Cat On A Hot Tin Roof Quotes

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?

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

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

Maggie the cat is alive. I’m alive.

Just another four-letter word.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.

I don’t know what love means.

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

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

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

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