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?

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.

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

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

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.

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

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!

Just another four-letter word.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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