Cat On A Hot Tin Roof Quotes

I’ve got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?

Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.

Switch clicking off in my head, turning the hot light off and the cool night on and — [He looks up, smiling sadly.] — all of a sudden there’s—peace!

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?

I played Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.

Mendacity is a system that we live in,” declares Brick. “Liquor is one way out an’death’s the other.

Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.

Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

People like to do what they used to do after they’ve stopped being able to do it.

Liquor is one way out an’ death’s the other.

In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.

The human animal is a beast that eventually has to die. If he’s got money, he buys and he buys and he buys. The reason he buys everything he can is because of some crazy hope that one of the things he buys will be life everlasting.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.