Wyatt Earp I won't be arrested today. You threw us, Johnny.
Played by Kevin Costner 
Wyatt Earp (1994) · 19 quotes
Wyatt Earp (1994) · 19 quotes
Most-quoted character in Wyatt Earp (1994): in 13 of its 19 quotes
A line from Wyatt EarpWe had no YMCA's. [To biographer Stuart Lake, when asked late in life why he'd spent so much time in saloons.]
More lines from Wyatt Earp
12 quotes Wyatt Earp Wyatt Earp The fight has now commenced, go to fighting or get away!
Wyatt Earp Mind me now, Mannen, put up those guns and go on home.
Wyatt Earp I think you came here to make a fight with me, and if you did, you can have one here right now.
Wyatt Earp 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.
Wyatt Earp 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.
Wyatt Earp 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.
Wyatt Earp 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.
Wyatt Earp 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.
Wyatt Earp Speed is fine, accuracy is final [On the advantage of careful aiming of a weapon over rate of fire]
Wyatt Earp In a gun fight... You need to take your time in a hurry
Wyatt Earp Fast is fine but accuracy is final. You must learn to be slow in a hurry
