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Back to the Future Part 3

Marty McFly: Is there a back way out of here?
Bartender: Sure.
Marty McFly: Where is it?
Bartender: Out the back.

Doc: You're not thinking fourth dimensionally, Marty!

[Doc Brown and Marty are hijacking a train.]
Doc: Reach!
Engineer: Is this a holdup?
Doc: It's a science experiment!

Doc: The future is whatever you make it, so make it a good one.

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. But it's good to see you anyway.

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: Let's settle this now!
Gang Member: Uh Buford Marshall's got our guns.
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: Like I said we'll finish this tomorrow.

[Final words]
Marty McFly: Where you going now? Back to the future?
Doc: Nope. Already been there.

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.
Doc: Unbelievable.

Marty McFly: You're Mad Dog Tannen!
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: Mad Dog?? I hate that name.

Marty McFly: Why do we have to cut these things so damn close?

2nd Gang Member: Hey, get a gander at them moccasins! What kinda skins is that?
Gang Member: "Ni-kay?" What is that, some kinda Injun talk or something?

[Reading his own gravestone]
Doc: "Shot in the back by Buford Tannen, over a matter of eighty dollars." What kind of future do you call that?!

Marty McFly: Great Scott!
Doc: I know, this is heavy.

Marty McFly: I can't believe I left you back there, Doc. I was so stupid!
Doc: There are plenty of worse places to be than the Old West. I could have 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.
Gang Member: 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!
Gang Member: It's still early, boss. What's your hurry?
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: I'm hungry.

Marty McFly: I'm not really up for this, so I'm gonna have to forfeit!
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: Forfeit?! FORFEIT?! ... What's that mean?
Gang Member: 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!

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 reshoe him!
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: I done shot that horse!

Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: Nobody calls me "Mad Dog," especially not some duded-up, egg-sucking gutter trash!

Marty McFly: Maybe it was a mistake, Doc. There could have been another Emmett Brown back in 1885. Did you ever have any relatives back then, a grandfather or something?
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, Tannen, 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 the one.
Marty McFly: Just 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: If everybody's got one of these auto-whatsits, doesn't anybody walk or run anymore?
Doc: Of course we run. But for recreation. For fun.
Saloon Old Timer: 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 you're just too damn yellow! I guess it'll just have to be you're 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 guts?

Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: You know what I think?! I think you ain't nothing but a gutless yellow turd!

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?

[In the library]
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 #1: 'Cause if you don't go out there-

Gun Salesman: Where'd you learn to shoot like that?!
Marty McFly: 7-11