Quick Draw Quotes

You don't just have to see superhero movies. Ultimately, those movies are westerns - superheroes are good guys fighting bad guys in a landscape. In westerns, that divide couldn't be any more clear, but the only superpower you have is that you're a quicker shot than the other guy.

Shooting at a man who is returning the compliment means going into action with the greatest speed of which a man's muscles are capable, but mentally unflustered by an urge to hurry or the need for complicated nervous and muscular actions which trick shooting involves.

Are you going to pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?

If you're a gunfighter, you like to die in the street.

I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.

I knew, at a very young age, that I was supposed to be a gunfighter.

I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most.

I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.

To me, the magic of photography, per se, is that you can capture an instant of a second that couldn't exist before and couldn't exist after. It's almost like a cowboy that draws his gun. You draw a second before or after, you miss and you're dead - not them. To me, photography's always like that.