Cal Trask: 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.

- James Dean (as Cal Trask) in East of Eden (1955)

Cal Trask: Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.

- James Dean (as Cal Trask) in East of Eden (1955)

Kate: [after Cal asks why she shot his father] Because he tried to hold me, he tried to tie me down! Nobody holds me!

- Jo Van Fleet (as Kate) in East of Eden (1955)

Abra: 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.

- Julie Harris (as Abra) in East of Eden (1955)

Abra: I love you even though I'm afraid of you. Maybe someday I won't be.

- Julie Harris (as Abra) in East of Eden (1955)

Adam Trask: (refusing Cal's gift of money) If you want to give me a present, give me a good life. That's something I can value.

- Raymond Massey (as Adam Trask) in East of Eden (1955)

Abra: 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.

- Julie Harris (as Abra) in East of Eden (1955)