Patrick Swayze credited as playing...
James Dalton
- Dalton: All you have to do is follow three simple rules. One, never underestimate your opponent. Expect the unexpected. Two, take it outside. Never start anything inside the bar unless it's absolutely necessary. And three, be nice.
- Emmett: It ain't the money ya understand, but if I don't charge ya somethin' the Presbyterians around here are likely to pray for my ruination. How does a hundred dollars a month strike ya?
- Dalton: Fine.
- Emmett: Can ya afford that much?
- Dalton: If it keeps you in the good graces of the church.
- Emmett: Ain't it peculiar how money seems to do that very thing?
- Wade Garrett: What's the matter? Still living in the past, aren't ya? We're a long way from Memphis.
- Dalton: Memphis has nothing to do with it.
- Wade Garrett: BULLSHIT. That dog won't hunt. I can't believe you're still draggin' that shit around with ya. It seems to me, you'd be a little more... philosophical about it. AND CUT IT THE FUCK LOOSE. You know, that fucking cu-... that *girl* never told you she was married. DID SHE? And when a man sticks a gun in yer face, you got two choices; you can die or you can KILL THE MOTHERFUCKER.
- Dalton: People who really want to have a good time won't come to a slaughterhouse. And we've got entirely too many troublemakers here. Too many 40-year-old adolescents, felons, power drinkers and trustees of modern chemistry.
- Doc: Is this the part where you tell me what a great guy your friend is?
- Wade Garrett: Not hardly. This is the part where I tell you I want you for myself.
- Doc: [laughs]
- Dalton: Oh, yo. Whatever he's saying, you can be fairly sure it's a lie.
- Wade Garrett: [giving Dalton a look and her a longer look] Don't bet on it.
- Frank Tilghman: I need the best.
- Dalton: Wade Garrett's the best
- Frank Tilghman: Wade Garrett's getting old.
- Dalton: He's still the best!
- Red Webster: How long are you gonna be in town?
- Dalton: Not very long.
- Red Webster: That's what I said 25 years ago.
- Dalton: Really? What happened?
- Red Webster: I got married to an ugly woman. Don't ever do that. It just takes the energy right out of you. She left me, though. Found somebody even uglier than she was. That's life. Who can explain it?
- Dalton: If somebody gets in your face and calls you a cocksucker, I want you to be nice. Ask him to walk. Be nice. If he won't walk, walk him. But be nice. If you can't walk him, one of the others will help you, and you'll both be nice. I want you to remember that it's a job. It's nothing personal.