Nashville (1975)

Lily Tomlin: Linnea Reese

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• Opal : Let me see. Um, have you any children?

  Linnea Reese : Yes, I have two children. I have a boy and a girl.

  Opal : Oh, isn't that nice. How old are they?

  Linnea Reese : Twelve and eleven.

  Opal : Do they want to be singers like their mummy?

  Linnea Reese : Uh, well, my children are deaf. They're... They are deaf. They were born deaf.

  Opal : Oh, my God, how awful. It's so depressing.

  Linnea Reese : - Now, just a minute. That's not so. I wish you could see my boy.

  Opal : Oh, I couldn't.

  Linnea Reese : He has the most incredible personality.

  Opal : It's the sadness of it.

• Opal : Good Lord, love a duck!

  Bud Hamilton : This is a choir, a black choir, from, uh, part of, from Fisk University here in town.

  Opal : Good Lord!

  Bud Hamilton : The lady singing is...

  Opal : Is she a missionary?

  Bud Hamilton : No, she's not. She's a gospel singer. She's the wife of our attorney.

  Opal : I was making a documentary in Kenya... and there was this marvelous woman who was a missionary. That's why I thought she was a missionary. And she was sensational. She was converting Kikuyus by the dozens. And she was trying to convert Maasais. Of course, they were hopeless. I mean, they have their own sort of religion, I think.

  Linnea Reese : [singing]  Do you believe in Jesus?

  Black Gospel Choir : [singing]  Yes, I do!

  Linnea Reese : [singing]  Do you believe in Jesus?

  Black Gospel Choir : [singing]  Yes, I do!

  Linnea Reese : [singing]  Do you believe in Jesus?...

  Opal : Look at that! That rhythm is fantastic. You know, it's funny, you can tell, it come down in the genes, through ages and ages and hundreds of years, but it's there! And take off those robes and one is in... in... in darkest Africa. I can just see their - naked, frenzied bodies, dancing to the beat of - Do they carry on like that in church?

  Bud Hamilton : Depends on which church you go to.