The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (TV Series)

Doc Holliday Faces Death (1961)

Douglas Fowley: Doc Holliday

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Quotes 

• Dr. Goodfellow : You have to slow down, Holliday.

  Doc Holliday : I'll be alright in the mornin'

  Dr. Goodfellow : No, you won't be alright in the morning. You've got to have at least two weeks of complete rest. And I want you to stop drinking immediately.

  Doc Holliday : Why don't you just have me buried?

  Dr. Goodfellow : Never mind the sarcasm.

  Doc Holliday : I still plan to live - until I die.

• Hogan : They're payin' up, Doc, word got around good.

  Doc Holliday : I knew it would. How much this time, Hogan?

  Hogan : About fifteen hundred. You count it.

  Doc Holliday : Man is a foolish animal, Hogan He exaggerates the value of his own life. All the gamblers who owe me, put together, aren't worth fifteen hundred dollars. Would you put up fifteen hundred to help them?

  Hogan : I ain't the good Lord, Doc. I wouldn't know.

  Doc Holliday : That's the best proof there is a Lord. His divine tolerance. He allows men free will to go to the devil as they choose.

• Doc Holliday : According to the law, according to the law. What does the law care about you? I've seen you risk your life at least fifty times, arresting hoodlums when you should have shot 'em. You know where you are? You're in Tombstone, Arizona. You're surrounded by a gang of hoodlums you haven't even made a dent in, and a crooked sheriff! Don't preach to me about the law. When Sheriff Behan is ready to have you murdered some night, the law won't even give you a decent burial.

  Wyatt Earp : Well, that may be true. But I don't need you to make things worse than they already are. I thought that you might have learned something.

  Doc Holliday : Learned what?

  Wyatt Earp : An officer either believes in the law, or he turns in his star.

  Doc Holliday : I've learned that

  [tosses his deputy badge on the table] 

  Doc Holliday : . You know, Wyatt, you should have been a judge back east somewhere. You don't belong out here.

  Wyatt Earp : You really want to quit?

  Doc Holliday : Yes, I do.

  Wyatt Earp : We've been friends a long time.

  Doc Holliday : Friends?

  [laughs bitterly] 

  Doc Holliday : Your moral rectitude was amusing. And I admire courage. But I've learned yours is a false courage, and I'd be a bigger fool if I were to help you walk into an open grave.

  Wyatt Earp : Doc, you're a sick man, otherwise you wouldn't pick a fight. You're just not yourself.

  Doc Holliday : I am myself. But from now on, you and I are strangers.