There is no question that Tombstone is one of the best Westerns ever made, and as this list proves, it’s easily the most quotable. If we’re honest here, almost every line in the movie is quotable. While we can’t just reproduce the script here, we can offer many of the lines we love the most. So, without further ado, our list of quotes that make Tombstone the most quotable Western ever.
“I’m your huckleberry”
You know this one had to be on the list. Doc Holliday in Tombstone is arguably Val Kilmer’s best role, and his most famous line has to be when he is facing down Johnny Ringo (Michael Biehn) towards the very end of the movie. It certainly scares Ringo.
Kurt Russell) and his brothers get to the town of Tombstone, Wyatt takes over the faro game at one of the saloons. The man he takes it over for, Johnny Tyler, played wonderfully by Billy Bob Thornton, has a lot to say, but nothing to back it up.
Sam Elliott) is as no-nonsense as his brother, Wyatt, and his reputation as a lawman was just as legendary at the time. Though he joined his brothers in Tombstone to strike it rich, it doesn’t take long before he returns to fighting crime. Wyatt is upset, but Virgil has his reasons.
Val Kilmer had a lot of amazing lines to deliver in one of his best roles, and this one is right up near the top. It happens right at the end of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, when it appears Doc Holliday is out of bullets. As a cowboy takes aim, Doc dares the man to shoot. Of course, that was a bad idea, and the Cowboy should’ve just let things be.
Bill Paxton, is the youngest and most naive Earp brother. Unlike his older brothers, he’s got a more philosophical outlook on life, and, it turns out, death. After he’s fatally shot by the Cowboys, he reminisces with Wyatt about what he believed happened when someone died, but tragically, it’s not how it turns out to be for him.
Val Kilmer’s best characters comes near the beginning of the movie, and he’s playing cards. After being accused of cheating, he takes offense and wonders why his opponent is so upset. All while tickling the ivory handle of one of his pistols. It’s hard to believe Kilmer wasn’t always the first choice for the role of Doc; originally, Willem Dafoe was who the producers wanted.
whole third act of the movie, and it all starts when he lays down his threat to Ike Clanton and the rest of the Cowboys after taking some of them out after they killed Morgan and shot Virgil.
get out of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Wyatt tells him exactly what to do.
Billy Bob Thornton’s best movies, and that’s because the few lines he does have are priceless. Like when we, as an audience, first meet his character and he’s annoyed with literally everything around him, especially the guy smoking next to him.
won an Oscar in his career, it’s his final scene with Kurt Russell, as he lies dying of tuberculosis. It’s masterful.
“Well… bye.”
Powers Boothe plays Curly Bill, the de facto leader of the Cowboys, and when he thinks he’s finally run the Earps out of town, he only has two words for them. Those two words, “Well, bye,” have since become a meme that is useful for so many things. It, like all the rest of the lines on this list, is a true classic.