Paxton) "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."
• (Kurt Russell) "Really? Well, what about hell? They got a sign there or what?"

• (Bill Paxton) "Remember what I said about people seein' a bright light before they die? It ain't true. I can't see a damn thing."

• (Bill Paxton) "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."

Stephen Lang as Ike Clanton

• (Stephen Lang) "What's wrong with him?"
• (Milt Joyce (owner) "Lunger."
• (Stephen Lang) "Yeah, well I hope you die."

• (Curly Bill) "Wyatt Earp, huh? I heard of you."
• (Stephen Lang) "Listen, Mr. Kansas Law Dog. Law don't go around here. Savvy?"
• (Kurt Russell) "I'm retired."
• (Curly Bill) "Good. That's real good."
• (Stephen Lang) "Yeah, that's good, Mr. Law Dog, 'cause law don't go around here."
• (Kurt Russell) "I heard you the first time."
• (Kurt Russell) "Winner to the King, five hundred dollars."
• (Curly Bill) "Shut up, Ike."
• (Michael Biehn) "And you must be Doc Holliday."
• (Val Kilmer) "That's the rumor."
• (Michael Biehn) "You retired too?"
• (Val Kilmer) "Not me. I'm in my prime."
• (Michael Biehn) "Yeah, you look it."
• (Val Kilmer) "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?"
• (Joanna Pacuła) "You don't even know him."
• (Val Kilmer) "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."
• (Kurt Russell) "He's drunk."
• (Val Kilmer) "In vino veritas."
• (Michael Biehn) "Age quod agis."
• (Val Kilmer) "Credat Judaeus apella, non ego."
• (Michael Biehn) "Eventus stultorum magister."
• (Val Kilmer) "In pace requiescat."
• (Tombstone Marshal Fred White) "Come on boys. We don't want any trouble in here. Not in any language."
• (Val Kilmer) "Evidently Mr. Ringo's an educated man. Now I really hate him."

Dana Delany as Josephine Marcus

• (Dana Delany) "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."
• (Kurt Russell) "You're different. No arguin' that. But you're a lady alright. I'd take my oath on it."

John Corbett as Barnes

• (John Corbett) "Wearing that badge don't make you right."

Sam Elliott as Virgil Earp

• (Sam Elliott) "What the hell kinda town is this?"
• (Bill Paxton) "Nice scenery."
• (Val Kilmer) "Well, an enchanted moment."
• (Dana Delany) "Interesting little scene. I wonder who that tall drink of water is."
• (Billy Zane) "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."
• (Dana Delany) "I want one."
• (Billy Zane) "Happy hunting."

Tomas Arana as Frank Stillwell

• (Tomas Arana) "That's Virgil there with the women."
• (Stephen Lang) "He's mine, understand?"
• (Tomas Arana) "Hey Mattie. Where's Wyatt?"
• (Kurt Russell) "Right behind you, Stillwell."

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