Walk the Line Movie Quotes
Record Company Executive
Your fans are church folk, Johnny. Christians. They don't wanna hear you singing to a bunch of murderers and rapists, tryin' to cheer 'em up.
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[after record producer Sam Phillips stops Cash's band a couple of verses into their audition]
Sam Phillips
You know exactly what I'm telling you. We've already heard that song a hundred times. Just like that. Just... like... how... you... sing it.
Johnny Cash
Well you didn't let us bring it home.
Sam Phillips
Bring... bring it home? All right, let's bring it home. If you was hit by a truck and you was lying out there in that gutter dying, and you had time to sing *one* song. Huh? One song that people would remember before you're dirt. One song that would let God know how you felt about your time here on Earth. One song that would sum you up. You tellin' me that's the song you'd sing? That same Jimmy Davis tune we hear on the radio all day, about your peace within, and how it's real, and how you're gonna shout it? Or... would you sing somethin' different. Somethin' real. Somethin' *you* felt. Cause I'm telling you right now, that's the kind of song people want to hear. That's the kind of song that truly saves people. It ain't got nothin to do with believin' in God, Mr. Cash. It has to do with believin' in yourself.
Johnny Cash
[after a pause]
I got a couple of songs I wrote in the Air Force. You got anything against the Air Force?
Sam Phillips
No.
Johnny Cash
I do.
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June Carter
[on stage w/John]
We've got these people all revved up, John. Now c'mon, let's sing Jackson for 'em.
Johnny Cash
You've got me all revved up. Now I've asked you forty different ways and it's time you come up with a fresh answer.
June Carter
Please sing.
Johnny Cash
I'm asking you to marry me. I love you, June. Now I know I said and done a lotta things, that I hurt you, but I promise, I'll never do that again. I only want to take care of you. I will not leave you like that dutch boy with your finger in the dam.
June Carter
[shakes head]
Johnny Cash
You're my best friend. Marry me.
Johnny Cash
Yeah?
[They kiss and the crowd cheers]
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Vivian Cash
You can't wear black. It looks like you're going to a funeral.
Johnny Cash
Maybe I am...
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Johnny Cash
It's all right, it just happened.
June Carter
Just happened?
Johnny Cash
Yeah.
June Carter
You wear black 'cause you can't find anything else to wear? You found your sound 'cause you can't play no better? You just tried to kiss me because "it just happened?" You should try take credit for something every once in a while, John.
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Johnny Cash
Now I've asked you forty different ways and it's time you come up with a fresh answer.
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Johnny Cash
Aw, June, love's more important than the tour.
June Carter
Is that right?
Johnny Cash
Yes, it is.
June Carter
Well, then start loving yourself, so we can go back to work.
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[last title cards]
Title card
In 1968, "At Folsom Prison" became one of the most popular recordings of all time, outselling even the Beatles.
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That same year, John and June married and settled into the lake home in Hendersonville. Two years later they had a son, John Carter Cash.
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For the next 35 years they raised their children, recorded music, toured and played the world together.
Title card
June passed in May 2003. Four months later, John followed.
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Jerry Lee Lewis
God gave us a great big apple, see, and He said don't touch it. He didn't say touch it once in a while; He didn't say take a nibble when you're hungry; He said don't touch it! Don't think about touchin'it, don't sing about touchin' it, don't *think* about singin' about touchin' it!
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Maybelle Carter
You should go down there to him, June.
June Carter
Mama?
Maybelle Carter
He's all mixed up.
June Carter
I am not goin' down there, if I go down there...
Maybelle Carter
You're already are down there, honey.
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Johnny Cash
You're an angel.
June Carter
No, I'm not.
Johnny Cash
You've been there with me.
June Carter
I had a friend who needed help. You're my friend.
Johnny Cash
But I've done so many bad things.
June Carter
You've done a few, that's true.
Johnny Cash
My Daddy's right. It should have been me on that saw. Jack was so good. He would have done so many good things. What have I done? Just hurt everybody I know. I know I've hurt you. I'm nothin'.
June Carter
You're not nothin'. You are not nothin'. You're a good man, and God has given you a second chance to make things right, John. This is your chance, honey.
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Johnny Cash
Tell me you don't love me.
June Carter
I don't love you.
June Carter
I guess you ain't go no problems then.
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Johnny Cash
WE SURRENDER! WE SURRENDER!
June Carter
Y'all can't walk no line!
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Vivian Cash
Your mama was here. Your daddy too.
Johnny Cash
Oh yeah. And what'd he say?
Vivian Cash
He said now you won't have to work so hard to make people think you've been in jail.
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Johnny Cash
[Performing at Folsom Prison]
Now, I'd like to remind you all that we're recording live, so you can't say "hell" or "shit" or anything like that!
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Johnny Cash
You know what your problem is, June Carter? You are afraid to be in love, you are afraid of losing control, And you know what June Carter, I think you are afraid of livin' in my big fat shadow.
June Carter
Oh really? Is that what my problem is?
Johnny Cash
Yes.
June Carter
My problem is that it's 2 A.M. My problem is I'm asleep. I'm on a tour bus with eight stinkin' men. Rule number one: Don't propose to a girl on a bus, you got that? Rule number two: Don't tell her it's because you had a bad dream.
Johnny Cash
June.
June Carter
What?
Johnny Cash
Marry me.
[June glares]
Johnny Cash
Ok... Ok fine... but that's the last time i'm asking...
June Carter
Well, good. I hate reruns.
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Young J.R.
[to Young Jack]
How come you're so good?
Young J.R.
You pick five times more than me.
Young Jack Cash
Well, I'm bigger than you are.
Young J.R.
You know every story in the scripture.
Young Jack Cash
Well, you know every song in Mama's hymnal!
Young J.R.
Songs are easy.
Young J.R.
There's more words in the bible than in the Heavenly Highway Hymns.
Young Jack Cash
Look, J.R., if I'm going to be a preacher one day, I gotta know the bible front to back. I mean, you can't help nobody if you can't tell them the right story.
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Jerry Lee Lewis
We're all going to hell for the songs we sing!
June Carter
And what about me, Jerry Lee; am I going to hell too?
Jerry Lee Lewis
No, June, you're beautiful.
Jerry Lee Lewis
[Later]
She's making me fall in love with her.
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Johnny Cash
I want to marry you and I am telling you it's the time.
June Carter
Well I'm telling you with 100 percent certainty that it is not the time. It's not about time, it's not the right time, it's not even quarter to the right time.
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Johnny Cash
Yeah.
[Takes a peanut out of the bag and holds it above June's mouth]
Johnny Cash
Open your mouth...
June Carter
[June opens her mouth, but John snatches it away and eats it]
June Carter
John!
Johnny Cash
I'm sorry, I'm sorry... here.
[Takes another peanut out of the bag and holds it over June's mouth]
Johnny Cash
Open your mouth... Open your mouth...
June Carter
No... I don't trust you...
Johnny Cash
Oh, June don't say that...
June Carter
I don't...
Johnny Cash
Yes, you do... now open your mouth...
June Carter
[June opens her mouth, but John snatches away the peanut from her again]
June Carter
[Playfully hits John]
John, you are a mean man! You're a mean man, and I knew it... I knew it all along...
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[repeated line]
Johnny Cash
Hello, I'm Johnny Cash.
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June Carter
I gotta tell you, I can't sing tonight. I got the laryngitis.
[Crowd laughs]
June Carter
Y'all laughin, but I do.
Billy
We just heard you hollerin up a storm back there.
June Carter
Well, I didn't have it then, Billy.
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[last lines]
Johnny Cash
Why don't you tell them about the flood? Tell 'em about how you made a boat out of the front door and got us all out of there. They'll like that.
Carlene Carter
Tell us!
Johnny Cash
Come on, tell 'em. You got to pull the string tight.
Ray Cash
It was 1937; there was a flood...
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June Carter
Baby baby baby...
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Young J.R.
[J.R. turns up the radio]
Guess which Carter this is.
Young Jack Cash
I don't know J.R.
Young J.R.
Guess...
Young Jack Cash
Anita?
Young J.R.
Nope...
Young Jack Cash
Who?
Young J.R.
June.
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June Carter
There's too many "if"s in that sentence.
Johnny Cash
There's only one actually.
[shouting]
Johnny Cash
There's only one "if" in that sentence, June!
[looking at Jerry Lee]
Johnny Cash
I-I thought it was a good point... I mean, there is only one.
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June Carter
[after an argument]
You are not allowed to speak to me. After that stunt you pulled on the bus, the only place you are allowed to speak to me is on stage. Do you understand?
Johnny Cash
What'd I do?
June Carter
Gee, I don't know. Why don't you ask your big, fat shadow?
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[John and June on stage before an audience, away from mic]
June Carter
John, I'm not gonna sing that song, it's inappropriate.
[John signals to start music]
June Carter
I recorded it with my ex-husband,
[music starts]
June Carter
and I'm not gonna sing it.
Johnny Cash
There's no better way to put it behind you.
June Carter
I'm not gonna do it!
Johnny Cash
June, just sing.
[John and June begin a duet]
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Johnny Cash
See, June, they want to see us together.
June Carter
All right, well, quit that clutchin' on me now and I'll sing with you, but you gotta quit clutchin' on me.
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Waylon Jennings
I'm a long way from home/And so all alone/ Homesick like I never thought I'd be/ I'm a long way from home/Everything is wrong/Someone please watch...
Waylon Jennings
- over me.
Johnny Cash
Waylon! Did June call?
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Johnny Cash
[playing for the inmates at Folsom prison]
Once in El Paso, I had this bag of... Oh... you heard about that? You been in El Paso, too? Well, anyways, I felt tough, you know?. Like I'd seen a thing or two, you know? Well, that was till a moment ago... 'cuz I got to tell you, my hat's off to you now, 'cuz I ain't never had to drink this yellow water you got here at Folsom!
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Carrie Cash
I can hear 'em Jack, they're beautiful. So beautiful.
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June Carter
It burns. It burns.
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Five and Dime Manager
Divorce is an abomination. Marriage is for life.
June Carter
I'm sorry I let you down, ma'am.
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Ray Cash
Mister big shot, mister pill poppin' rock star. Who are you to judge, you ain't got nothin'; big empty house, nothin'; children you don't see, nothin'; big ol' expensive tractor stuck in the mud, nothin'.
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Johnny Cash
Next time I ask you to marry me, I'm gonna come up with a different way.
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Johnny Cash
The phone's dead.
Waylon Jennings
Yeah. It's been turned off due to insufficient fundellations.
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Johnny Cash
I think it's about time, June.
June Carter
Time for what?
Johnny Cash
For you and me... to get married.
June Carter
Go to sleep, John.
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Johnny Cash
You know when I was in the service... I used to look at pictures of you... you know, in magazines.
Johnny Cash
[with a pre-devised apology]
No... Oh no, it wasn't like that. I mean, I... I liked your music, you know?
June Carter
Yeah?
Johnny Cash
Yeah... Oh yeah, I mean, you were, well, you are... I mean, l-I kept track of you. You and your family. I listened to your voice my whole life, you know? Me and my brother, Jack... we always listened to your songs. Like "Swallerin' Place."
June Carter
Yeah...
Johnny Cash
Yeah. We liked it when you'd sing one alone.
June Carter
Well, you and Jack are the only ones.
Johnny Cash
What do you mean?
June Carter
I'm not really much of a singer, Johnny. I mean, I got a lot of personality, I got sass... I give it my all, but my sister Anita's really the one who's got the pipes.
June Carter
Everybody. My mama, my daddy. That's how come I learned to be funny... so I'd have something to offer.
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June Carter
Ya'll can't walk no line.
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Johnny Cash
[after collapsing on stage from a drug overdose]
Fortunately I keep my feathers numbered for just such an emergency.
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Johnny Cash
Don't give me no rules. All I got are rules.
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Johnny Cash
Marry me, June.
June Carter
Oh please, get up off your knees, you look pathetic.
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Johnny Cash
You got a library in there June.
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Johnny Cash
This one's for your warden!
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Johnny Cash
[looking at Vivian]
[singing]
Johnny Cash
I'm not the one you want babe, I'll only let you down.
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Johnny Cash
So, where's your truck driver?
June Carter
Stock car driver. And you'll be happy to know things aren't working out between the two of us.
Johnny Cash
It doesn't make me happy! Well... maybe a little it does.
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Johnny Cash
I'm really glad ya'll could be here today, especially you Dad, glad you came. Not everybody's here. Jack's not here is he, huh? Where you been? That's what you said to me, remember? I was twelve years old and he got Jack's bloody clothes, and you asked where I'd been.
Ray Cash
Well, where were you?
Johnny Cash
Where were you?
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Vivian Cash
John, whats with the black? You look like you're goin' to a funeral!
Johnny Cash
Maybe I am...
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Johnny Cash
June, that stuff will just work itself out.
June Carter
No, it does not work itself out. People work it out for you and you think it works itself out.
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Ray Cash
[to J.R. listening to June Carter singing on the radio]
She's been in the spotlight since you and me was bitin' ankles.
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Record Company Executive
I'm fine with you doing a live album - just not at a prison. That's my compromise.
Johnny Cash
On January 13th, I'll be at Folsom prison, with June and the boys. You listen to the tapes. If you don't like them, you can toss them.
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Johnny Cash
You know, when I was in the service, I used to look at pictures of you. In magazines.
June Carter
...Oh?
Johnny Cash
Oh, no. It's... It's not like that.
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Johnny Cash
Looks like we're here.
June Carter
Oh, thank goodness. Get me outta this car with all these boys.
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Vivian Cash
John, I have a casserole in the oven and your sister in the kitchen, and I don't want to talk about the tour.
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June Carter
You walked here all the way from Nashville?
Johnny Cash
Yeah, well, walking is good for you...
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Elvis Presley
Nice job out there, Cash!
Jerry Lee Lewis
That's right, kiss his ass!
Johnny Cash
Hey Jerry Lee, does your momma know you're out?
Jerry Lee Lewis
[laughing]
She knows.
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Johnny Cash
You got something against the Air Force, Mr. Phillips?
Sam Phillips
No...
Johnny Cash
Well, I do.
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Jerry Lee Lewis
[to next act]
Get yourselves a pine box, boys. Nobody follows The Killer!
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Elvis Presley
How 'bout that Johnny Cash huh?
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[Backstage, Johnny Cash and June Carter bump into each other and her dress gets caught on Johnny's guitar strap]
June Carter
That's my cue. Oh, no. Oh, that's stuck right on my dress.
[hollers onstage]
June Carter
Hey, Bill! Hold on, Bill! I'm coming!
Billy
[onstage] I think... Oh, my, I think I hear June Carter's voice, ladies and gentlemen.
June Carter
[off-screen] I'll be right there, Bill! I'll be right there.
Billy
[chuckles] Reckon when, June?
June Carter
Well, Bill, I got tangled!
Billy
In what, June-bug?
June Carter
Johnny Cash's guitar strap!
[to Johnny]
June Carter
Don't worry, I can keep this funny for two minutes.
[to Billy]
June Carter
And I'll tell you what, Bill! He's a strapping boy, that Johnny Cash! And his guitar strap's real strapping too!
[to Johnny]
June Carter
Here.
[rips the dress from the guitar strap]
June Carter
I love that "Cry" song, by the way.
Johnny Cash
[bemused] Hey, thanks.
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Johnny Cash
It's funny, you know, because I haven't talked about Jack in a long time. After he passed I talked about him all the time. But I guess people grew tired of it... so I just stopped.
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Elvis Presley
Want some chili fries?
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Carrie Cash
Ray, why don't you let JR take the babies in?
Ray Cash
I told Roz we'd have a crop today. What do I say if he pulls up here and we're shy? You ready to unload that piano?
Carrie Cash
We're not sellin' Daddy's piano. And I'm not the one in Bartstown drinkin' every Saturday.
[Ray angrily kicks a can]
Carrie Cash
[continuing to work, singing]
Am I a soldier of the cross. A follower of the Lamb, and shall I fear...
Young J.R.
[joining in]
to own His cause or blush to speak His name
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Carlene Carter
[shouts through screen door]
Mama! Johnny Cash is here!
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Luther Perkins
That boy Elvis sure talks a lot of poon.
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[first lines]
Warden
M-Mr. Cash? M-Mr. Cash?
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Rosanne Cash
Hey Daddy, you okay?
Johnny Cash
Yeah honey, I'm fine. See you in the mornin'.
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Waylon Jennings
How come you ain't ever tried this kind of pickin', Luther?
[Picks a song on his guitar]
Luther Perkins
Well, Waylon, whatever you're lookin' for, I've already found.
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June Carter
So y'all sit down, squat down or lie down but make yourselves at home 'cause here's the one and only, Mr. Johnny Cash!
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Record Company Executive
[talking about the Opry]
He's been banned for smashing out the footlights.
Record Company Executive
If he smashes out lights at Folsom, they're gonna keep him there.
Johnny Cash
[laughing]
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Vivian Cash
[talking to Johnny, and pointing to a bag]
That bag over there are letters 10 to 1 from girls. 10 to 1, and they're obscene. Reba's been trying to answer some of them but half of them aint even 15, and they're sending pictures of themselves in bathing suits. Pictures for you to look at while you're doing time at Folsom.
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Johnny Cash
Jerry Lee just sit your ass down.
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