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“- John Herod: It's true that you gunned down four men?
- Ace Hanlon: Two with my left hand. Two with my right hand. You see, the truth is that I am just as good with either.
- John Herod: You must be the fastest gun in the west... That, or the biggest liar.”
Gene Hackman - Herod
Lance Henriksen - Ace Hanlon
“- Ace Hanlon: You wanna play poker with me, little lady?
- Ellen: Looks like you're having a pretty good time playing with yourself.”
Lance Henriksen - Ace Hanlon
Sharon Stone - Ellen
“- Kid: I'm worth $3,000 in four states. Seventy-five offenses and no convictions. My name's Fee but, uh... everyone calls me the Kid.
- Ellen: Congratulations.”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Kid
Sharon Stone - Ellen
“I'm so damned fast I can wake up at the crack of dawn, rob two banks, a train and a stage coach, shoot the tail feathers off a duck's ass at 300 feet, and still be back in bed before you wake up next to me.”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Kid
“- John Herod: I could give you more money than you could ever spend.
- Ellen: I wouldn't feel like I'd earned it.
- John Herod: Oh yes, you would.”
Gene Hackman - Herod
Sharon Stone - Ellen
“Like I always say - put a fox in the henhouse and you'll have chicken for dinner every time.”
Gene Hackman - Herod
“The Smith and Wesson Schofield .45. Just meat and potatoes. Me and Jesse James think it's the best handgun in the world. Had the trigger guard removed, it saves drawin' time. Don't ever wear it when you're drunk, or you'll kill your feet.”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Kid
“- Cort: Last night, The Kid. Tonight, Herod. You're a busy woman. Any man in this town you're not interested in?
- Ellen: Yeah. You.”
Russell Crowe - Cort
Sharon Stone - Ellen
“- John Herod: I was married to a beautiful woman. She was unfaithful.
- Ellen: Where is she now?
- John Herod: I told you, she was unfaithful.”
Gene Hackman - Herod
Sharon Stone - Ellen
“- Cort: I'd like to kill them all for what they've done. But I won't. Killing people is wrong.
- Ellen: Some people deserve to die.”
Russell Crowe - Cort
Sharon Stone - Ellen
“Is it possible? Is it possible to improve on perfection?”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Kid
“- Cantrell: Sergeant Cantrell.
- Shemp: How do you spell that?
- Cantrell: Correctly.”
Keith David - Sgt. Cantrell
Bruce Campbell - Wedding Shemp
“All I hear from you, you spineless cowards, is how poor you are; how you can't afford my taxes. Yet somehow, you managed to find the money to hire a gunfighter to kill me. If ya got so much money, I'm just gonna have to take some more. Because clearly some of you haven't got the message! This is my town! I run everything! If you live to see the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Gene Hackman - Herod
“- Ellen: In case you forgot, Preacher, I saved your life last night.
- Cort: No, I think you just stretched it out a bit. I might've even gone to heaven if you'd let me die.
- Ellen: Sorry.”
Russell Crowe - Cort
Sharon Stone - Ellen
“- Scars: I need a woman.
- Ellen: You need a bath.”
Mark Boone Junior - Scars
Sharon Stone - Ellen
“- Scars: You're purty.
- Ellen: You're not.”
Mark Boone Junior - Scars
Sharon Stone - Ellen
“The gunfight is in the head, not the hands.”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Kid
“- Blind Boy: John Herod owns that house. He gets fifty cents of every dollar in this town.
- Ellen: What does the town get?
- Blind Boy: Huh... they get to live.”
- Blind Boy
Sharon Stone - Ellen