Doc Holliday Why, Kate, you're not wearing a bustle... how lewd.
Played by Val Kilmer 
Tombstone (1993) · 69 quotes
Tombstone (1993) · 69 quotes
Most-quoted character in Tombstone (1993): in 42 of its 69 quotes
Most scenes with: Wyatt Earp (7), Billy Clanton (3), Jack Johnson (3)
Ed, what an ugly thing to say. I abhor ugliness... does this mean we're not friends anymore? You know, Ed, if I thought you weren't my friend, I just don't think I could bear it. (sets his guns on the table) There. Now we can be friends again.
More lines from Doc Holliday
25 quotes Doc Holliday Doc Holliday Why Ike, whatever do you mean?
Doc Holliday I'm your Huckleberry.
Doc Holliday You're no daisy. You're no daisy at all!
Doc Holliday No. Not me. I'm in my prime.
Doc Holliday Indeed sir, the last charge of Wyatt Earp and his immortals.
Doc Holliday I've got two guns... (spins them in opposite circles). One for each of ya. (In response to the comment that he is seeing double)
Doc Holliday It appears my hypocrisy knows no bounds.
Doc Holliday I have not yet begun to defile myself.
Doc Holliday Wyatt, I am rolling.
Doc Holliday It would appear that the strain was more than he could bear.
Doc Holliday I stand corrected. You are an oak.
Doc Holliday Poor soul, you were just too high strung.
Doc Holliday You're a daisy if you do.
Doc Holliday Very cosmopolitan.
Doc Holliday [quoting Coleridge]
Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Doc Holliday [To Sheriff Behan]
Forgive me if I don't shake hands.
Doc Holliday Yes, it's true. You are a good woman. Then again, you may be the Antichrist.
Doc Holliday That's what I love about Wyatt. He can talk himself into anything.
Doc Holliday Oh... Johnny, I apologize, I forgot you were there... You may go now.
Doc Holliday Why Johnny Tyler, you mad cap. Where'ya going with that shotgun?
Doc Holliday My sweet, soft Hungarian devil.
Doc Holliday There is no normal life Wyatt, There's just life.
Doc Holliday [On his deathbed, he notices he has bare feet, despite saying he wanted to die with his boots on]
Well, I'll be damned. Oh, this is funny.
Doc Holliday Say When
Scenes with Doc Holliday
16 scenes
[Johnny Ringo is awaiting Wyatt Earp's arrival in anticipation of a pistol duel.]
Well... I didn't think you had it in you.
Doc [lifting head to reveal his face]
I'm your huckleberry..
Doc [Ringo stops short, looking startled.]
Why, Johnny Ringo. You look like somebody just...walked over your grave.
Fight's not with you, Holliday....
Doc Oh, I beg to differ, sir. You and I started a game we never got to finish. Play for blood, remember?
I was just fooling about.
Doc [smirks]
I wasn't. And this time...[opens overcoat to reveal badge] It's legal.
[Doc Holliday, Jack Johnson, Jack Vermillion and Sherman McMasters have just witnessed an improbable gunbattle victory in which Wyatt Earp stepped directly into the open line of fire and came out unharmed.]
Where is he?
Doc Down by the creek..[sarcastically] Walkin' on the water.
Sherman McMasters [referring to the shootings of Morgan and Virgil Earp]
If they were my brothers, I'd want revenge, too.
Doc Oh, make no mistake; it's not revenge he's looking for. It's a reckoning.
[Doc begins coughing violently.]
Doc, you ought to be in bed, what the hell you doin' this for anyway?
Doc Because, Wyatt Earp is my friend.
Hell, I've got lots of friends.
Doc I don't.
And you must be Doc Holliday.
Doc That's the rumor.
What about you, are you retired?
Doc Not me. I'm in my prime.
Yeah, you look it.
Doc [incredulously]
And you must be Ringo. Look, darling, Johnny Ringo. The deadliest pistoleer since Wild Bill, they say. What do you think, darling? Should I hate him?
Big Nose Kate You don't even know him.
Doc Yes, but there's just something about him. Something around the eyes, I don't know, reminds me of... me. No. I'm sure of it, I hate him.
Doc En vino veritas. [Latin: "In wine is truth".]
Age quod agis. [Latin: "Do what you do best".]
Doc Credat Judaeus apella, non ego. [Latin: "The Jew Apella may believe it, not I", loosely meaning "I do not believe drinking is what I do best".]
Eventus stultorum magister. [Latin: "Events are the teachers of fools.", loosely meaning "Fools have to learn from their experiences."]
Doc [flashing an evilly playful smirk]
In pace requiescat. [Latin: "Rest in peace." loosely meaning "The experience that you learn from will be your funeral."]
Marshal Fred White
Come on boys. We don't want any trouble in here. Not in any language.
Doc That's Latin, darlin', evidently Mr. Ringo here's an educated man. Now I really hate him.
[The Earp brothers, their wives, Doc and Big Nose Kate are in the balcony at the Bird Cage Theatre. Wyatt is reading a playbill after viewing a theatrical performance of Goethe's Faust.]
I wonder who the devil was?
[Josephine Marcus removes her mask, revealing herself to have been playing the part of Satan]
I'll be damned!
Doc [leaning forward]
You may indeed, sir, if you get lucky.
Ike Clanton [Doc Holliday has beaten Ike Clanton at a game of poker once again.]
What is that now? Twelve hands in a row? Holliday, son of a bitch, nobody's that lucky.
Doc Why Ike, whatever do you mean? Maybe poker's just not your game. I know, let's have a spelling contest!
[Billy Clanton is antagonizing Doc Holliday, who is playing Chopin on a harpsichord]
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You know any Stephen Foster?
Doc Holliday [annoyed]
Pardon?
Stephen Foster. Oh, Susannah, Camptown Races. Stephen stinkin' Foster!
Doc Well, this happens to be a nocturne.
Doc A nocturne! You know, Frederic **** Chopin?
Ike Clanton [Curly Bill has just shot Marshal White to death. Wyatt has him by his ear, and is fending off an erstwhile lynch mob, announcing his intent to take him before the judge in Tucson when he is accosted by the Clanton brothers.]
Hey, Kansas law dog, you turn him loose or we'll tear you apart...
[presses his pistol to Ike's forehead]
You die first, get it? Your friends might get me in a rush, but not before I make your head into a canoe, you understand me?
He's bluffing! Let's take him!
Ike [frightened]
No, he's not bluffing.
You ain't as stupid as you look, Ike..
Doc [stepping out from the saloon, towards Billy Clanton, with gun drawn]
And you, music lover, you're next.
It's the drunk piano player. You couldn't hit nothin'. [Draws knife.] In fact, you're probably seeing *double*.
Doc [draws second gun]
I have two guns, one for each of you.
Doc Holliday [Johnny Tyler stalks after Wyatt with a shotgun. Just as he's about to pull the trigger...]
Why, Johnny Tyler! You madcap.
Doc Holliday Where do you think you're going with that shotgun?
...I-I didn't know you was back in town!
Is that "Old Dog Tray?" It sounds to me like "Old Dog Tray." You know, Stephen Foster. "Oh, Susannah," "Camptown Races." Stephen stinking Foster!
Doc Ah, yes. Well, this happens to be a nocturne.
A which?
Doc You know, Frederic **** Chopin.
[Doc Holliday joins the Earps just before the gunfight at the OK Corrall]
It's not your problem, Doc. You don't have to mix up in this.
Doc Holliday [Glares at Wyatt]
That is a hell of a thing for you to say to me!
Kate I don't understand. I'm your woman, you get killed, where's it leave me?
Doc Holliday Without a meal ticket I suppose.
Kate ... You bastard.
Doc Holliday I'm leaving now darling.
Kate You bastard!
Doc Holliday Have you no kind word to say to me before I ride away?
Doc Holliday [Kate turns around and says nothing]
I calculate not.
Doc Holliday Nonsense! By all means, move.
What makes a man like Ringo, Doc? What makes him do the things he does?
Doc Holliday A man like Ringo has a great empty hole through the middle of him. He can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it.
What does he need?
Doc Holliday Revenge.
For what?
Doc Holliday Being born.
How are you?
Doc Holliday I'm dying, how are you?
Pretty much the same.
Doc Holliday What did you ever want?
Just to live a normal life.
Doc Holliday There's no normal life, Wyatt, it's just life. Get on with it.
Don't know how.
Doc Holliday Sure you do. Say goodbye to me. Go grab that spirited actress and make her your own. Take that beauty and run, don't look back. Live every second. Live right up to the hilt. Live Wyatt. Live for me. Wyatt, if you were ever my friend, if you ever had even the slightest of feelin' for me, leave now. Leave now... Please.
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