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The Grapes of Wrath (film) Quotes

The Grapes of Wrath (film) is a TV show that first aired in 1970 . The Grapes of Wrath ended its run in 1970.

It features Darryl F. Zanuck; Nunnally Johnson as producer, Alfred Newman (composer) in charge of musical score, and Gregg Toland as head of cinematography.

The Grapes of Wrath (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Grapes of Wrath (film) is 129 minutes long. The Grapes of Wrath (film) is distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The cast includes: Henry Fonda as Tom Joad, Jane Darwell as Ma Joad, John Carradine as Casy, John Qualen as Muley Graves, Zeffie Tilbury as Grandma Joad, Zeffie Tilbury as Grandpa Joad, O. Z. Whitehead as Al Joad, Russell Simpson as Pa Joad, and Frank Darien as Uncle John.

The Grapes of Wrath (film) Quotes

O. Z. Whitehead as Al Joad

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Jane Darwell as Ma Joad

  • (Jane Darwell) "Rich fellas come up an' they die, an' their kids ain't no good an' they die out. But we keep a'comin'. We're the people that live. They can't wipe us out; they can't lick us. We'll go on forever, Pa, 'cause we're the people."
  • (Jane Darwell) "There ain't no family now. And Winfield, what's he gonna be this way? Growin' up wild. And Ruthie too. Just like animals. Got nothing to trust."

Henry Fonda as Tom Joad

  • (Henry Fonda) "Seems like the government's got more interest in a dead man than a live one."
  • (Henry Fonda) "That Casy. He might have been a preacher but he seen things clear. He was like a lantern. He helped me to see things clear."
  • (Henry Fonda) "What's the matter, Grandpa?"
  • (Zeffie Tilbury) "What's the matter? There's nothin' the matter. I just; I just ain't goin', that's all."
  • (Russell Simpson) "What you mean you ain't goin'? We got to go. We got no place to stay."
  • (Zeffie Tilbury) "I ain't talkin' about you. I'm; I'm talkin' about me. I give'r a good goin' over all last night, and I'm a-stayin'."
  • (Russell Simpson) "But you can't do that, Grandpa. This here land's goin' under the tractor. We all got to get out."
  • (Zeffie Tilbury) "All except me, and I'm stayin'."
  • (Henry Fonda) "What about Grandma?"
  • (Zeffie Tilbury) "Take her with ya."
  • (Henry Fonda) "I been thinking about us, too, about our people living like pigs and good rich land layin' fallow. Or maybe one guy with a million acres and a hundred thousand farmers starvin'. And I been wonderin' if all our folks got together and yelled --"
  • (Jane Darwell) "Oh, Tommy, they'd drag you out and cut you down just like they done to Casy."
  • (Henry Fonda) "They'd drag me anyways. Sooner or later they'd get me for one thing if not for another. Until then --"
  • (Jane Darwell) "Tommy, you're not aimin' to kill nobody."
  • (Henry Fonda) "No, Ma, not that. That ain't it. It's just, well as long as I'm an outlaw anyways -- maybe I can do somethin' -- maybe I can just find out somethin', just scrounge around and maybe find out what it is that's wrong and see if they ain't somethin' that can be done about it. I ain't thought it out all clear, Ma. I can't. I don't know enough."
  • (Jane Darwell) "How am I gonna know about ya, Tommy? Why they could kill ya and I'd never know. They could hurt ya. How am I gonna know?"
  • (Henry Fonda) "Well, maybe it's like Casy says. A fellow ain't got a soul of his own, just little piece of a big soul, the one big soul that belongs to everybody, then --"
  • (Jane Darwell) "Then what, Tom?"
  • (Henry Fonda) "Then it don't matter. I'll be all around in the dark; I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look; wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad. I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready, and when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they build; I'll be there, too."
  • (Jane Darwell) "I don't understand it, Tom."
  • (Henry Fonda) "Me, neither, Ma, but; just somethin' I been thinkin' about."

John Carradine as Casy

  • (John Carradine) "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."
  • (John Carradine) "I wouldn't pray just for a 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."
  • (John Carradine) "Tom, you gotta learn like I'm learnin'. I don't know it right yet myself. That's why I can't ever be a preacher again. Preachers gotta know. I don't know. I gotta ask."
  • (John Carradine) "You don' know what you're a-doin'."

Zeffie Tilbury as Grandpa Joad

  • (Zeffie Tilbury) "I smell spare ribs. Somebody's been eatin' spare ribs. How come I ain't got none?"
  • (Zeffie Tilbury) "It's my dirt. Eh-heh. No good, but it's; it's mine, all mine."

Frank Darien as Uncle John

  • (Frank Darien) "He is telling the truth -- the truth for him."

John Qualen as Muley Graves

  • (John Qualen) "There ain't nobody gonna push me of my land. My grandpa took up this land 70 years ago, my pa was born here, we were all born on it. And some of of us was killed on it. -- and some of us died on it. That's what make it our'n, bein' born on it, -- and workin' on it, -- and and dying' on it. And not no piece of paper with the writin' on it."

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