# Wyatt Earp (film)

Wyatt Earp is a 1994 American semi-biographical Western film directed by Lawrence Kasdan and co-written by Kasdan and Dan Gordon.

## Wyatt Earp

* I won't be arrested today. You threw us, Johnny.
* The fight has now commenced, go to fighting or get away!
* Mind me now, Mannen, put up those guns and go on home.
* I think you came here to make a fight with me, and if you did, you can have one here right now.
* I am a friend of Doc Holliday, because when I was city marshal of Dodge City, Kansas, he came to my rescue and saved my life, when I was surrounded by desperados.
* I was tired of being threatened by Ike Clanton and his gang. I believed from what they had said to others and to me, and from their movements, that they intended to assassinate me the first chance they had, and I thought if I had to fight for my life against them, I had better make them face me in an open fight.
* You damned dirty cur thief, you have been threatening our lives, and I know it. I think I should be justified shooting you down any place I should meet you, but if you are anxious to make a fight, I will go anywhere on earth to make a fight with you, even over to the San Simon among your own crowd.
* I did not intend to fight unless it became necessary in self defense, and in the performance of official duty. When Billy Clanton and Frank McLowry drew their pistolsl I knew it was a fight for life, and I drew and fired in defense of my own life and the lives of my brothers and Doc Holliday.
* Doc [Holliday] was a dentist whom necessity had made a gambler; a gentleman whom disease had made a frontier vagabond; a philosopher whom life had made a caustic wit; a long lean ash-blond fellow nearly dead with consumption, and at the same time the most skillful gambler and the nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a gun that I ever knew.
* We had no YMCA's. [To biographer Stuart Lake, when asked late in life why he'd spent so much time in saloons.]
* In a gun fight... You need to take your time in a hurry
* Fast is fine but accuracy is final. You must learn to be slow in a hurry

## Nicholas Earp

* Remember this, all of you. Nothing counts so much as blood. The rest are just strangers.

## Doc Holiday

* There is no hope,my friend. There is only what we do.

## Others on Wyatt Earp

* Wyatt Earp is one of the few men I personally knew in the West in the early days, whom I regarded as absolutely destitute of physical fear. I have often remarked, and I am not alone in my conclustions, that what goes for courage in a man is generally the fear of what others will think of him-- in other words, personal bravery is largely made up of self-respect, egotism, and an apprehension of the opinions of others. Wyatt Earp's daring and apparent recklessness in time of danger is wholly characteristic; personal fear doesn't enter into the equation, and when everything is said and done, I believe he values his own opinion of himself more than that of others, and it is his own good report that he seeks to preserve. . . . He never at any time in his career resorted to the pistol excepting in cases where such a course was absolutely necessary. Wyatt could scrap with his fists, and had often taken all the fight out of bad men, as they were called, with no other weapons than those provided by nature. -Bat Masterson
* [Wyatt] Earp is a man who never smiled or laughed. He was the most fearless man I ever saw. . . . He is an honest man. All officers here who were associated with him declare that he is honest, and would have decided according to his belief in the face of an arsenal. -Dick Cogdell
* Wyatt Earp was a wonderful officer. He was game to the last ditch and apparently afraid of nothing. The cowmen all respected him and seemed to recognize his superiority and authority at such times as he had to use it. -Jimmy Cairns

## Dialogue

    Tom McLaury: If you want to fight, I'll make a fight with you anywhere.
    Wyatt Earp: All right, make a fight right here.
    Wyatt slaps McLaury
    Wyatt Earp: Jerk your gun, use it.
    Johnny Behan: I will have to arrest you.
    Wyatt Earp: Any decent officer can arrest me, but that you or none your kind must not try it.
    Johnny Behan: I want to see you Wyatt.
    Wyatt Earp: If you're not careful, you'll see me once too often, Johnny.

## Cast

* Kevin Costner - Wyatt Earp
** Ian Bohen - teenage Wyatt
* Dennis Quaid - Doc Holliday
* Gene Hackman - Nicholas Porter Earp
* David Andrews - James Earp
* Linden Ashby - Morgan Earp
* Jim Caviezel - Warren Earp
* John Doe (musician) - Tommy 'Behind-The-Deuce' O'Rourke
* Jeff Fahey - Ike Clanton
* Joanna Going - Josie Marcus
* Mark Harmon - Johnny Behan
* Michael Madsen - Virgil Earp
* Catherine O'Hara - Allie Earp
* Bill Pullman - Ed Masterson
* Isabella Rossellini - Big Nose Kate
* Tom Sizemore as Bat Masterson
* JoBeth Williams as Bessie Earp
* Mare Winningham - Mattie Blaylock
* James Gammon - Mr. Sutherland
* Karen Grassle - Mrs. Sutherland
* Rex Lins - Frank McLaury
* Gabriel Folse - Billy Clanton
* Mackenzie Astin - Francis O'Rourke
* Randle Mell - John Clum
* Adam Baldwin - Tom McLaury
* Annabeth Gish - Urilla Sutherland
* Lewis Smith - Curly Bill Brocius
* Betty Buckley - Virginia Earp
* Alison Elliott - Lou Earp
* Téa Leoni - Sally

## External links

* Wyatt Earp quotes at the Internet Movie Database