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Val Kilmer, Bill Paxton, Sam Elliott, and Kurt Russell in Tombstone (1993)

Powers Boothe: Curly Bill Brocius

Tombstone

Powers Boothe credited as playing...

Curly Bill Brocius

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Quotes7

  • Curly Bill: [takes a bill with Wyatt's signature from a customer and throws it on the faro table] Wyatt Earp, huh? I heard of you.
  • Ike Clanton: Listen, Mr. Kansas Law Dog. Law don't go around here. Savvy?
  • Wyatt Earp: I'm retired.
  • Curly Bill: Good. That's real good.
  • Ike Clanton: Yeah, that's good, Mr. Law Dog, 'cause law just don't go around here.
  • Wyatt Earp: I heard you the first time.
  • [flips a card]
  • Wyatt Earp: Winner to the King, five hundred dollars.
  • Curly Bill: Shut up, Ike.
  • Johnny Ringo: [Ringo steps up to Doc] And you must be Doc Holliday.
  • Doc Holliday: That's the rumor.
  • Johnny Ringo: You retired too?
  • Doc Holliday: Not me. I'm in my prime.
  • Johnny Ringo: Yeah, you look it.
  • Doc Holliday: 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?
  • Kate: You don't even know him.
  • Doc Holliday: 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.
  • Wyatt Earp: [to Ringo] He's drunk.
  • Doc Holliday: In vino veritas.
  • ["In wine is truth" meaning: "When I'm drinking, I speak my mind"]
  • Johnny Ringo: Age quod agis.
  • ["Do what you do" meaning: "Do what you do best"]
  • Doc Holliday: Credat Judaeus apella, non ego.
  • ["The Jew Apella may believe it, not I" meaning: "I don't believe drinking is what I do best."]
  • Johnny Ringo: [pats his gun] Eventus stultorum magister.
  • ["Events are the teachers of fools" meaning: "Fools have to learn by experience"]
  • Doc Holliday: [gives a Cheshire cat smile] In pace requiescat.
  • ["Rest in peace" meaning: "It's your funeral!"]
  • Tombstone Marshal Fred White: Come on boys. We don't want any trouble in here. Not in any language.
  • Doc Holliday: Evidently Mr. Ringo's an educated man. Now I really hate him.
  • Curly Bill: Hey Johnny, what did that Mexican mean by a sick horse is going to get us?
  • Johnny Ringo: He was quoting the Bible, Revelations. "Behold the pale horse". The man who "sat on him was Death... and Hell followed with him".
  • Wyatt Earp: I just want you to know it's over between us.
  • Curly Bill: Well... bye.
  • Johnny Ringo: Smell that, Bill? Smells like someone died.
  • [while watching a play in which Faust sells his soul to the Devil]
  • Curly Bill: You know what I'd do? I'd take that deal 'n' crawfish, then drill that ol' Devil in the ass. What about you Juanito, what would you do?
  • Johnny Ringo: I already did it.
  • Mexican Groom: [to the Cowboys, who have just shot him in the knee] You go hell!
  • Curly Bill: You first.
  • [shoots]
  • Curly Bill: [after a vicious gunfight with the Mexican police] Looks like we win.
  • Curly Bill: I'm only funnin'.

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