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The Shootist Quotes

The Shootist is a TV show that debuted in 1970 . The Shootist ended in 1970.

It features M.J. Frankovich; William Edwin Self as producer, Elmer Bernstein in charge of musical score, and Bruce Surtees as head of cinematography.

The Shootist is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Shootist is 100 minutes long. The Shootist is distributed by Paramount Pictures.

The cast includes: John Wayne as John Bernard Books, Ron Howard as Gillom Rogers, Harry Morgan as Carson City Marshal Walter Thibido, Lauren Bacall as Bond Rogers, James Stewart as Dr. E.W. Hostetler, Richard Boone as Mike Sweeney, Ron Howard as Mrs. Rogers, Hugh O'Brian as Jack Pulford, and Scatman Crothers as Moses Brown.

The Shootist Quotes

Lauren Bacall as Bond Rogers

  • (Lauren Bacall) "Where are you from, Mr. Hickock?"
  • (John Wayne) "Abilene, Texas"
  • (Lauren Bacall) "And what do you do there?"
  • (John Wayne) "United States Marshall"
  • (Lauren Bacall) "That's nice."
  • (John Wayne) "No it isn't."

John Wayne as John Bernard Books

  • (John Wayne) "Friend, you better get another line of work; this one sure don't fit your pistol."
  • (John Wayne) "Bond, I don't believe I ever killed a man that didn't deserve it."
  • (Lauren Bacall) "Surely only the Lord can judge that."
  • (John Wayne) "How much do I owe you, Doc?"
  • (James Stewart) "Books, you're a man after my own heart. Usually that's the last thing they say. Let's see, the office visit and the laudanum -- make it $2.00"
  • (John Wayne) "Would you tell Mrs. Rogers that a tuckered out old man would like a room?"
  • (John Wayne) "Make like that's a nipple."
  • (John Wayne) "Mister, this is my birthday. Gimme the best in the house."
  • (John Wayne) "What about the other one, Mike Sweeney?"
  • (Ron Howard) "Now you watch out for him, Mr. Books. He's mean, and he hates you."
  • (John Wayne) "Well, we'll see if we can't clear that up tomorrow."
  • (John Wayne) "I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."
  • (John Wayne) "Mike Sweeney?"
  • (Richard Boone) "John Bernard Books, now I'm flattered that you remembered me."
  • (John Wayne) "Well, you look just how I remembered the Sweeneys; mean and ugly."
  • (John Wayne) "You told me I was strong as an ox."
  • (James Stewart) "Well, even an ox dies."

Scatman Crothers as Moses Brown

  • (Scatman Crothers) "Mr. Books, you're the most famous man I ever knew, and the second bes' haggler."
  • (John Wayne) "Who's the best?"
  • (Scatman Crothers) "Here I stand."
  • (Scatman Crothers) "$295 -- $296 -- $297 -- $298 --"
  • (John Wayne) "Whoa."
  • (Scatman Crothers) "Two ninety; you mean I can; why Mr. Books, that makes me the bes' haggler."
  • (John Wayne) "Best in the world, Moses."

Harry Morgan as Carson City Marshal Walter Thibido

  • (Harry Morgan) "You wouldn't gun down a police officer."
  • (John Wayne) "What'd stop me? Fear of dying?"
  • (Harry Morgan) "Books, I want you out of town. These are law-abiding people here and I don't want any trouble. I can deputize as many men as I need to see that you leave."
  • (John Wayne) "I'm not going anywhere, Marshal. I'm dying and I intend to die right here."
  • (Harry Morgan) "Really? You're really dyin'?"
  • (John Wayne) "Ask Doc Hostetler."
  • (Harry Morgan) "Hot damn. You know, Books, that's the best news I've had all day. While I was walking over here I was thinking, what if Books decides to kill me? Who will take over as marshal? Will the town council pay my pension to my wife? Damn, that's good news."
  • (Harry Morgan) "Hey, Books; did you hear what happened at the Metropole last night? Faro dealer, Pulford, shot a man clean through the heart at eighty paces. Maybe you should go to the Metropole, let Pulford deal you a game of cards."
  • (Harry Morgan) "How are you feeling? A little more poorly everyday?"
  • (John Wayne) "You have a streak of kindness a mile wide."
  • (Harry Morgan) "That I do."
  • (Harry Morgan) "To put it in a nutshell, you've plum wore us out."
  • (John Wayne) "Put it in a nutshell? You couldn't put it in a barrel without a bottom. You're the longest winded bastard I've ever known."

Ron Howard as Gillom Rogers

  • (Ron Howard) "Mr. Books, How is it you've killed so many men? My spread wasn't much bigger than yours."
  • (John Wayne) "First of all,friend, there's no one up there shooting back at you. Second, I found most men aren't willing, they bat an eye, or draw a breath before they shoot. I won't."
  • (Ron Howard) "Moses says he don't rent out this buggy too often."
  • (Ron Howard) "Doesn't."
  • (Ron Howard) "'Doesn't' -- except for funerals."
  • (Ron Howard) "Bat Masterson told Cobb --"
  • (John Wayne) "Bat Masterson?"
  • (Ron Howard) "Yeah, he said that a man has to have guts, deliberation and a proficiency with fire arms."
  • (John Wayne) "Did he mention that third eye you better have?"
  • (Ron Howard) "Third eye?"
  • (John Wayne) "For that dumbass amateur. There's always some six-fingered bustard that couldn't hit a cow in the tit with a tin cup. That's the one who usually does you in. But Masterson always was full of -- sheep-dip."

Richard Boone as Mike Sweeney

  • (Richard Boone) "I'll tell you, that was for Albert."

James Stewart as Dr. E.W. Hostetler

  • (James Stewart) "Books, every few days I have to tell a man or a woman something I don't want to. I've been practicing medicine for 29 years, and I still don't know how to do it well."
  • (John Wayne) "Why don't you just say it flat out?"
  • (James Stewart) "All right. You have a cancer; advanced. Is that what that fella up in Creed told you?"
  • (John Wayne) "Yeah."
  • (James Stewart) "And you didn't believe him."
  • (John Wayne) "No."
  • (James Stewart) "Do you believe me?"
  • (John Wayne) "Can't you cut it out, Doc?"
  • (James Stewart) "I'd have to gut you like a fish."
  • (John Wayne) "Well, what can you do?"
  • (James Stewart) "There's -- just, uh -- very little I can do. Uh, if -- when the pain gets too bad, I can give you something."
  • (John Wayne) "What you're trying to tell me is that I --"
  • (James Stewart) "Yeah."
  • (John Wayne) "Damn."
  • (James Stewart) "Well if I wanted to go around town unnoticed, I wouldn't carry that around with me."
  • (John Wayne) "Stole it from a whore house in Creed."
  • (James Stewart) "You know, Books; I'm not an especially brave man. But, if I were you and had lived my entire life the way you have, I don't think that the death I just described to you is not the one I would choose."

Hugh O'Brian as Jack Pulford

  • (Pulford confidante) "Pulford, J.B. Books over at Mrs. Rogers' --"
  • (Hugh O'Brian) "is yesterday's news."
  • (Pulford confidante) "Yeah, but I just heard he's dyin'."
  • (Hugh O'Brian) "Dyin'?"
  • (Pulford confidante) "A friend a' mine got it from Marshal Thibido himself. Ol' Books is cashin' in."
  • (Hugh O'Brian) "That's hard news. That's a man I coulda taken."
  • (Gambler) "My ass."
  • (Hugh O'Brian) "You have two ways of leaving this establishment, my friend. Immediately or dead."

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