Gunsmoke (TV Series)

Widow's Mite (1958)

James Arness: Matt Dillon

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• Marshal Matt Dillon : What's bothering you?

  Doc : Oh, nothing, I was just thinking how natural you're beginning to look sitting here on Front Street every day, same chair, fiddling around, trying to make people think you're busy.

  Marshal Matt Dillon : Boy, you're sure starting early this morning.

  Doc : What?

  Marshal Matt Dillon : The same old growl. What's the matter? Is business bad or something? What do you want me to do go out here and shoot someone's toe off so you can amputate their leg and make a big fee?

  Doc : Heavens, no, I wouldn't want you to do anything like that. Matter of fact, I recommend you keep that gun in your holster at all times. With that thing in your hands and your eyes closed the way they are most the time anymore, you're the most dangerous man I ever saw.

  Marshal Matt Dillon : Dangerous? Let me tell you something. You kill more people by accident than I do on purpose.

  Doc : Well, what do you mean by that?

  Marshal Matt Dillon : Yeah, you take their temperature, they're as good as gone.

• Marshal Matt Dillon : [Walks alone on Boot Hill, thinking aloud]  Men die for a lot of reasons. I've even heard of worthy ones. Like a man who's willing to face it for the good that might come after. But he's a different breed than most of this Boot Hill trash. These people died for fool's reasons. A spilled drink, a wrong card. Maybe, worst of all, the bull-headed stubbornness that keeps a man from listening to reason. To die like this is a waste, for nothing's gained by the dying. Matt Dillon, U. S. Marshal.

• Kitty : Oh, you're just suspicious of everybody.

  Marshal Matt Dillon : Maybe that's why I'm still alive.