"Mike, the whole world is a circus if you look at it the right way. Every time you pick up a handful of dust, and see not the dust, but a mystery, a marvel, there in your hand, every time you stop and think, "I'm alive, and being alive is fantastic!" Every time such a thing happens, Mike, you are part of the Circus of Dr. Lao."

"My dear lady, the role of skeptic becomes you not. There are things in the world not even the experience of a lifetime spent in Abalone could conceive of."

"You worry too much. You worry about how I brought my circus to Abalone with wagons. You worry about the future of your town. Or, if the sun will rise a year from today. The answer is to such matters, remain closed behind a curtain. Then, time says, presto! And out they come."

"Now, Mr. Cunningham, do you suppose this garrulous intruder may be a... a swindler, perhaps, an assassin, a charlatan plotting some curious disaster for your town? Such characters exist, but they are secretive rather than mysterious. I, sir, am a major mystery."

"Whatever men do not understand they find unconvincing."

"Every time you pick up a grain of sand you hold a universe in the palm of your hand."

"Mark Harmon -"

"- Lou Earp"

"- Virginia Earp"

"- Urilla Sutherland"

"- Francis O'Rourke"

"Gabriel Folse -"

"Rex Lins -"

"- Mrs. Sutherland"

"- Mr. Sutherland"

"as Bessie Earp"

"- Allie Earp"

"John Doe (musician) -"

"Wyatt Earp was a wonderful officer. He was game to the last ditch and apparently afraid of nothing. The cowmen all respected him and seemed to recognize his superiority and authority at such times as he had to use it. -Jimmy Cairns"

"[Wyatt] Earp is a man who never smiled or laughed. He was the most fearless man I ever saw. . . . He is an honest man. All officers here who were associated with him declare that he is honest, and would have decided according to his belief in the face of an arsenal. -Dick Cogdell"

"Wyatt Earp is one of the few men I personally knew in the West in the early days, whom I regarded as absolutely destitute of physical fear. I have often remarked, and I am not alone in my conclustions, that what goes for courage in a man is generally the fear of what others will think of him-- in other words, personal bravery is largely made up of self-respect, egotism, and an apprehension of the opinions of others. Wyatt Earp's daring and apparent recklessness in time of danger is wholly characteristic; personal fear doesn't enter into the equation, and when everything is said and done, I believe he values his own opinion of himself more than that of others, and it is his own good report that he seeks to preserve. . . . He never at any time in his career resorted to the pistol excepting in cases where such a course was absolutely necessary. Wyatt could scrap with his fists, and had often taken all the fight out of bad men, as they were called, with no other weapons than those provided by nature. -Bat Masterson"

"There is no hope,my friend. There is only what we do."

"Remember this, all of you. Nothing counts so much as blood. The rest are just strangers."

"Fast is fine but accuracy is final. You must learn to be slow in a hurry"

"In a gun fight... You need to take your time in a hurry"

"We had no YMCA's. [To biographer Stuart Lake, when asked late in life why he'd spent so much time in saloons.]"

"Doc [Holliday] was a dentist whom necessity had made a gambler; a gentleman whom disease had made a frontier vagabond; a philosopher whom life had made a caustic wit; a long lean ash-blond fellow nearly dead with consumption, and at the same time the most skillful gambler and the nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a gun that I ever knew."

"I did not intend to fight unless it became necessary in self defense, and in the performance of official duty. When Billy Clanton and Frank McLowry drew their pistolsl I knew it was a fight for life, and I drew and fired in defense of my own life and the lives of my brothers and Doc Holliday."

"You damned dirty cur thief, you have been threatening our lives, and I know it. I think I should be justified shooting you down any place I should meet you, but if you are anxious to make a fight, I will go anywhere on earth to make a fight with you, even over to the San Simon among your own crowd."

"I was tired of being threatened by Ike Clanton and his gang. I believed from what they had said to others and to me, and from their movements, that they intended to assassinate me the first chance they had, and I thought if I had to fight for my life against them, I had better make them face me in an open fight."

"I am a friend of Doc Holliday, because when I was city marshal of Dodge City, Kansas, he came to my rescue and saved my life, when I was surrounded by desperados."

"I think you came here to make a fight with me, and if you did, you can have one here right now."

"Mind me now, Mannen, put up those guns and go on home."

"The fight has now commenced, go to fighting or get away!"

"I won't be arrested today. You threw us, Johnny."

"I tried to stand up and fly straight, but it wasn't easy with that sumbitch Reagan in the White House. I don't know. They say he's a decent man, so maybe his advisors are confused."

"Patrick McAreavy as Whitetail Ferguson"

"M. Emmet Walsh as Machine Shop Ear-Bender"

"Charles "Lew" Smith as Whitey (convenience store clerk)"

"Henry M. Kendrick as Older FBI Agent"

"Warren Keith as Younger FBI Agent"

"Lynne Dumin Kitei as Florence Arizona"

"T.J. Kuhn as Nathan Jr."

"Randall "Tex" Cobb as Leonard Smalls (Lone Biker of the Apocalypse)"

"Frances McDormand as Dot"

"Sam McMurray as Glen"

"William Forsythe as Evelle Snoats"

"John Goodman as Gale Snoats"

"Trey Wilson as Nathan Arizona, Sr."

"Holly Hunter as Edwina "Ed" McDunnough"