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Rod Steiger

Rod Steiger
(as Jud Fry)

Jud Fry: Look at me. I'm a hired hand. I got dirt on my hands. Pig slop. I ain't fit to touch you, am I - you're better. Oh, you're so much better, Miss Laurey Williams! Well we'll see how much better you are, and then you won't be so free and easy and hifalutin' with your airs! You such a FINE lady!

Eddie Albert

Eddie Albert
(as Ali Hakim)

Will Parker: I don't know what to make of you! You're too purty to be a skunk! Too thin to be a snake! To little to be a man, and too big to be a mouse! I reckon you're a rat!
Ali Hakim: That's logical.

Gloria Grahame

Gloria Grahame
(as Ado Annie)

Will Parker: Now that I got that fifty dollars, you name the date.
Ado Annie Carnes: August 15th.
Will Parker: Why August 15th?
Ado Annie Carnes: Because that was the first day I'se kissed!
Will Parker: Oh was it? I didn't remember that!
Ado Annie Carnes: You wasn't there.

Charlotte Greenwood

Charlotte Greenwood
(as Aunt Eller)

Aunt Eller Murphy: [with gun in hand] SING! SING! C'mon now! Sing!

Gordon MacRae

Gordon MacRae
(as Curly)

Curly: [to Jud] How did you get to be the way you air
[are]
Curly: anyhow? A-sittin' up here in this filthy hole
[referring to the smokehouse]
Curly: ? Why don't you do something healthy once in a while, instead of staying shut up here, a-crawlin' and a-festerin'?


Gordon MacRae

Gordon MacRae
(as Curly)

Curly: If she liked me any more, she'd sic the dogs on me.

Gloria Grahame

Gloria Grahame
(as Ado Annie)

Ado Annie Carnes: Sometimes there seems like times that men ain't got no need for women.
Dancer: There's sometimes women ain't got no need for men.
Ado Annie Carnes: Yeah, but who wants to be dead?

Eddie Albert

Eddie Albert
(as Ali Hakim)

Ali Hakim: I wanted to marry her when I saw the moonlight shining on the barrel of her father's shotgun.

Eddie Albert

Eddie Albert
(as Ali Hakim)

Ali Hakim: It's a wonderful thing to be married. I got a brother in Persia got six wives.
Ado Annie Carnes: Six wives all at once?
Will Parker: Why, sure. That's the way they do in them countries.
Ali Hakim: Not always; I got a brother in Persia only got one wife. He's a bachelor.

Shirley Jones

Shirley Jones
(as Laurey)

Laurey: Curly! You're sittin' on the stove!
Curly: Yeouch!
[Jumps up, feels the stove]
Curly: Cold as a hunk of ice.
Laurey: Wish it would've burned a hole in your pants.

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