Don Durant: Johnny Ringo

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  William 'Cully' Charles Jr., Deputy : Say, Johnny, how about a little fishin' today?

  Johnny Ringo : Not today - maybe tomorrow.

  William 'Cully' Charles Jr., Deputy : Maybe tomorrow, huh? You've been sayin' that for two weeks now... Can't get Laura and Case off your mind, can you?

  Johnny Ringo : You know, Cully, when I first came to Velardi, I had nothing, no one. They filled an emptiness I'd been carrying around in me most of my life.

  William 'Cully' Charles Jr., Deputy : You've got a lot of friends, Johnny - the whole town.

  Johnny Ringo : No... a friend is something you wear close to you. To these people I'm just a badge - someone they can tip their hats to and say, "Good morning, Sheriff," but that's all.

• [Johnny has been seriously wounded] 

  Johnny Ringo : Brogger - got to get Brogger!

  William 'Cully' Charles Jr., Deputy : Brogger? Johnny, what's this all about?

  Doc Bardell : Don't talk to him now. I gotta get that lead out of his chest!

  [Doc Bardell starts to operate on Johnny] 

  Johnny Ringo : Laura! Laura!

• Annie Blanchard : You said the Brogger brothers - are they anything like the Reno brothers?

  Johnny Ringo : The Renos were men. They wouldn't leave a man to bleed to death like the Brogger's left me.

• Johnny Ringo : Kill or be killed, live or die... a man can't lose his own shadow - you can't kill it without killing yourself.

• Ed Blanchard : Where will you go, Mr. Ringo?

  Johnny Ringo : Nowhere and everywhere.

• Johnny Ringo : Hey, that shotgun's pretty heavy for you to be totin' around isn't it?

  Old Sam Beckman : Oh, I'm a rabbit hunter. That's my business - rabbits.

  Bartender : Don't let Old Sam sponge you dry, Mister. That's the only business he's in.

• Old Sam Beckman : Johnny, I got a little shack not far from here. You can stay there with me.

  Johnny Ringo : No. No, Sam, I'm like a disease. You get too close to me and it might prove fatal.

• [last lines] 

  [When Brogger and his gunslingers stalk the seriously wounded Ringo, the townspeople attack the gang, killing the it's leader] 

  Johnny Ringo : Cully, who fired that shot?

  William 'Cully' Charles Jr., Deputy : The town did, Johnny. You got a a lot of friends.