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. Johnny Cash: [pause] Well, they're not Christians, then.
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 Ca...
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' i...
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 bec...
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.
Johnny Cash: WE SURRENDER! WE SURRENDER! June Carter: Y'all can't walk no line!
Johnny Cash: Tell me you don't love me. June Carter: I don't love you. Johnny Cash: [grinning] You're a liar. June Carter: I guess you ain't go no problems then.
June Carter: [Sees John eating peanuts] Can I have one? 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...
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....
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.
Vivian Cash: You can't wear black. It looks like you're going to a funeral. Johnny Cash: Maybe I am...
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.
Young J.R.: [to Young Jack] How come you're so good? Young Jack Cash: [laughs] I aint! Young J.R.: You pick 5 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...
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.
Johnny Cash: Now I've asked you forty different ways and it's time you come up with a fresh answer.
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 pro...
[last title cards] Title card: In 1968, "At Folsom Prison" became one of the most popular recordings of all time, outselling even the Beatles. Title card: That same year, John and June married and settled into the lake home in Hendersonville. Two yea...
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.
