3:10 to Yuma (2007) - Quotes

A Brother's Grief and Desire for Justice

Walter Boles: Ben Wade gunned down my kid brother in front of me six years ago in Abilene.

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Dodge City: A Place of Contrasts

William Evans: You ever been to Dodge?

Ben Wade: Yes, indeed. Meanest, most beautiful dirty city there ever was. Saloon was just overflowing with cattle drivers, and road agents, prospectors, gunslingers, gamblers, and women. Women who'll do things to you, you'll never forget.

Doc Potter: They'll give you a disease you'll never forget.

Ben Wade: Money in your pocket in Dodge City, you can have everything a man ever wished for. Everything a man comes to need. I got there on my own as a boy not much bigger than you.

Dan Evans: And how many men you killed since then, Wade? How many families you destroyed?

Ben Wade: Quite a few.

Doc Potter: Is it true that you dynamited a wagon full of prospectors in the Western Territories last spring?

Ben Wade: No, that's a lie. It was a train full.

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Confrontation Over Morality and Violence

Ben Wade: Byron's like a song with one note. You ever read another book in your life, Byron, besides the Bible?

Byron McElroy: No need.

Ben Wade: Byron acts pious. Few years ago, when he was under contract to Central, I seen him and a bunch of other Pinks mow down 32 Apache women and children.

Byron McElroy: Renegades... gunning down railroad men and their families. Picking em off the road one by one. Scalping em.

Ben Wade: There was young ones running around crying and screaming. No more than three years old. And his boys shot em all then pushed em into a ditch. Some of them was still crying. But I guess Byron figured that Jesus wouldn't mind. Apparently Jesus don't like the Apache.

Byron McElroy: Keep on talking... all the way to Yuma, right up them steps, to the rope, straight to Hell.

Ben Wade: Day I die, Byron, I'm getting sprung from Hell.

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A Night of Unrest and Consequences

Ben Wade: I suppose it's too much to ask for a little quiet.

Tucker: [singing] The way I figured it is I'd be asleep in my own bed right now if it weren't for you. So if I got to be up, well, then, you're damn well gonna be up with me, too, Ben Wade. They're gonna hang me in the mornin', Before the night is done... Hang me in the mornin'... I'll never see the sun...

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Plans for the Journey to Yuma

Byron McElroy: We're taking you to Contention. Putting you on the 3:10 to Yuma day after tomorrow.

Tucker: You shouldn't have told him that!

Ben Wade: Relax, friend. Now if we get separated, I know where to meet up.

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The Justification of Violence in Conflict

Mark Evans: If my pa wants to, he could shoot you dead. He can shoot a jackrabbit at 50 yards!

Dan Evans: Shooting an animal's a lot different than, uh, shooting a man, son.

Ben Wade: No, it isn't. Not in my opinion. We could ask Byron here. Now, Byron, he's killed dozens of people: Men and women and children, miners, Apache.

Byron McElroy: Not a soul taken didn't deserve what it got.

Ben Wade: Every way of man is right in his own eyes, Byron. The Lord ponders the heart. Proverbs 21.

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The Cost of Justice and Accountability

Grayson Butterfield: Twenty-two robberies. Over four hundred thousand dollars in losses. More in delays. The Southern Pacific will have Ben Wade convicted in a federal court. Hanged in public. An example made. And we will pay to make it happen.

Ben Wade: Y'all notice he didn't mention any of the lives I've taken.

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A Doctor's Unusual Patient Interaction

Byron McElroy: [notices horse anatomy diagrams] What the fuck kind of doctor are you, anyway?

Doc Potter: It's nice to have a conversation with a patient for a change.

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Reflections on Loss and Consequences

Charlie Prince: Here's to the four we lost in battle. And here's to the boss, who... had to say good-bye to Tommy Darden today. And that's too bad.

Ben Wade: Proverbs 13:3. "He that keepeth his mouth, "keepeth his life. He that opens his lips too wide shall bring on his own destruction.

Charlie Prince: Amen.

Ben Wade: Tommy was weak. Tommy was stupid. Tommy is dead.

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Confrontation Between Wade and McElroy

Byron McElroy: If you're gonna kill me, just as soon get to it.

Ben Wade: I ain't gonna kill you. Not like this.

Byron McElroy: Won't change a thing, lettin me live. I'll come for you.

Ben Wade: I'd be disappointed if you didn't.

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Confrontation Between Charlie Prince and Byron McElroy

Charlie Prince: Morning Pinkerton. Name's Charlie Prince. I expect you heard of me.

Byron McElroy: Well, I heard of a balled up whore named Charlie Princess. That you, missy?

Charlie Prince: [shoots Byron] I hate Pinkertons.

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Understanding Through Another's Perspective

William Evans: You gonna hock that?

Dan Evans: Someday, William... you walk in my shoes, you might understand.

William Evans: I ain't ever walking in your shoes.

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Value of Land and Personal Sacrifice

Glen Hollander: Railroad's coming, Dan. Your land's worth more with you off it.

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Acknowledging one's own limitations and humility

Glen Hollander: Sometimes a man has to be big enough to see how small he is.

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Water Rights and Control in Conflict

Glen Hollander: Before the water touches your land, it resides and flows on mine. And as such, I can do with it as I fuckin please.

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Toughness in Unexpected Places

Charlie Prince: [after killing Dan; grins] For a one-leg rancher... he's one tough son of a bitch!

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Miscommunication in a tense situation

Charlie Prince: Hey. Hey! Not the black hat! The rancher, you dumb-shits! The rancher!

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Disdain for Posses

Charlie Prince: I hate posses.

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Impending Destruction in the Town

Charlie Prince: This town's gonna burn!

A Bible and a Mother's Absence

Ben Wade: You ever read the Bible, Dan? I read it one time. I was eight years old. My daddy just got hisself killed over a shot of whiskey, and my mama said, "We're going back East to start over." So she gave me a Bible, sat me down in the train station, told me to read it. She was gonna get our tickets. Well, I did what she said. I read that Bible from cover to cover. It took me three days. She never came back.

The Universal Desire for Life

Ben Wade: Now, you see, Dan... generally, pretty much everyone wants to live.

The Impact of Good Deeds

Ben Wade: You do one good deed for somebody... I imagine it's habit-forming. Something decent. See that grateful look in their eyes, imagine it makes you feel like Christ Hisself.

A Bad Man's Affection for Family

Ben Wade: Now, I always liked you, Byron. But you never knew when to shut up. Even bad men love their mamas.

Conscience and Personal Preferences in Conflict

Ben Wade: Your conscience is sensitive, Dan. I don't think it's my favorite part of you.

The Nature of Human Desire

Ben Wade: It's man's nature to take what he wants, Dan. That's how we're born.

Consequences of Breaking Rules in the Outfit

Ben Wade: Well, Tommy... it seems that there was a Pinkerton... inside that coach that wasn't quite dead yet. Now, I know Charlie told you, because... we done got but a few rules in this outfit. And this is what happens when you put us all at risk.

Ben Wade on the Cost of Security

Ben Wade: Well, would you look at all this? Y'all spared no expense this time, Byron. I gotta say, though, it's probably cheaper just to let me rob the damn thing.

The Burden of a Fallen Hero

Dan Evans: I ain't never been no hero, Wade. The only battle I seen, we was in retreat. My foot got shot off by one of my own men. You try telling that story to your boy. See how he looks at you then.

Frustration and Despair in Hardship

Dan Evans: [to Alice] If I don't go, we got to pack up and leave, and God knows where, without a prayer, dirt-poor. Now I'm tired, Alice. I am tired of watching my boys go hungry. I'm tired of the way that they look at me. I'm tired of the way that you don't. I've been standing on one leg for three damn years, waiting for God to do me a favor. And He ain't listening.