Walk the Line Quotes

Walk the Line is a TV program that first aired in 1970 . Walk the Line ended its run in 1970.

It features James Keach as producer, T Bone Burnett in charge of musical score, and Phedon Papamichael as head of cinematography.

Walk the Line is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Walk the Line is 136 minutes long. Walk the Line is distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The cast includes: Dallas Roberts as Sam Phillips, Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash, Reese Witherspoon as June Carter, Waylon Payne as Jerry Lee Lewis, Sandra Ellis Lafferty as Maybelle Carter, Robert Patrick as Ray Cash, Tyler Hilton as Elvis Presley, Shooter Jennings as Waylon Jennings, Dan John Miller as Luther Perkins, Hailey Anne Nelson as Rosanne Cash, Shelby Lynne as Carrie Cash, and James Keach as Warden.

Walk the Line Quotes

Reese Witherspoon as June Carter

• (Reese Witherspoon) "You walked here all the way from Nashville?"
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Yeah, well, walking is good for you --"

• (Reese Witherspoon) "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."

• (Reese Witherspoon) "Can I have one?"
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Yeah."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Open your mouth --"
• (Reese Witherspoon) "John."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "I'm sorry, I'm sorry -- here."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Open your mouth -- Open your mouth --"
• (Reese Witherspoon) "No -- I don't trust you --"
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Oh, June don't say that --"
• (Reese Witherspoon) "I don't --"
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Yes, you do -- now open your mouth --"
• (Reese Witherspoon) "John, you are a mean man. You're a mean man, and I knew it -- I knew it all along --"

• (Reese Witherspoon) "John, I'm not gonna sing that song, it's inappropriate."
• (Reese Witherspoon) "I recorded it with my ex-husband,"
• (Reese Witherspoon) "and I'm not gonna sing it."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "There's no better way to put it behind you."
• (Reese Witherspoon) "I'm not gonna do it."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "June, just sing."

• (Reese Witherspoon) "Baby baby baby --"

• (Reese Witherspoon) "It burns. It burns."

• (Reese Witherspoon) "You got a hitch in your giddy-up?"

• (Reese Witherspoon) "I gotta tell you, I can't sing tonight. I got the laryngitis."
• (Reese Witherspoon) "Y'all laughin, but I do."
• (Unnamed) "We just heard you hollerin up a storm back there."
• (Reese Witherspoon) "Well, I didn't have it then, Billy."

• (Reese Witherspoon) "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?"
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "What'd I do?"
• (Reese Witherspoon) "Gee, I don't know. Why don't you ask your big, fat shadow?"

• (Reese Witherspoon) "There's too many "if"s in that sentence."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "There's only one actually."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "There's only one "if" in that sentence, June."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "I-I thought it was a good point -- I mean, there is only one."

• (Reese Witherspoon) "Ya you're goin' to Jackson, you big talkin' man --"

Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "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."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Marry me, June."
• (Reese Witherspoon) "Oh please, get up off your knees, you look pathetic."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Fortunately I keep my feathers numbered for just such an emergency."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Come on, man, play the f***in' thing."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "WE SURRENDER. WE SURRENDER."
• (Reese Witherspoon) "Y'all can't walk no line."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "You got something against the Air Force, Mr. Phillips?"
• (Dallas Roberts) "No --"
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Well, I do."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "So, where's your truck driver?"
• (Reese Witherspoon) "Stock car driver. And you'll be happy to know things aren't working out between the two of us."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "It doesn't make me happy. Well -- maybe a little it does."

• (Vivian Cash) "Your mama was here. Your daddy too."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "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."

• (Vivian Cash) "You can't wear black. It looks like you're going to a funeral."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Maybe I am --"

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "You know, when I was in the service, I used to look at pictures of you. In magazines."
• (Reese Witherspoon) "-- Oh?"
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Oh, no. It's -- It's not like that."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "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."
• (Reese Witherspoon) "Oh really? Is that what my problem is?"
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Yes."
• (Reese Witherspoon) "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."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "June."
• (Reese Witherspoon) "What?"
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Marry me."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Ok -- Ok fine -- but that's the last time i'm asking --"
• (Reese Witherspoon) "Well, good. I hate reruns."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "I want to marry you and I am telling you it's the time."
• (Reese Witherspoon) "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."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "The phone's dead."
• (Shooter Jennings) "Yeah. It's been turned off due to insufficient fundellations."

• (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."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Well, they're not Christians, then."

• (Record Company Executive) "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."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "You got a library in there June."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "I think it's about time, June."
• (Reese Witherspoon) "Time for what?"
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "For you and me -- to get married."
• (Reese Witherspoon) "Go to sleep, John."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "See, June, they want to see us together."
• (Reese Witherspoon) "All right, well, quit that clutchin' on me now and I'll sing with you, but you gotta quit clutchin' on me."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Aw, June, love's more important than the tour."
• (Reese Witherspoon) "Is that right?"
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Yes, it is."
• (Reese Witherspoon) "Well, then start loving yourself, so we can go back to work."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Jerry Lee just sit your ass down."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Next time I ask you to marry me, I'm gonna come up with a different way."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "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."
• (Robert Patrick) "Well, where were you?"
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Where were you?"

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Looks like we're here."
• (Reese Witherspoon) "Oh, thank goodness. Get me outta this car with all these boys."

• (Vivian Cash) "John, whats with the black? You look like you're goin' to a funeral."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Maybe I am --"

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "I'm not the one you want babe, I'll only let you down."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "You're an angel."
• (Reese Witherspoon) "No, I'm not."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "You've been there with me."
• (Reese Witherspoon) "I had a friend who needed help. You're my friend."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "But I've done so many bad things."
• (Reese Witherspoon) "You've done a few, that's true."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "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'."
• (Reese Witherspoon) "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."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "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."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "This one's for your warden."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Tell me you don't love me."
• (Reese Witherspoon) "I don't love you."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "You're a liar."
• (Reese Witherspoon) "I guess you ain't go no problems then."

Waylon Payne as Jerry Lee Lewis

• (Waylon Payne) "Get yourselves a pine box, boys. Nobody follows The Killer."

• (Waylon Payne) "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."

• (Waylon Payne) "We're all going to hell for the songs we sing."
• (Reese Witherspoon) "And what about me, Jerry Lee; am I going to hell too?"
• (Waylon Payne) "No, June, you're beautiful."
• (Waylon Payne) "She's making me fall in love with her."

Shooter Jennings as Waylon Jennings

• (Shooter 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 --"
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "June call?"
• (Shooter Jennings) "over me."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Waylon. Did June call?"

• (Shooter Jennings) "How come you ain't ever tried this kind of pickin', Luther?"
• (Dan John Miller) "Well, Waylon, whatever you're lookin' for, I've already found."

Shelby Lynne as Carrie Cash

• (Shelby Lynne) "Ray, why don't you let JR take the babies in?"
• (Robert Patrick) "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?"
• (Shelby Lynne) "We're not sellin' Daddy's piano. And i'm not the one in Bartstown drinkin every saturday."
• (Shelby Lynne) "Am I a soldier of the cross A follower of the Lamb, And shall I fear --"
• (Young J.R.) "to own His cause Or blush to speak His name"

• (Young Jack Cash) "Do you hear 'em JR? Do you hear them angels?"
• (Shelby Lynne) "I can hear 'em Jack, they're beautiful. So beautiful."

Tyler Hilton as Elvis Presley

• (Tyler Hilton) "Want some chili fries?"

• (Tyler Hilton) "How 'bout that Johnny Cash huh?"

• (Tyler Hilton) "Nice job out there, Cash."
• (Waylon Payne) "That's right, kiss his ass."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Hey Jerry Lee, does your momma know you're out?"
• (Waylon Payne) "She knows."

Sandra Ellis Lafferty as Maybelle Carter

• (Sandra Ellis Lafferty) "You should go down there to him, June."
• (Reese Witherspoon) "Mama?"
• (Sandra Ellis Lafferty) "He's all mixed up."
• (Reese Witherspoon) "I am not goin' down there, if I go down there --"
• (Sandra Ellis Lafferty) "You're already are down there, honey."

James Keach as Warden

• (James Keach) "M-Mr. Cash? M-Mr. Cash?"

Dallas Roberts as Sam Phillips

• (Dallas Roberts) "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."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Well you didn't let us bring it home."
• (Dallas Roberts) "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."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "I got a couple of songs I wrote in the Air Force. You got anything against the Air Force?"
• (Dallas Roberts) "No."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "I do."

Robert Patrick as Ray Cash

• (Robert Patrick) "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'."

Dan John Miller as Luther Perkins

• (Dan John Miller) "How do you get those shirts so -- stiff?"

Hailey Anne Nelson as Rosanne Cash

• (Hailey Anne Nelson) "Hey Daddy, you okay?"
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Yeah honey, I'm fine. See you in the mornin'."

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