
You'll still have me working here like *a goddamn slave in a salt mine*, you phony, no-good piece of trash! I oughta shoot you in your fat, goddamn face. Yeah, you'll still have your claws in me.

Well, I will personally loan you the money that you owe to Jamboree Attractions. If you are so determined to get out of our contract. I don't give a damn what the Colonel thinks. I sure as hell ain't somebody who sings Christmas songs by a fireplace for an hour. I need you fellas to help me get back to who I really am. And when you're lost, people take advantage. So they cut my hair, they put me in uniform and they sent me away. You know, back when I was starting out, some people wanted to put me in jail, even kill me, 'cause of the way I was moving. I knew you were the right guys for this job. where do you boys think my career's at right now? Christmas specials aren't really our thing. I really like what you guys did, putting James Brown and the Stones together. feels as though lots of things are like that these days.

Man, I used to dream about being a great actor like Jimmy Dean. Right over there, the observatory? That's where they shot "Rebel Without a Cause". Elvis’ manager said to Dolly: “You know, we don’t record anything with Elvis unless we have the publishing, or at least half the publishing.When I first came up to Hollywood, I'd come up here and sit for hours. That evening, before the session, Colonel Tom Parker called her up. They had called me that Elvis was recording it, and if I wanted to come to the studio. That was the most important copyright I had in my publishing company. However, the country star was reluctant to give away her own song like that. It was Colonel Tom Parker, his manager, who was brilliant.

Speaking on Living and Learning with Reba McEntire, Dolly said: “It didn’t have anything to do with Elvis.
