3:10 to Yuma (2007) quotes
Director
James Mangold.
A small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who’s awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher.
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 he looks at you then.
– Dan Evans
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.
– Ben Wade
Sometimes a man has to be big enough to see how small he is.
– Glen Hollander
For a one-leg rancher… he’s one tough son of a bitch.
– Charlie Prince
I ain’t stubborn.
– Dan Evans
Excuse me?
– Ben Wade
You said I was stubborn, for keeping my family on a dying ranch. It’s my son, Mark. The young one. He got tuberculosis when he was two. Doctor said he would die if he didn’t have a dry climate, so…
– Dan Evans
Why are you tellin’ me this?
– Ben Wade
I don’t know. I guess I just… wanted you to know that I ain’t stubborn, is all.
– Dan Evans
So, boys – where we headed?
– Ben Wade
Taking you to the 3:10 to Yuma day after tomorrow.
– Byron McElroy
Shouldn’t have told him that.
– Tucker
Relax, friend. Now if we get separated, I’ll know where to meet up.
– Ben Wade
You know, squeezin’ that watch won’t stop time.
– Ben Wade
I’ve always liked you Byron, but you never know when to shut up. Even bad men love their mommas.
– Ben Wade
William, I want you to give this back to your mother. I want you to tell her that it helped me find what was right.
– Dan Evans
Pa… I can’t. I can’t just leave you.
– William Evans
I’m gonna be a day behind you, William. Unless something happens, and if it does, I need a man at the ranch to run things, protect our family, and I know that you can do that because you’ve become a fine man, William. You’ve become a fine man. You got all the best parts of me. What few there are.
– Dan Evans
And you just remember that your old man walked Ben Wade to that station when nobody else would.
– Dan Evans
They’re going to kill me in the morning… I’ll never see the sun.
– Ben Wade
Remind me never to play poker in this town.
– Ben Wade
Is it true that you dynamited a wagon full of prospectors in the western territories last spring?
– Doc Potter
No, that’s a lie… It was a train full.
– Ben Wade
Ben Wade has a gang and they’re out there tonight, somewhere.
– Alice Evans
If I don’t go, we gotta pack up and leave. Now I’m tired, Alice. I’m 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.
– Dan Evans
Have you ever read a book in your life, Byron, except the bible?
– Ben Wade
No need.
– Byron McElroy
He’s a killer, Daniel.
– Alice Evans
Then someone ought to have the decency to bring him to justice.
– Dan Evans
Don’t do it, Dan. No one will think less of you.
– Alice Evans
No one can think less of me.
– Dan Evans
You say one more word, and I’ll cut you down right here.
– Dan Evans
I like this side of you, Dan.
– Ben Wade