Ben Wade Well, would you look at all this? Y'all spared no expense this time, Byron. I gotta say, though, it's probably cheaper just to let me rob the damn thing.
Played by Russell Crowe 
3:10 to Yuma (2007) · 35 quotes
3:10 to Yuma (2007) · 35 quotes
Most-quoted character in 3:10 to Yuma (2007): in 20 of its 35 quotes
Most scenes with: Dan Evans (4), Byron McElroy (4), William Evans (2)
Now, I always liked you, Byron. But you never knew when to shut up. Even bad men love their mamas.
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7 quotes Ben Wade Ben Wade Well, Tommy... it seems that there was a Pinkerton... inside that coach that wasn't quite dead yet. Now, I know Charlie told you, because... we done got but a few rules in this outfit. And this is what happens when you put us all at risk.
Ben Wade It's man's nature to take what he wants, Dan. That's how we're born.
Ben Wade Your conscience is sensitive, Dan. I don't think it's my favorite part of you.
Ben Wade You do one good deed for somebody... I imagine it's habit-forming. Something decent. See that grateful look in their eyes, imagine it makes you feel like Christ Hisself.
Ben Wade Now, you see, Dan... generally, pretty much everyone wants to live.
Ben Wade You ever read the Bible, Dan? I read it one time. I was eight years old. My daddy just got hisself killed over a shot of whiskey, and my mama said, "We're going back East to start over." So she gave me a Bible, sat me down in the train station, told me to read it. She was gonna get our tickets. Well, I did what she said. I read that Bible from cover to cover. It took me three days. She never came back.
Scenes with Ben Wade
12 scenes
If you're gonna kill me, just as soon get to it.
Ben Wade I ain't gonna kill you. Not like this.
Won't change a thing, lettin' me live. I'll come for you.
Ben Wade I'd be disappointed if you didn't.
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."
Amen.
Ben Wade Tommy was weak. Tommy was stupid. Tommy is dead.
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.
Mark Evans
If my pa wants to, he could shoot you dead. He can shoot a jackrabbit at 50 yards!
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.
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.
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.
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 Byron's like a song with one note. You ever read another book in your life, Byron, besides the Bible?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ben Wade You want my cut, Dan? It's all yours.
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.
Ben Wade They're gonna kill you and your father, William. They're gonna laugh while they do it. I think you know that.
Call 'em off.
Ben Wade Why should I?
Because you're not all bad.
Ben Wade Yes, I am.
You saved us from those Indians.
Ben Wade I saved myself.
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.
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.
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.
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.
No, no, no, Wade. I'm seeing the world the way it is.
