Top 50 Quotes From Walk the Line

Johnny: Tell me you don't love me.
June: I don't love you.
Johnny: [grinning] You're a liar.
June: I guess you ain't go no problems then.

Johnny: See, June, they want to see us together.
June: All right, well, quit that clutchin' on me now and I'll sing with you, but you gotta quit clutchin' on me.

June: Baby baby baby...

Johnny: It's all right, it just happened.
June: Just happened?
Johnny: Yeah.
June: 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.

Vivian: Your mama was here. Your daddy too.
Johnny: Oh yeah. And what'd he say?
Vivian: He said now you won't have to work so hard to make people think you've been in jail.

Johnny: Marry me, June.
June: Oh please, get up off your knees, you look pathetic.

Johnny: Looks like we're here.
June: Oh, thank goodness. Get me outta this car with all these boys.

Five: Divorce is an abomination. Marriage is for life.
June: I'm sorry I let you down, ma'am.

June: [on stage w/John] We've got these people all revved up, John. Now c'mon, let's sing Jackson for 'em.
Johnny: 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: Please sing.
Johnny: 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: [shakes head]
Johnny: You're my best friend. Marry me.
June: [quietly] All right.
Johnny: Yeah?
[They kiss and the crowd cheers]

Johnny: Next time I ask you to marry me, I'm gonna come up with a different way.

Jerry: 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!

Maybelle: You should go down there to him, June.
June: Mama?
Maybelle: He's all mixed up.
June: I am not goin' down there, if I go down there...
Maybelle: You're already are down there, honey.

June: It burns. It burns.

June: I gotta tell you, I can't sing tonight. I got the laryngitis.
[Crowd laughs]
June: Y'all laughin, but I do.
Billy: We just heard you hollerin up a storm back there.
June: Well, I didn't have it then, Billy.

[repeated line]
Johnny: Hello, I'm Johnny Cash.

June: [Looks at John, singing] Ya you're goin' to Jackson, you big talkin' man...

Jerry: We're all going to hell for the songs we sing!
June: And what about me, Jerry Lee; am I going to hell too?
Jerry: No, June, you're beautiful.
Jerry: [Later] She's making me fall in love with her.

June: You walked here all the way from Nashville?
Johnny: Yeah, well, walking is good for you...

Ray: 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'.

Young: [dying] Do you hear 'em JR? Do you hear them angels?
Carrie: I can hear 'em Jack, they're beautiful. So beautiful.

[after record producer Sam Phillips stops Cash's band a couple of verses into their audition]
Sam: 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: Well you didn't let us bring it home.
Sam: 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: [after a pause] I got a couple of songs I wrote in the Air Force. You got anything against the Air Force?
Sam: No.
Johnny: I do.

Johnny: 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: Oh really? Is that what my problem is?
Johnny: Yes.
June: 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: June.
June: What?
Johnny: Marry me.
[June glares]
Johnny: Ok... Ok fine... but that's the last time i'm asking...
June: Well, good. I hate reruns.

June: [to Johnny] You got a hitch in your giddy-up?

Johnny: [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!

Johnny: Aw, June, love's more important than the tour.
June: Is that right?
Johnny: Yes, it is.
June: Well, then start loving yourself, so we can go back to work.

Vivian: You can't wear black. It looks like you're going to a funeral.
Johnny: Maybe I am...

Johnny: WE SURRENDER! WE SURRENDER!
June: Y'all can't walk no line!

Johnny: I think it's about time, June.
June: Time for what?
Johnny: For you and me... to get married.
June: Go to sleep, John.

Johnny: I want to marry you and I am telling you it's the time.
June: 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.

Johnny: [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!

Johnny: [after collapsing on stage from a drug overdose] Fortunately I keep my feathers numbered for just such an emergency.

Johnny: You got a library in there June.

Young J.R.: [to Young Jack] How come you're so good?
Young: [laughs] I ain't!
Young J.R.: You pick five times more than me.
Young: Well, I'm bigger than you are.
Young J.R.: You know every story in the scripture.
Young: Well, you know every song in Mama's hymnal!
Young J.R.: Songs are easy.
Young: [laughs] It ain't for me.
Young J.R.: There's more words in the bible than in the Heavenly Highway Hymns.
Young: 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.

Elvis: Nice job out there, Cash!
Jerry: That's right, kiss his ass!
Johnny: Hey Jerry Lee, does your momma know you're out?
Jerry: [laughing] She knows.

Waylon: 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...
Johnny: [while Waylon is still singing] June call?
Waylon: - over me.
Johnny: Waylon! Did June call?

Johnny: Don't give me no rules. All I got are rules.

Record: 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.
Johnny: [pause] Well, they're not Christians, then.

[John and June on stage before an audience, away from mic]
June: John, I'm not gonna sing that song, it's inappropriate.
[John signals to start music]
June: I recorded it with my ex-husband,
[music starts]
June: and I'm not gonna sing it.
Johnny: There's no better way to put it behind you.
June: I'm not gonna do it!
Johnny: June, just sing.
[John and June begin a duet]

[last title cards]
Title: In 1968, "At Folsom Prison" became one of the most popular recordings of all time, outselling even the Beatles.
Title: 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.
Title: For the next 35 years they raised their children, recorded music, toured and played the world together.
Title: June passed in May 2003. Four months later, John followed.

Johnny: The phone's dead.
Waylon: Yeah. It's been turned off due to insufficient fundellations.

Vivian: John, I have a casserole in the oven and your sister in the kitchen, and I don't want to talk about the tour.

Johnny: You know when I was in the service... I used to look at pictures of you... you know, in magazines.
June: [pretending to be concerned] Oh.
Johnny: [with a pre-devised apology] No... Oh no, it wasn't like that. I mean, I... I liked your music, you know?
June: Yeah?
Johnny: 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: Yeah...
Johnny: Yeah. We liked it when you'd sing one alone.
June: Well, you and Jack are the only ones.
Johnny: What do you mean?
June: 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.
Johnny: [averting his eyes] Well, who said that?
June: Everybody. My mama, my daddy. That's how come I learned to be funny... so I'd have something to offer.

[last lines]
Johnny: 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: Tell us!
Johnny: Come on, tell 'em. You got to pull the string tight.
Ray: It was 1937; there was a flood...

Young J.R.: [J.R. turns up the radio] Guess which Carter this is.
Young: I don't know J.R.
Young J.R.: Guess...
Young: Anita?
Young J.R.: Nope...
Young: Who?
Young J.R.: June.

June: There's too many "if"s in that sentence.
Johnny: There's only one actually.
[shouting]
Johnny: There's only one "if" in that sentence, June!
[looking at Jerry Lee]
Johnny: I-I thought it was a good point... I mean, there is only one.

June: [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: What'd I do?
June: Gee, I don't know. Why don't you ask your big, fat shadow?

June: [Sees John eating peanuts] Can I have one?
Johnny: Yeah.
[Takes a peanut out of the bag and holds it above June's mouth]
Johnny: Open your mouth...
June: [June opens her mouth, but John snatches it away and eats it]
June: John!
Johnny: I'm sorry, I'm sorry... here.
[Takes another peanut out of the bag and holds it over June's mouth]
Johnny: Open your mouth... Open your mouth...
June: No... I don't trust you...
Johnny: Oh, June don't say that...
June: I don't...
Johnny: Yes, you do... now open your mouth...
June: [June opens her mouth, but John snatches away the peanut from her again]
June: [Playfully hits John] John, you are a mean man! You're a mean man, and I knew it... I knew it all along...

Johnny: You're an angel.
June: No, I'm not.
Johnny: You've been there with me.
June: I had a friend who needed help. You're my friend.
Johnny: But I've done so many bad things.
June: You've done a few, that's true.
Johnny: 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: 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.

Johnny: Now I've asked you forty different ways and it's time you come up with a fresh answer.

June: Ya'll can't walk no line.