- You reprimand me for making judgments with a gun barrel poked in my face, but it's all right for you to judge me on hearsay.
- But the hearsay fits.
9 seconds sound clip from the The Shootist movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:08:22.982 in the DVD version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- I'm going to send Reverend Saunders to see you tomorrow.
- Maybe it'll make it easier for you.
- No.
- I'm tired of people pawing over my death, for this reason or that or for any reason.
- I suppose that's true of your soul, too.
- My soul is what I've already made of it.
- Maybe you just like being a gunman. Oh, I suppose you prefer the word shootist.
- I don't think of myself as either.
- Oh, no. You're some godlike creature of infinite knowledge, aren't you?
- I'm a dying man scared of the dark.
[...]