Dan Evans It's too bad the doctors at Essex saved so much of my leg. I read that the pension act pays by the pound now.
2nd most-quoted character in 3:10 to Yuma (2007): in 10 of its 35 quotes
Most scenes with: Ben Wade (4), William Evans (3)
If I don't go, we got to pack up and leave, and God knows where, without a prayer, dirt-poor. Now I'm tired, Alice. I am tired of watching my boys go hungry. I'm tired of the way that they look at me. I'm tired of the way that you don't. I've been standing on one leg for three damn years, waiting for God to do me a favor. And He ain't listening.
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3 quotes Dan Evans Dan Evans When you think about it, which I have been lately, is they weren't paying me to walk away. They were paying me so they could walk away.
Dan Evans I ain't never been no hero, Wade. The only battle I seen, we was in retreat. My foot got shot off by one of my own men. You try telling that story to your boy. See how he looks at you then.
Scenes with Dan Evans
6 scenes
You gonna hock that?
Dan Evans Someday, William... you walk in my shoes, you might understand.
I ain't ever walking in your shoes.
Mark Evans
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.
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.
Not a soul taken didn't deserve what it got.
Every way of man is right in his own eyes, Byron. The Lord ponders the heart. Proverbs 21.
You ever been to Dodge?
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.
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?
Quite a few.
Doc Potter Is it true that you dynamited a wagon full of prospectors in the Western Territories last spring?
No, that's a lie. It was a train full.
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?
Oh, they're coming, Dan. Sure as God's vengeance, they're coming.
Dan Evans What did Doc Potter give his life for, William? McElroy...
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.
Don't muddy the past in the present, Dan.
Dan Evans No, no, no, Wade. I'm seeing the world the way it is.
Dan Evans [handing him Alice's brooch]
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.
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.
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