3:10 to Yuma 2007 quotes

Ben Wade

Byron's like a song with one note. You ever read another book in your life, Byron, besides the Bible?

Byron McElroy

No need.

Ben Wade

Byron acts pious. Few years ago, when he was under contract to Central, I seen him and a bunch of other Pinks mow down 32 Apache women and children.

Byron McElroy

Renegades... gunning down railroad men and their families. Picking 'em off the road one by one. Scalping 'em.

Ben Wade

There was young ones running around crying and screaming. No more than three years old. And his boys shot 'em all then pushed 'em into a ditch. Some of them was still crying. But I guess Byron figured that Jesus wouldn't mind. Apparently Jesus don't like the Apache.

Byron McElroy

Keep on talking... all the way to Yuma, right up them steps, to the rope, straight to Hell.

Ben Wade

Day I die, Byron, I'm getting sprung from Hell.

Ben Wade

I suppose it's too much to ask for a little quiet.

Tucker

The way I figured it is I'd be asleep in my own bed right now if it weren't for you. So if I got to be up, well, then, you're damn well gonna be up with me, too, Ben Wade. [singing] They're gonna hang me in the mornin', Before the night is done... Hang me in the mornin'... I'll never see the sun...

Ben Wade

They're gonna kill you and your father, William. They're gonna laugh while they do it. I think you know that.

William Evans

Call 'em off.

Ben Wade

Why should I?

William Evans

Because you're not all bad.

Ben Wade

Yes, I am.

William Evans

You saved us from those Indians.

Ben Wade

I saved myself.

William Evans

You got us through the tunnels. You helped us get away.

Ben Wade

If I had a gun in them tunnels, I would have used it on you.

William Evans

I don't believe you.

Ben Wade

Kid, I wouldn't last five minutes leading an outfit like that if I wasn't as rotten as hell.

Ben Wade

You want my cut, Dan? It's all yours.

Dan Evans

Isn't that kind of reckless of you, Wade? Seeing as, uh... you're so sure that, uh, your crew's coming to get you?

Ben Wade

Oh, they're coming, Dan. Sure as God's vengeance, they're coming.

Byron McElroy

What the **** kind of doctor are you, anyway?

Doc Potter

It's nice to have a conversation with a patient for a change.

Byron McElroy

If you're gonna kill me, just as soon get to it.

Ben Wade

I ain't gonna kill you. Not like this.

Byron McElroy

Won't change a thing, lettin' me live. I'll come for you.

Ben Wade

I'd be disappointed if you didn't.

Byron McElroy

We're taking you to Contention. Putting you on the 3:10 to Yuma day after tomorrow.

Tucker

You shouldn't have told him that!

Ben Wade

Relax, friend. Now if we get separated, I know where to meet up.

Charlie Prince

Here's to the four we lost in battle. And here's to the boss, who... had to say good-bye to Tommy Darden today. And that's too bad.

Ben Wade

Proverbs 13:3. "He that keepeth his mouth, "keepeth his life. He that opens his lips too wide shall bring on his own destruction."

Charlie Prince

Amen.

Ben Wade

Tommy was weak. Tommy was stupid. Tommy is dead.

Charlie Prince

Morning Pinkerton. Name's Charlie Prince. I expect you heard of me.

Byron McElroy

Well, I heard of a balled up whore named Charlie Princess. That you, missy?

Charlie Prince

I hate Pinkertons.

Dan Evans

William, I want you to give this back to your mother. I want you to tell her that it helped me find what was right.

William Evans

Pa... I can't. I can't just leave you.

Dan Evans

I'm gonna be a day behind you, William. Unless something happens, and if it does, I need a man at the ranch to run things, protect our family, and I know that you can do that because you've become a fine man, William. You've become a fine man. You got all the best parts of me. What few there are. [Dan shakes William's hand] And you just remember that your old man walked Ben Wade to that station when nobody else would.

Dan Evans

What did Doc Potter give his life for, William? McElroy...

Ben Wade

Little red ants on a hill.

Grayson Butterfield

I'll pay you the 200, Dan. Right now. And you can walk away.

Dan Evans

You know, this whole ride, that's been nagging on me. That's what the government gave me for my leg. $198.36. And the funny thing is that... when you think about it, which I have been lately, was they weren't paying me to walk away. They were paying me so they could walk away.

Ben Wade

Don't muddy the past in the present, Dan.

Dan Evans

No, no, no, Wade. I'm seeing the world the way it is.

Grayson Butterfield

Twenty-two robberies. Over four hundred thousand dollars in losses. More in delays. The Southern Pacific will have Ben Wade convicted in a federal court. Hanged in public. An example made. And we will pay to make it happen.

Ben Wade

Y'all notice he didn't mention any of the lives I've taken.

If my pa wants to, he could shoot you dead. He can shoot a jackrabbit at 50 yards!

Dan Evans

Shooting an animal's a lot different than, uh, shooting a man, son.

Ben Wade

No, it isn't. Not in my opinion. We could ask Byron here. Now, Byron, he's killed dozens of people: Men and women and children, miners, Apache.

Byron McElroy

Not a soul taken didn't deserve what it got.

Ben Wade

Every way of man is right in his own eyes, Byron. The Lord ponders the heart. Proverbs 21.

Walter Boles

Ben Wade gunned down my kid brother in front of me six years ago in Abilene.

Ben Wade

Your brother was a lyin', bilkin' card sharp. That is, if he's the asshole I remember. Could, of course, been some other asshole I killed that I forgot about.

William Evans

You ever been to Dodge?

Ben Wade

Yes, indeed. Meanest, most beautiful dirty city there ever was. Saloon was just overflowing with cattle drivers, and road agents, prospectors, gunslingers, gamblers, and women. Women who'll do things to you, you'll never forget.

Doc Potter

They'll give you a disease you'll never forget.

Ben Wade

Money in your pocket in Dodge City, you can have everything a man ever wished for. Everything a man comes to need. I got there on my own as a boy not much bigger than you.

Dan Evans

And how many men you killed since then, Wade? How many families you destroyed?

Ben Wade

Quite a few.

Doc Potter

Is it true that you dynamited a wagon full of prospectors in the Western Territories last spring?

Ben Wade

No, that's a lie. It was a train full.