"I wouldn't pray just for an old man that's dead, 'cause he's all right. If I was to pray, I'd pray for folks that's alive and don't know which way to turn."

"Maybe there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue, they's just what people does. Some things folks do is nice and some ain't so nice, and that's all any man's got a right to say."

"Tom, there's a whole lot I don't understand. But goin' away ain't gonna ease us. There was a time we was on the land. There was a boundary to us then. Old folks died off and little fellars come. We was always one thing. We was the family. Kind of whole and clear. But now we ain't clear no more. There ain't nothin' that keeps us clear. Al - he's a-hankerin' to be off on his own and Uncle John's just draggin' around. Your Pa's lost his place, he ain't the head no more. We're crackin' up, Tom. We ain't no family now. And Rosesharn - she's gonna have her baby, but it won't have no family. I've been a-tryin' to keep her goin' but [she sighs]...and Winfield, what's he gonna be this a-way? Grown up wild, and Ruthie too! Just like animals. Got nothin' to trust. [Tearfully] Don't go, Tom. Stay and help! Help me!"

"They come. They come and pushed me off. They come with the cats...the cats, the caterpillar tractors. And for every one of 'em, there was ten, fifteen families thrown right out of their homes. A hundred folks and no place to live but on the road....One right after the other, they got throw'd out. Half the folks you and me know throw'd right out into the road. The one that got me come oh, about a month ago."

"What was the use? He was right, and there wasn't a thing in the world I could do about it....There wasn't nothin' to eat, but I couldn't leave. Somethin' just wouldn't let me. So now I just wander around and sleep wherever I am. I used to tell myself that I was lookin' out for things, so that when the folks come back everything'd be all right. But I know'd it wasn't true. There ain't nothin' to look out fer. There ain't nobody ever comin' back. They're gone! And me, I'm just an old graveyard ghost. That's all in the world I am."

"Grandpa Joad: Wait til I get to Californey. I'm gonna reach up and pick me an orange whenever I want it. With some grapes. Now there's somethin' I ain't never had enough of."

"Grandpa Joad: I smell spare ribs. Somebody's been eatin' spare ribs. How come I ain't got none?"

"Gasoline Attendant: You and me got sense. Them Okies got no sense and no feeling. They ain't human. Human being wouldn't live the way they do. Human being couldn't stand to be so miserable."

"The most discussed book in years - now comes to the screen to become the most discussed picture in ages"

"The thousands who have read the book will know why WE WILL NOT SELL ANY CHILDREN TICKETS to see this picture!"

"The Joads step right out of the pages of the novel that has shocked millions!"

"Henry Fonda - Tom Joad"

"Russell Simpson - Pa Joad"

"Jane Darwell - Ma Joad"

"John Carradine - Jim Casy"

"Charley Grapewin - Grandpa William James Joad"

"Zeffie Tilbury - Grandma Joad"

"Frank Darien - Uncle John Joad"

"O.Z. Whitehead - Al Joad"

"Frank Sully - Noah Joad"

"Darryl Hickman - Winfield Joad"

"The way I figure it out Aron never having had a mother he's made her everything good that he can think of and that's what he thinks I am. That's who he's in love with. It's not me at all. 'Cause I'm not a bit like that made- up one. Not a bit. I don't mean I think I'm really bad."

"Mr. Trask, it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world. Don't ask me - even if you could - how I know that. I just know it. It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel. And that's the way Cal has always felt, Mr. Trask. All his life! Maybe you didn't mean it that way - but it's true. You never gave him your love. You never asked for his. You never asked him for one thing. But you must give him some sign, Mr. Trask, some sign that you love him... or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty and alone unless you release him."

"Your father still thinks he's living in the Bible, huh?"

"I got the toughest house on the coast, and the finest clientele. Half the stinking city hall go here. They sneak in at night, and I walk in this front door in the day time."

"Your father. He's the purest man there is, isn't he? Oh, he thought he had me all tied up with his purity. Now I give you $5000 of the money I made to save his purity. If you don't think that's funny, you'd better not go to college."

"Of what a girl did . . . what a boy did ... of ecstasy and revenge!"

"The searing classic of paradise lost."

"Julie Harris - Abra"

"James Dean - Cal Trask"

"Raymond Massey - Adam Trask"

"Richard Davalos - Aron Trask"

"Burl Ives - Sam the Sheriff"

"Jo Van Fleet - Kate"

"Albert Dekker - Will Hamilton"

"Lois Smith - Anne, Kate's servant"

"Timoth Carey - Joe, Kate's henchman"

"Harold Gordon - Gustav Albrecht"

"Barbara Baxley - Adam's nurse"

"Lony Chapman - Car instructor"

"Son, I'd be happy if you'd give me something like your brother's given me. Something honest and human and good. Don't be angry, Son. If you want to give me a present, give me a good life. That's something I could value."

"It's gonna work because it's got to work and it's got to work because I said so!"

"I've been jealous all my life. Jealous, I couldn't even stand it. Tonight, I even tried to buy your love, but now I don't want it anymore... I can't use it anymore. I don't want any kind of love anymore. It doesn't pay off."

"Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man."