"Shane contains something more than the beauty and the grandeur of the mountains and plains, drenched by the brilliant Western sunshine and the violent, torrential, black-browed rains. It contains a tremendous comprehension of the bitterness and passion of the feuds that existed between the new homesteaders and the cattlemen on the open range. It contains a disturbing revelation of the savagery that prevailed in the hearts of the old gun-fighters, who were simply legal killers under the frontier code. And it also contains a very wonderful understanding of the spirit of a little boy amid all the tensions and excitements and adventures of a frontier home."

"Isabel Glasser - Harley Tucker"

"Lesley Ann Warren - Lula Rogers"

"George Strait - Wyatt "Dusty" Chandler"

"The funny thing about that little white speck on the top of chicken shit. That little white speck is chicken shit too."

"Toby Metcalf - J.W. Tucker"

"Terry McIlvain - Tim Tucker"

"Molly McClure - Grandma Ivy Chandler"

"Rory Calhoun - Ernest Tucker"

"John Doe - Earl Blackstock"

"Lennie Loftin - Hollander"

"Logan Lerman - William Evans"

"Ben Foster - Charlie Prince"

"Peter Fonda - Byron McElroy"

"Alan Tudyk - Doc Potter"

"Kevin Durand - Tucker"

"Russell Crowe - Ben Wade"

"Christian Bale - Dan Evans"

"Railroad's coming, Dan. Your land's worth more with you off it."

"Sometimes a man has to be big enough to see how small he is."

"Before the water touches your land, it resides and flows on mine. And as such, I can do with it as I fuckin' please."

"[after killing Dan] For a one-leg rancher...[grins] he's one tough son of a bitch!"

"Hey. Hey! Not the black hat! The rancher, you dumb-shits! The rancher!"

"I hate posses."

"This town's gonna burn!"

"You ever read the Bible, Dan? I read it one time. I was eight years old. My daddy just got hisself killed over a shot of whiskey, and my mama said, "We're going back East to start over." So she gave me a Bible, sat me down in the train station, told me to read it. She was gonna get our tickets. Well, I did what she said. I read that Bible from cover to cover. It took me three days. She never came back."

"Now, you see, Dan... generally, pretty much everyone wants to live."

"You do one good deed for somebody... I imagine it's habit-forming. Something decent. See that grateful look in their eyes, imagine it makes you feel like Christ Hisself."

"Now, I always liked you, Byron. But you never knew when to shut up. Even bad men love their mamas."

"When you think about it, which I have been lately, is they weren't paying me to walk away. They were paying me so they could walk away."

"Your conscience is sensitive, Dan. I don't think it's my favorite part of you."

"It's man's nature to take what he wants, Dan. That's how we're born."

"Well, Tommy... it seems that there was a Pinkerton... inside that coach that wasn't quite dead yet. Now, I know Charlie told you, because... we done got but a few rules in this outfit. And this is what happens when you put us all at risk."

"Well, would you look at all this? Y'all spared no expense this time, Byron. I gotta say, though, it's probably cheaper just to let me rob the damn thing."

"It's too bad the doctors at Essex saved so much of my leg. I read that the pension act pays by the pound now."

"I ain't never been no hero, Wade. The only battle I seen, we was in retreat. My foot got shot off by one of my own men. You try telling that story to your boy. See how he looks at you then."

"[to Alice] If I don't go, we got to pack up and leave, and God knows where, without a prayer, dirt-poor. Now I'm tired, Alice. I am tired of watching my boys go hungry. I'm tired of the way that they look at me. I'm tired of the way that you don't. I've been standing on one leg for three damn years, waiting for God to do me a favor. And He ain't listening."

"Johnny Whitworth - Tommy Darden"

"Vinessa Shaw - Emmy"

"Dallas Roberts - Grayson Butterfield"