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Sharon Stone and Gene Hackman in The Quick and the Dead (1995)

Sharon Stone: Ellen

The Quick and the Dead

Sharon Stone credited as playing...

Ellen

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Quotes28

  • Scars: I need a woman.
  • Ellen: You need a bath.
  • Ellen: [female gunslinger walks up behind a preoccupied bartender] How about a room?
  • Horace: Whores next door.
  • Ellen: [carefully sets her cigar down] Say that again.
  • Horace: I said whores next door.
  • Ellen: [kicks the stool out from under him, catches his liquor bottle as he falls, & pours herself a drink] Now, do you have a room available?
  • Horace: Uh, room and bath, yes, ma'am, coming up!
  • Scars: You're purty.
  • Ellen: You're not.
  • Cort: Last night, The Kid. Tonight, Herod. You're a busy woman. Any man in this town you're not interested in?
  • Ellen: Yeah. You.
  • Ellen: Don't you even want to fight back?
  • Cort: Sure. I'd like to kill them all for what they've done. But I won't. Killing people is wrong.
  • Ellen: Some people deserve to die.
  • Ace Hanlon: You wanna play poker with me, little lady?
  • Ellen: Looks like you're having a pretty good time playing with yourself.
  • John Herod: I was married to a beautiful woman. She was unfaithful.
  • Ellen: Where is she now?
  • John Herod: I told you, she was unfaithful.
  • Ellen: In case you forgot, Preacher, I saved your life last night.
  • Cort: No, I think you just stretched it out a bit. I might've even gone to heaven if you'd let me die.
  • Ellen: Sorry.
  • Blind Boy: John Herod owns that house. He gets fifty cents of every dollar in this town.
  • Ellen: What's the town get?
  • Blind Boy: Huh... they gets to live.
  • John Herod: You're not fast enough for me!
  • Ellen: Today I am.
  • Kid: I'm worth $3,000 in four states. Seventy-five offenses and no convictions. My name's Fee but, uh... everyone calls me the Kid.
  • Ellen: Congratulations.
  • John Herod: I could give you more money than you could ever spend.
  • Ellen: I wouldn't feel like I'd earned it.
  • John Herod: [Knowingly] Oh yes, you would.
  • Ellen: Some people deserve to die.
  • Ellen: You stole my life.
  • Ellen: What can you possibly get out of this? What do you want?
  • Kid: All I want is his respect.
  • Ellen: [after Herod accepts the Kid's challenge] You would fight your own son? I'm gonna kill you if I have to ride all the way to Hell to do it.
  • John Herod: Do you have some particular problem with me?
  • Ellen: I'll let you know.
  • John Herod: So, why'd you come here tonight?
  • Ellen: You invited me.
  • John Herod: You could have turned me down.
  • Ellen: I wanted to see what kind of man you are.
  • John Herod: What kind of man am I?
  • John Herod: The kind people hate.
  • Ellen: I'm not trying to be popular. The people in this town, they, uh... they need me. I bring a sense of, uh... order to their lives. Not law, order.
  • Ellen: Like hanging a preacher in the saloon?
  • John Herod: He's no preacher. He's a fraud. If a man is a killer, then that's what he is. There's no dishonor. But don't let that same man suddenly tell me that's not in his blood anymore. That's worse than a liar.
  • Katie: They're calling for you on the street. Are you really gonna do it? What if you get killed?
  • Ellen: Then I won't be around to answer any more of your dumb questions.
  • [last lines]
  • Ellen: [giving her father's marshal badge to Cort] The law has come back to town.
  • John Herod: How do you feel after surviving your first day?
  • Ellen: Same as yesterday.
  • John Herod: No. Your eyes are shining. You passed a test. You feel alive.
  • Ellen: I guess it doesn't excite me as much as it does you.
  • John Herod: You think I do this contest because it's fun? Look at this town. It's full of people who'd kill you for your bootlaces. At least this way, I get to face my enemies. They can't sneak up and shoot me in the back. And of course, I always win.
  • Ellen: Maybe one day your luck will run out.
  • John Herod: I don't win because I'm lucky.

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