"Those know-it-all hippies had brainwashed Elvis, acting like he was one of them radicals, throwing his career away to sing spirituals with a bunch of longhairs."

"I always said, when it came to music, my boy knows best. But the special was my idea. It was a tremendous hit. We was back on top. But some people were putting ideas in his head that he didn't need me no more."

"Now you listen to me. The only thing that matters is that that man gets up on that stage tonight!"

"I'm a promoter. That's what I do."

"Austin Butler - Elvis Presley"

"Tom Hanks - Col. Tom Parker"

"Olivia DeJonge - Priscilla Beaulieu Presley"

"Helen Thomas - Gladys Presley"

"Richard Roxburgh - Vernon Presley"

"Kelvin Harrison Jr. - B.B. King"

"Xavier Samuel - Scotty Moore"

"David Wenham - Hank Snow"

"Kodi Smit-McPhee - Jimmie Rodgers Snow"

"Luke Bracey - Jerry Schilling"

"Leon Ford - Tom Diskin"

"Dacre Montgomery - Steve Binder"

"Alton Mason - Little Richard"

"Yola Quartey - Sister Rosetta Tharpe"

"Gary Clark Jr. - Arthur Crudup"

"Kate Mulvany - Marion Keisker"

"Josh McConville - Sam Phillips"

"Christopher Sommers - Horace Logan"

"Nicholas Bell - Senator James Eastland"

"Anthony LaPaglia - Bernard Lansky"

"Christian Kisando - Smoky"

"John Mukristayo - Jimmy"

"Miles Burton - Bobby"

"Gad Banza - Doc"

"Adam Dunn - Bill Black"

"Terepai Richmond - D.J. Fontana"

"Patrick Shearer - Dewey Phillips"

"Liz Blackett - Minnie Mae "Dodger" Presley"

"Cle Morgan - Mahalia Jackson"

"Shonka Dukureh - Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton"

"Sean Keenan - Sven"

"Adam Beach - Edward Nappo"

"Maeson Stone Skuggedal - Edward Nappo's son"

"Alice Englert - Buster"

"Bronco Henry told me that a man was made by patience in the odds against him."

"[amused, to Rose] You didn't play? Sure did practice a terrible lot. She wouldn't think there was that much difference between a cinema pit and a dinner party."

"[toasting] So, to us brothers, Romulus and Remus, and the wolf who raised us. Bronco Henry. El Lupo."

"[looking at some paper flowers] Well, well. Ain't them purdy? I wonder, what little lady made these?"

"When my father passed, I wanted nothing more than my mother's happiness. For what kind of man would I be if I did not help my mother? If I did not save her?"

"[reading from Psalms] "Deliver my soul from the sword. My darling from the power of the dog.""

"What it means to be a man."

"A story of love, hurt, and loneliness."