Quotes from
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Marty McFly: Is there a back way out of here?Bartender: Sure.
Marty McFly: Where is it?
Bartender: Out the back.
Doc: Marty, you're not thinking fourth dimensionally!
[Doc Brown and Marty are hijacking a train]
Doc: Reach!
Engineer: Is this a holdup?
Doc: It's a science experiment!
Doc: It means that your future hasn't been written yet. No one's has. Your future is, whatever you make it. So make it a good one, both of you.
Doc: Clara was one in a million. One in a billion. One in a googolplex!
Doc: Marty, I gave you explicit instructions not to come here but to go directly back to 1985.
Marty McFly: I know, Doc. But I had to come.
Doc: But it's good to see you, Marty.
Doc: We shall proceed as planned, and as soon as we return to 1985, we shall destroy this infernal machine. Traveling through time has become much too painful.
Doc: Marty, you can't go losing your judgment every time someone calls you a name. It's exactly what causes you to get into that accident in the future.
Doc: Marty, we all have to make decisions that affect the course of our lives. You've got to do what you've got to do. And I've got to do what I've got to do.
[at the clock dedication ceremony]
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: Then let's settle it, right now!
Buford's Gang Member #1: Uh, not now, Buford. Marshal's got our guns.
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: Like I said, we'll finish this tomorrow.
Buford's Gang Member #2: Tomorrow, we're robbing the Pine City Stage.
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: What about Monday? Are we doing anything Monday?
Buford's Gang Member #1: Uh, no, Monday would be fine. You can kill him on Monday.
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: I'll be back this way on Monday! We'll settle this then... right there... out in the street... in front of the Palace Saloon!
Marty McFly: Yeah, like when? High noon?
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: Noon? I do my killin' before breakfast! Seven o'clock!
Marty McFly: Eight o'clock. I do my killing after breakfast!
[last lines]
Marty McFly: Where you going now? Back to the future?
Doc: Nope. Already been there.
Young Doc: No wonder this circuit failed. It says "Made in Japan".
Marty McFly: What do you mean, Doc? All the best stuff is made in Japan.
Young Doc: Unbelievable.
Marty McFly: You're Mad Dog Tannen!
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: Mad Dog? I hate that name. I hate it. You hear? 'Cause nobody calls me "Mad Dog", especially not some duded-up, egg-sucking gutter trash.
Marty McFly: Why do we have to cut these things so damn close?
Buford's Gang Member #2: Hey, get a gander at them moccasins! What kinda skins is that?
Buford's Gang Member #1: "Nee-kay"? What is that, some kinda Injun talk or something?
[Reading his own gravestone in 1955]
Young Doc: "Shot in the back by Buford Tannen, over a matter of eighty dollars." What kind of future do you call that?
[Marty and Doc finally say each other's phrases the opposite way]
Marty McFly: Great Scott!
Doc: I know, this is heavy.
[Marty is left-behind back in 1955, with the young Doc of then as his only hope to getting back to the future]
Marty McFly: I'm sorry, Doc. It's all my fault you're stuck back there. I never should have let Biff get to me!
Young Doc: Well, there are plenty worse places to be than the Old West. I could've ended up in the Dark Ages. They probably would have burned me at the stake as a heretic or something.
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: What's your name, dude?
Marty McFly: Uh, Mar-, uh... Eastwood. Clint Eastwood.
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: What kind of stupid name is that?
[At a weapons checkpoint, Strickland holds a shotgun on Tannen]
Marshall Strickland: You can't read the sign, Tannen. I presume you can read this.
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: If you don't show, I'll hunt you and shoot you down like a duck.
Buford's Gang Member #1: It's "dog, " Buford. Shoot him down like a dog.
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: Wake up! Let's go! I got me a runt to kill!
Buford's Gang Member #1: It's still early, boss. What's your hurry?
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: I'm hungry.
Marty McFly: Listen! I'm not feeling up to this today, so I'm gonna have to forfeit!
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: Forfeit? FORFEIT?... What's that mean?
Buford's Gang Member #1: Uh, it means you win without a fight.
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: Without shooting? He can't do that- HEY, YOU CAN'T DO THAT! You know what I think? I think you ain't nothing but a gutless yellow turd! And I'm giving you to the count of ten to come out here, and prove I'm wrong!
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: I hate manure!
Doc: This'll shoot the fleas off a dog's back at five hundred yards, Tannen, and it's pointed straight at your head!
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: You owe me money, blacksmith.
Doc: How do you figure?
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: My horse threw a shoe. Now seeing as you're the one who done the shoe, that makes you responsible.
Doc: Well, since you never paid me for that job, I'd say that makes us even!
Doc: Look, if your horse threw a shoe, bring him back and I'll re-shoe him!
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: I done shot that horse!
Doc: Well, that's your problem, Tannen!
[in a library in 1955]
Marty McFly: Maybe it was a mistake, Doc. Maybe that grave wasn't yours. There could've been another Emmett Brown back in 1885.
Young Doc: No.
Marty McFly: Didn't you have any relatives here back then?
Young Doc: The Browns didn't come to Hill Valley until 1908, and then they were the Von Brauns. My father changed our name during the First World War.
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: Smile, Sheriff, it's a party!
Marshall Strickland: The only party I'll be smilin' at is the one that sees you at the end of a rope.
[Holding baby William]
Marty McFly: So you're my great-grandfather. The first McFly born in America. And you peed on me.
Marty McFly: How many did he have?
Bartender: Just one.
Marty McFly: Just the one?
Bartender: There's a fella who can't hold his liquor.
Doc: Marty, you're going to have to do something about those clothes. You walk around town dressed like that, you're liable to get shot.
Marty McFly: Or hanged.
Doc: What idiot dressed you in that outfit?
Marty McFly: You did.
Doc: And in the future, we don't need horses. We have motorized carriages called automobiles.
Saloon Old Timer #3: If everybody's got one of these auto-whatsits, does anybody walk or run anymore?
Doc: Of course we run. But for recreation. For fun.
Saloon Old Timer #3: Run for fun? What the hell kind of fun is that?
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: Listen up, Eastwood! I intend to shoot somebody today and I'd prefer it to be you. But if you're just too damn yellow, I guess it'll just have to be your blacksmith friend.
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: [arriving at the Palace Saloon] Are you in there, Eastwood? It's eight o'clock, and I'm calling you out!
Marty McFly: [looks at the town clock, then steps towards Buford cautiously at a window] It's not 8:00 yet!
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: It is by my watch! Let's settle this once and for all, runt! Or ain't you got the gumption?
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: You know what I think? I think you ain't nothing but a gutless yellow turd! And I'm giving you to the count of ten to come out here, and prove I'm wrong!
Doc: Howdy Doody time?
Bartender: Emmett! What can I get you? The usual?
Doc: No, Chester, I'm gonna need something a lot stronger than that tonight.
Bartender: Sarsaparilla?
Doc: Whiskey, Chester.
[in the library]
Young Doc: "William McFly and family". Your relatives?
Marty McFly: My great-grandfather's name was William.
[the photo of William looks just like Marty]
Marty McFly: That's him. Good-looking guy.
Marty McFly: I had this horrible nightmare. Dreamed I w-... dreamed I was in a western. And I was being chased by all these Indians... and a bear.
Maggie McFly: Well... you're safe and sound here, now, at the McFly farm.
Marty McFly: McFly farm? Why, you're my, my, my... who are you?
Saloon Old Timer #3: You better face up to it, son, 'Cause if you don't go out there...
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: [continuing to count to ten] Five!
Marty McFly: What? What happens if I don't go out there?
Eyepatch: You're a coward.
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: Six!
Toothless: And you'll be branded a coward for the rest of your days!
Saloon Old Timer #3: Everybody everywhere is gonna say, that Clint Eastwood is the biggest yella-belly in the West!
[Tannen gets stuck, until one his gang holds up his fingers]
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: Seven!
[Marty stays inside while Tannen counts]
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: Eight... Nine... Ten!
[Marty doesn't move, staring out the door angrily]
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: Did you hear me, runt? I said that's ten, you gutless yellow pie-slinger!
Marty McFly: [slipping out of his reverie] He's an asshole! I don't care what Tannen thinks, and I don't care what anybody else thinks either!
Colt Gun Salesman: Where'd you learn to shoot like that?
Marty McFly: 7-11
Doc: Each detonation will be accompanied by a sudden burst of acceleration. Hopefully, we'll hit 88 mph, before the needle gets much past 2000.
Marty McFly: Why, what happens when it hits 2000?
Doc: The whole boiler explodes.
Marty McFly: Perfect!
[in an Outdoors Theatre, in 1955]
Young Doc: All you got to do is drive directly toward that screen accelerating up to 88 miles an hour.
Marty McFly: Wait a minute, Doc. It I go driving straight towards that screen, I'm gonna crash into those Indians.
Young Doc: Marty, you're not thinking fourth dimensionally. You'll soon enough be transferred back into 1885, and those Indians won't even be there.
Young Doc: Well, good luck for both our sakes. You've made a real difference in my life. See you in the future.
Marty McFly: You mean the past?
Young Doc: Exactly.
Clara Clayton: I don't dance very well when my partner has a gun in his hand.
Colt gun salesman: Young man, young man! I'd like you to have this new Colt Peacemaker and gun belt. Free of charge.
Marty McFly: Free?
Colt gun salesman: I want everyone to know that the gun that shot Buford Tannen was a Colt Peacemaker.
Marty McFly: Hey, no problem. Thanks a lot!
Colt gun salesman: Of course, you understand, that if you lose I'm taking it back.
Marty McFly: Thanks again.
Marty McFly: [to Young Doc Brown in 1955] As soon as you get those time circuits fixed and put new tires on that DeLorean, I'm going back to 1885 and I'm bringing you home.
[Marty McFly just found a tombstone with Emmett Brown's name]
Marty McFly: Doc! Doc! Come quick!
Young Doc Brown: What's the matter? You look like you've seen a ghost.
Marty McFly: You're not far off.
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: [to his gang members] Let's go, boys. Let these sissies have their party.
Maggie McFly: I hope you're considering your own future, Mr. Eastwood.
Marty McFly: I think about it all the time.
[1885 - Marty walks into a saloon, dressed in the outfit that Doc Brown gave him in 1955]
Saloon Old-Timer #1: Take a look at what just breezed in the door.
Saloon Old-Timer #2: Why, I didn't know the circus was in town.
Saloon Old Timer #3: Musta gotten that shirt off a dead Chinese.
Bartender: What'll it be, stranger?
Marty McFly: Uh, I'll have, uh, ice water.
[the old-timers laugh]
Saloon Old Timer #3: Ice?
Bartender: Water? You want water, you better go dunk your head in the horse trough out there.
[pulls out a shot glass and pours into it]
Bartender: In here, we pour whiskey.
Doc: [reading a letter his future self wrote] I never knew I could write anything so touching.
Marty McFly: [Doc and Marty use explosives to get in the old Delgado mine, which is near a graveyard] I think you woke up the dead with that blast!
Marty McFly: [holding up a plate that says "Frisbee"] Hey look, Frisbee, far-out.
Maggie McFly: Wonder what he meant by that?
Seamus McFly: It was right in front of him.
[reading the gravestone of Doc's future self]
Marty McFly: "Erected by the wish of his beloved Clara."
[he turns to face Doc, inadvertantly standing on the grave]
Marty McFly: Who the hell is Clara?
Young Doc: Marty, please, DON'T STAND THERE!
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