"[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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"This town's gonna burn!"

"I hate posses."

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

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

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

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

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

"Christian Bale - Dan Evans"

"Russell Crowe - Ben Wade"

"Kevin Durand - Tucker"

"Alan Tudyk - Doc Potter"

"Peter Fonda - Byron McElroy"

"Ben Foster - Charlie Prince"

"Logan Lerman - William Evans"

"Lennie Loftin - Hollander"

"Gretchen Mol - Alice Evans"

"Benjamin Petry - Mark Evans"

"Luce Rains - Marshal Weathers"

"Luke Wilson - Zeke"

"Dallas Roberts - Grayson Butterfield"

"Vinessa Shaw - Emmy"

"Johnny Whitworth - Tommy Darden"

"David Paymer - Leo Devoe"

"Martin Ferrero - Tommy Carlo"

"Miguel Sandoval - Mr. Escobar"

"Jon Gries - Ronnie Wingate"

"Don't worry. I'm not going to say anything more than I have to, if that."

"Renee Props - Nicki"

"Jacob Vargas - Yayo Portillo"

"Bobby Slayton - Dick Allen"

"Linda Hart - Fay Devoe"

"I don't think the producer has to do much, outside of maybe knowing a writer."

"Listen, Touch of Evils playing near my hotel. You wanna go check it out, watch Charlton Heston play a Mexican?"

"Look at me, Leo. I wouldn't think you're that dumb, leave over three hundred grand in the closet, underneath the extra blanket, but I guess you are."

"You know, Welles didn't even wanna do that one. Some studio made him do it. He owed 'em one and all his own movies lost money. But, hey, sometimes that's when you do your best work, you got a gun to your head."

"Rough business, this movie business. I may have to go back to loan sharking for a rest."

"Hey, Bear, look at me. Tell your boss I don't ever want to see him again. He made a deal with Harry and a deal's a deal."

"I mean I could see myself in movies Robert De Niro had been in. Or I could maybe do an Al Pacino movie, play a hard-on. But I couldn't see myself in ones, like say the one where the three guys get stuck with a baby. They don't know how to take care of it and you see these big grown-up assholes acting cute."