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Johnny Cash: [while singing while he's high on stage] Come on, man, play the fuckin' thing!

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Carlene Carter: [shouts through screen door] Mama! Johnny Cash is here!

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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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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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Luther Perkins: [to the cops in the elevator] How do you get those shirts so... stiff?

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[first lines]
Warden: M-Mr. Cash? M-Mr. Cash?

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Luther Perkins: That boy Elvis sure talks a lot of poon.

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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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[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.