- Vienna: [Spoken to Johnny Guitar, with a certain scornful bitterness] A man can lie, steal... and even kill. But as long as he hangs on to his pride, he's still a man. All a woman has to do is slip - once. And she's a "tramp!" Must be a great comfort to you to be a man.
- Johnny: How many men have you forgotten?
- Vienna: As many women as you've remembered.
- Johnny: Don't go away.
- Vienna: I haven't moved.
- Johnny: Tell me something nice.
- Vienna: Sure, what do you want to hear?
- Johnny: Lie to me. Tell me all these years you've waited. Tell me.
- Vienna: [without feeling] All those years I've waited.
- Johnny: Tell me you'd a-died if I hadn't come back.
- Vienna: [without feeling] I woulda died if you hadn't come back.
- Johnny: Tell me you still love me like I love you.
- Vienna: [without feeling] I still love you like you love me.
- Johnny: [bitterly] Thanks. Thanks a lot.
- Vienna: Down there I sell whiskey and cards. All you can buy up these stairs is a bullet in the head. Now which do you want?
- Vienna: Sam, light a lamp and hang it outside.
- Sam: [Reluctant, since a fierce storm is blowing outside] Nobody'll be in in this weather.
- Vienna: And if they do, how can they find the place? Just hang a lamp!
- Sam: [Meekly, to the two men in the kitchen] Never seen a woman who was more of a man. She thinks like one, acts like one, and sometimes makes me feel like I'm not.
- Vienna: [Referring to her long-ago love for Johnny Guitar] When a fire burns itself out, all you have left is ashes.
- Johnny: There's nothin' like a good smoke and a cuppa' coffee. You know, some men got the craving for gold and silver. Others need lotsa' land, with herds of cattle. And then there's those that got the weakness for whiskey, and for women. When you boil it all down, what does a man really need? Just a smoke and a cup of coffee.
- Marshal Williams: And who are you?
- Johnny: The name, sir, is Johnny Guitar.
- Dancin' Kid: [Scornfully] That's no name!
- Johnny: [Cooly] Anybody care to change it?
- Vienna: I hired you to play the guitar, not insult my customers.
- Johnny: Well, if these are your customers, I'm not so sure I'll take this job.
- Vienna: That's pretty strong talk for a man who doesn't wear a gun.
- Dancin' Kid: I like you, Guitar Man. How'd you like to work for me?
- Johnny: I wouldn't.
- Dancin' Kid: Now all of a sudden I don't like you.
- Johnny: Now that makes me real sad.
- Vienna: If you remember, McIvers gave me 24 hours to close. I drew out my own money, paid off my boys... and I'm closed. You can't buy a drink or turn a card. I'm sitting here in my own house, minding my own business, playing my own piano. I don't think you can make a crime out of that.
- Old Tom: [dying words] Look... everybody's looking at me. It's the first time I ever felt important.
- Emma: [Passionately addressing the members of the posse] You heard her tell how they're gonna' run the railroad through here, bringin' thousands of new people from the east. Farmers! Dirt farmers! Squatters! They'll push us out. Is that what you're waitin' for? You're actin' like she's some fine lady, and doin' nothin' makes all of you fine gentlemen. Well, she ain't, and you're not! So you better wake up. Or you're gonna' find you and your women and your kids squeezed between barbed wire and fence posts. Is that what you're waitin' for? Well, I'm not!
- Old Tom: That's a lot of man you're carryin' in those boots, stranger! You know, there's something about a tall man makes people sit up and take notice.
- Dancin' Kid: Bart, you don't drink, you don't smoke, you're mean to horses. What do you like?
- Bart: Me! I like me! And I'm takin' good care of me!
- Mr. Andrews: [Dining privately with Vienna in her upstairs room] Tell me, why did you pick this spot to build? How could you possibly know that the railroad was coming this way?
- Vienna: Some time ago I ran into your surveyor and... we exchanged confidences. When the railroad comes through here, how much do you think this property will be worth?
- Mr. Andrews: What's Albuquerque worth?
- Vienna: How would you like to share in it? I'll need all the help I can get.
- Mr. Andrews: I couldn't help you. I'm not very handy with a gun.
- Vienna: I'm offering you an opportunity to get rich!
- Mr. Andrews: An opportunity to get killed would be more accurate.
- Johnny: [Mining crews are blasting up in the nearby hills, making the roads impassable] They're closing the pass. If you're thinking of running, it's a little late. I've got a hunch the posse will be droppin' in on ya' before night. Same people who paid you a visit yesterday, only they won't be the same. A posse isn't people. I've ridden with 'em, and I've ridden against 'em. A posse is an animal that moves like one and thinks like one.
- Vienna: [Dismissively] They're men with itchy fingers and a coil of rope around their saddle horns, lookin' for somebody to hang. And after riding a few hours they don't care much WHO they hang. You haven't told me a thing I don't know.
- Dancin' Kid: How did it feel with that rope around your neck, Vienna?
- Vienna: [Sarcastically] Try it sometime.
- Johnny: What's eating the fancy man?
- Vienna: I don't know. What's your trouble, Kid?
- Dancin' Kid: I'm in no trouble, he is. Fooling with a strange woman can bring a man a lot of grief.
- Johnny: [to Vienna] Are you a strange woman?
- Vienna: Only to strangers.
- Vienna: Sit down, Johnny. We've both done a lot of living. Our problem now is how to do a little more.
- Dancin' Kid: I didn't get your name stranger.
- Johnny: Guitar. Johnny Guitar.
- Dancin' Kid: You call that a name?
- Johnny: Care to try and change it?
- Dancin' Kid: Maybe you're right, Bart. This dust and sand is bad for Corey's lungs. How'd you like to come home with me, Corey?
- Corey: Where's your home?
- Dancin' Kid: New York.
- Bart: New York? I been there. Stinks of fish!
- [laughs rudely]
- Dancin' Kid: And where you come from don't stink... much.
- Marshal Williams: [the posse has come to Vienna's, demanding the whereabouts of the Dancin' Kid's gang] We came for the Kid and his bunch.
- Vienna: [Calmly sitting and playing the piano] That's what you said yesterday.
- Marshal Williams: We came for you too, Vienna.
- Vienna: [Still playing the piano, unperturbed] Why? I had nothing to do with robbing the bank. Every man here knows that. I don't have to hold up banks. All I have to do is sit here and wait for the railroad to come through. And that is my intention.
- Dancin' Kid: [Seeing, for the first time, Johnny Guitar wearing a gun, and not realizing who he really is] Well, look at Mr. Guitar! All dressed up and looking mighty dangerous.
- Johnny: What did you want to tell me?
- Dancin' Kid: [Mockingly, and completely unaware that Johnny Guitar is actually an extremely capable gunfighter] Oh, I'm too scared, now that you've gotta' gun.
- Vienna: You better lay off him, Kid.
- Dancin' Kid: I wouldn't hurt him.
- Vienna: I wasn't thinking of *you* hurting *him.*
- Dancin' Kid: Oh, you mean he might shoot himself in the leg, trying to draw?
- [chuckles rudely]
- Vienna: No... but if I were you, I wouldn't fool around with Johnny Logan.
- Dancin' Kid: [Stunned] Are you... Johnny Logan?
- Johnny: That's the name, friend.
- Vienna: The railroad's sending in people by tens, twenties, hundreds, and thousands! You can't keep them all out! Tell them, Mr. Andrews!
- Mr. Andrews: I think you put it rather well.
- John McIvers: You're not buildin' no depot here.
- Mr. Andrews: That's for Vienna to decide.
- Vienna: [Brief pause] Vienna decided!
- Dancin' Kid: Please to meet you Mr. Logan
- Johnny: I never shake hands with a left-handed draw
- Dancin' Kid: Smart thought
- Johnny: That's how I keep alive
- Mr. Andrews: I wish you luck, Vienna, for whatever it's worth.
- Vienna: Thanks, Mr Andrews, but I'm not trusting to luck. A good gunfighter doesn't depend on four-leaf clovers.
- Marshal Williams: We got enough trouble, Vienna. Don't you give us none.
- Vienna: The only trouble we have here is what you've brought in.
- Emma: I wouldn't spit on him. Oh, he was always eyeing me. I never told my poor brother because Len would have killed him. That's why he held up the stage and killed my brother, because now he thinks he can get me. That's why.
- Vienna: You've got it a little twisted, haven't you, Emma? Now you think you can get him.
- Emma: She's crazy.
- Vienna: You want the Kid, and you're so ashamed of it, you want him dead!
- Emma: You don't hear so good. We don't want you here.
- Vienna: You don't own the earth! Not this part of it.
- John McIvers: You stay, and you'll keep only enough of it to bury you in.
- Vienna: I intend to be buried here - in the 20th century.
- John McIvers: How come you don't go armed?
- Johnny: Because I'm not the fastest draw west of the Pecos.
- Vienna: If you're smart, you'll ride out of here and keep on riding and you won't come back.
- Dancin' Kid: That's what I should do; but, I never do what I should.
- Vienna: Well, it's your funeral.
- Dancin' Kid: Don't bury me, yet.
- Turkey Ralston: If you're going to stay here, you're going to need somebody to sort of look after you. So, I'm staying with you.
- Vienna: If you look after me, who's going to look after you?
- Turkey Ralston: You talk like I was a boy. I'm a man.
- Vienna: Every man's entitled to be a boy for a little while.
- Dancin' Kid: We stay around here, we'll wind up hanging. I'd hate to be run out for something we didn't do. So let's do something, something they can hang us for. Well, that's only justice, ain't it?
- Turkey Ralston: Sounds like justice to me.