I am not about to let this thread die yet. My focus in this post will be on Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday. IMO the best acting job of that year and his best ever. I consider it one of the finest performances as an actor that I have ever seen. One character in one movie and this many great lines.
If you don't love this movie, you have no soul.
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Doc Holliday: It appears my hypocrisy knows no bounds.
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Doc Holliday: Ah, yes. Well, this happens to be a nocturne.
Billy Clanton: A which?
Doc Holliday: You know, Frederic ****ing Chopin.
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Billy Clanton: Why, it's the drunk piano player. You're so drunk, you can't hit nothin'. In fact, you're probably seeing double.
[
Billy Clanton draws a knife]
Doc Holliday: [
takes out a second gun] I have two guns, one for each of ya.
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Doc Holliday: I'm your huckleberry...
Doc Holliday: [
to Johnny Ringo] Why Johnny Ringo, you look like somebody just walked over your grave.
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.
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.
Doc Holliday: [
to Johnny Ringo, after shooting him in a duel] You're no daisy! You're no daisy at all. Poor soul, you were just too high strung.
Doc Holliday: [
after killing Johnny Ringo] It would appear that the strain was more than he could bear.
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Doc Holliday: Nonsense, I have not yet begun to defile myself.
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Turkey Creek Jack Johnson: Why you doin' this, Doc?
Doc Holliday: Because Wyatt Earp is my friend.
Turkey Creek Jack Johnson: Friend? Hell, I got lots of friends.
Doc Holliday: ...I don't.
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Sherman McMasters: [
about Wyatt] If they were my brothers, I'd want revenge, too.
Doc Holliday: Oh, make no mistake. It's not revenge he's after. It's a reckoning.
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Doc Holliday: It's true, you are a good woman. Then again, you may be the antichrist.
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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.
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Doc Holliday: Why Kate, you're not wearing a bustle. How lewd.
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Doc Holliday: Oh. Johnny, I apologize; I forgot you were there. You may go now.
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Kate: I've been good to you, I've taken care of you. If you die, where does that leave me?
Doc Holliday: Without a meal ticket I suppose.
[
Doc rides horse out of barn into stable area, Kate runs out after him punching him in anger]
Kate: You *******!
Doc Holliday: Why Kate, have you no kind words for me as I ride away?
[
pause]
Doc Holliday: I calculate not.
[
rides off]
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Ike Clanton: What is that now? Twelve hands in a row? Holliday, son of a *****, 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!
