Al: Ain't you gonna look back, Ma? Give the old place a last look? Ma Joad: We're goin' to California, ain't we? Alright then..., let's go to California. Al: That don't sound like you, Ma. You never was like that before. Ma Joad: I never had my house pushed over before. Never had my family stuck out on the road. I never had to lose everything I had in life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Indiana was really, I suppose, a Democratic State. It has always been put down in the book as a state that might be carried by a c...lose and careful and perfect organization and a great deal of--[from audience: "soap"Ma reference to purchased votes, the word being followed by laughter]. I see reporters here, and therefore I will simply say that everybody showed a great deal of interest in the occasion, and distributed tracts and political documents all through the country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Directors like Satyajit Ray, Rossellini, Bresson, Buñuel, Forman, Scorsese, and Spike Lee have used non-professional actors preci...sely in order that the people we see on the screen may be scarcely more explained than reality itself. Professionals, except fo the greatest, usually play not just the necessary role, but an explanation of the role.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are--it's "Look at me, Ma!" It's acceptance, you know--"Look at me, Ma, l...ook at me, Ma, look at me, Ma." And if your mother watches, you'll show off till you're exhausted; but if your mother goes, Ptshew!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And then ... he flung open the door of my compartment, and ushered in "Ma young and lovely lady!" I muttered to myself with some b...itterness. "And this is, of course, the opening scene of Vol. I. She is the Heroine. And I am one of those subordinate characters that only turn up when needed for the development of her destiny, and whose final appearance is outside the church, waiting to greet the Happy Pair!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ma, sooner or later there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I've got to face is whatever... it is women like, I ain't got it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is silly to call fat people "gravitationally challenged"Ma self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom... of political frustration.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sisters, cousins, aunts, and niece, And widowed ma of Captain Reece,... Attended there as they were bid; It was their duty, and they did.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »