Cat On A Hot Tin Roof Quotes

When I was a kid I used to go to the movies, double features in outdoor theaters, and my parents used to take us to see like, 'Cat On a Hot Tin Roof' or something like that, with Elizabeth Taylor.

While you might see a cat on a hot tin roof, a dog on a hot tin roof would be yowling its head off.

Like a cat on a hot tin roof.

Just another four-letter word.

I don't know what love means.

Maggie the cat is alive. I'm alive.

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.

Of course you always had that detached quality as if you were playing a game without much concern over whether you won or lost, and now that you've lost the game, not lost but just quit playing, you have that rare sort of charm that usually only happens in very old or hopelessly sick people, the charm of the defeated.

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.

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

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

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

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

What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? - I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.

I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)

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

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

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

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?

Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you

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.

The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.

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

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!