The Quick and the Dead (1995)
Sharon Stone: Ellen
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Quotes
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Ellen : [female gunslinger walks up behind a preoccupied bartender] How about a room?
Horace : Whores next door.
Ellen : [carefully sets her cigar down] Say that again.
Horace : I said whores next door.
Ellen : [kicks the stool out from under him, catches his liquor bottle as he falls, & pours herself a drink] Now, do you have a room available?
Horace : Uh, room and bath, yes, ma'am, coming up!
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Ace Hanlon : You wanna play poker with me, little lady?
Ellen : Looks like you're having a pretty good time playing with yourself.
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John Herod : I was married to a beautiful woman. She was unfaithful.
Ellen : Where is she now?
John Herod : I told you, she was unfaithful.
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Ellen : Some people deserve to die.
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John Herod : You're not fast enough for me!
Ellen : Today I am.
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John Herod : I could give you more money than you could ever spend.
Ellen : I wouldn't feel like I'd earned it.
John Herod : [Knowingly] Oh yes, you would.
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Ellen : You stole my life.
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Ellen : [after Herod accepts the Kid's challenge] You would fight your own son? I'm gonna kill you if I have to ride all the way to Hell to do it.
John Herod : Do you have some particular problem with me?
Ellen : I'll let you know.
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John Herod : So, why'd you come here tonight?
Ellen : You invited me.
John Herod : You could have turned me down.
Ellen : I wanted to see what kind of man you are.
John Herod : What kind of man am I?
John Herod : The kind people hate.
Ellen : I'm not trying to be popular. The people in this town, they, uh... they need me. I bring a sense of, uh... order to their lives. Not law, order.
Ellen : Like hanging a preacher in the saloon?
John Herod : He's no preacher. He's a fraud. If a man is a killer, then that's what he is. There's no dishonor. But don't let that same man suddenly tell me that's not in his blood anymore. That's worse than a liar.
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[last lines]
Ellen : [giving her father's marshal badge to Cort] The law has come back to town.
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John Herod : How do you feel after surviving your first day?
Ellen : Same as yesterday.
John Herod : No. Your eyes are shining. You passed a test. You feel alive.
Ellen : I guess it doesn't excite me as much as it does you.
John Herod : You think I do this contest because it's fun? Look at this town. It's full of people who'd kill you for your bootlaces. At least this way, I get to face my enemies. They can't sneak up and shoot me in the back. And of course, I always win.
Ellen : Maybe one day your luck will run out.
John Herod : I don't win because I'm lucky.
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John Herod : [threatening to hang Cort] I want you in that contest.
Cort : No.
John Herod : [shooting at the chair on which Cort stands] Think about it.
[taking two more shots]
John Herod : Last chance. Yes or no?
Cort : Go to hell.
[as Herod chambers another round, the chair begins to crack, ready to break]
Ellen : Sign me up.
Horace : No women in quick-draw. It's against the rules.
John Herod : There's no rule against ladies. It's just that women can't shoot for shit.
[laughing with the other patrons]
John Herod : Adios, reverend.
[he shoots the chair one last time, and as Cort begins to hang, Ellen frees him by shooting the beam around which the noose is threaded]
John Herod : [impressed] Put 'em both in the contest.
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Doc Wallace : I knew I'd find you here.
Ellen : You know who I am?
Doc Wallace : Of course I do. I brought you into this world. Your father was...
Ellen : [crying] I don't wanna talk about it.
Doc Wallace : You've been here for hours, looking for his grave. He's not here. Herod's men... they smashed the gravestone I made, and then they burned his body 'til there was nothing left. There are good people here. They're just cowards, like me. And they're waiting, hoping... someone like you will come and stop him.
Ellen : I can't. I can't kill him! I had my chance and I was scared. I'm scared of dying.
Doc Wallace : You've been dead since it happened. You're more scared of living. It'd be the same if you keep riding.
[returning her father's marshal badge]
Doc Wallace : I pulled this from the fire. He was the best friend I ever had.
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Ellen : You're pretty fast. Hope I don't have to fight you.
Cort : You have a choice to be here. I don't.
Ellen : He made you do it.
Cort : I was the only one who pulled the trigger.
Ellen : Well, this ain't much of a town for a preacher.
Cort : I wasn't always a preacher.
John Herod : [overhearing them] Cort was an outlaw, like us. Weren't you? In fact, he used to ride with me. Of course, that's all changed now. He's a man of peace. Wouldn't hurt a fly.
[as he puts his arm around her, she removes it in disgust]
John Herod : Easy. There was a time when, uh, you couldn't tell us apart.
Ellen : [as Herod leaves] Is that true?
[getting no answer]
Ellen : Is that true?
Cort : Yes.
Ellen : I should have let you die.
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Kid : You're not quitting, are you? I know this is probably the wrong time, but, um, I like you, and I want you to stay.
Ellen : How can you live like this?
Kid : Live like what? Aren't you even gonna stay for Cort's fight?
Ellen : No, I'm not.
Kid : Wait. It's starting any minute now...
Ellen : I don't care about him. I don't care about you or anybody else in this town. I'm through.
Kid : [watching her ride off] I don't think you heard me right. I said I liked you!
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Ellen : How about a room?
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Ellen : Say that again.
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Ellen : Now, do you have a room available?
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Ellen : Looks like you're having a pretty good time playing with yourself.
