Joseph Foster: Sit down, sit down, gentlemen. The furniture's reliable.


--Thomas Mitchell (as Joseph Foster) in Alias Nick Beal

Kid Dabb: [watching Geoff try to land a damaged plane] He's gonna try to land!
Mike: He can't make it.
Les Peters: Not with that tail all smashed up. Not in a million years.
Kid Dabb: Get set for the crash, Mike!
Bonnie Lee: Why doesn't he jump?
Kid Dabb: Why? Why should he? He's made of rubber, he is. He wants to hit the ground to see how high he can bounce!


--Thomas Mitchell (as Kid Dabb) in Only Angels Have Wings

Kid Dabb: Someday I'll get a straight answer from you, and I won't know what to do with it.


--Thomas Mitchell (as Kid Dabb) in Only Angels Have Wings

Kid Dabb: The boat doesn't stop at Santa Maria this trip.
Geoff Carter: Why not?
Kid Dabb: They have no bananas.
Geoff Carter: They have no bananas?
Kid Dabb: Yes, they have no bananas.


--Thomas Mitchell (as Kid Dabb) in Only Angels Have Wings

Kid Dabb: The only thing I can tell you about him, he's a good guy for gals to stay away from.


--Thomas Mitchell (as Kid Dabb) in Only Angels Have Wings

Uncle Billy: After all, Potter, some people like George HAD to stay at home. Not every heel was in Germany and Japan.


--Thomas Mitchell (as Uncle Billy Bailey) in It's a Wonderful Life

Doc Holliday: I need a little money and I thought maybe you'd like to come in with me.
[Pat laughs]
Doc Holliday: What's the matter?
Pat Garrett: I'll let you have the money, but if the deal's anything like that last one of yours, you better not tell me about it.
Doc Holliday: Why not?
[Pat pulls back his vest and reveals his Sheriff's badge]
Doc Holliday: Where'd you get that?
Pat Garrett: Oh, they stuck it on me about two weeks ago.
Doc Holliday: You're the last man I thought would be so easily satisfied.
Pat Garrett: Well, l... l... , a man's gotta settle down sometime.


--Thomas Mitchell (as Pat Garrett) in The Outlaw

DeLaage: My dear doctor, I'm ready to give my wife and my friends anything I own in the world except my sense of honor and duty.
Dr. Kersaint: A sense of honor in the South Seas is about as useful and often as silly as a silk hat in a hurricane.


--Thomas Mitchell (as Dr. Kersaint) in The Hurricane

[first lines]
Townsman: Doc Holliday just got off the stagecoach! Do you want me and some of the boys to come along with you?
Pat Garrett: Why do ask that?
Townsman: Well, I certainly wouldn't want to fool around with him if I were alone.
Pat Garrett: I don't blame you, but I ain't gonna make no trouble for Doc Holliday. He's my best friend!


--Thomas Mitchell (as Pat Garrett) in The Outlaw

[Pat and Doc rescue Rio, whom Billy has left bound, gagged and strung up by wrists within sight of a desert waterhole]
Doc Holliday: You know, I think he's in love with you.
Rio: What are you talking about?
Doc Holliday: The crazier a man is for a woman, the crazier he thinks and the crazier he acts.
Rio: He's only crazy about one thing - himself.
Pat Garrett: Hey, that gives me a thought. Maybe we'll get Mr. Billy after all.
Rio: How?
Pat Garrett: Like you said - if he's crazy enought to do you like this, maybe he's crazy enough to come back to turn you loose.


--Thomas Mitchell (as Pat Garrett) in The Outlaw