Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Quotes

One thing I don’t have is the charm of the defeated

my hat is still in the ring, and I am determined to win!

I feel all the time like

a cat on a hot tin roof!

Because it’s got to be told and you, you! -

never let me! [She sobs, then controls herself, and continues almost calmly]

I never trusted a man that didn’t drink… Why Gooper, don’t you drink?

If I’d known you didn’t drink, I wouldn’t of made that remark -

By locking his liquor up and making him

satisfy my desire before I unlock it!

Oh, you weak people, you weak,

beautiful people! - who give up.

I don’t want to lean on your shoulder,

I want my crutch! [This is spoken like sudden lightning]

You keep forgetting the conditions on which

I agreed to stay on living with you.

Friendship with Skipper was that one great true thing,

and you are naming it dirty!

It was too rare to be normal, any true thing

between two people is too rare to be normal

Mendacity is a system that we live in.

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

A man in love

with his liquor

[smiling with charming sadness]:

Wouldn’t it be funny if that was true?

I shouted and sobbed and

fell right down on my knees!

Something’s not right!

You’re childless and my son drinks!

You put that liquor down, son, your hand was

made fo’ holdin’ somethin’ better than that!

Nothing’s going to be said in Big Daddy’s house

that he cain’t hear if he wants to!

Where’s Brick?

Where is my only son?

I’m his wife, not his widow,

I’m still his wife!

If you gave him a grandson as much like

his son as his son is like Big Daddy!

Big Daddy is famous for

his jokes at Big Mama’s expense

For three years now you’ve been gradually taking over. Bossing. Talking.

Sashaying your fat old body around the place I made! I made this place!

If you don’t like Maggie

get rid of Maggie!

Well, I could, I could write a goddam book on it and

still not cover the subject anywhere enough!!

A spasm of pain makes

him clutch his belly.

You and being a success as a planter is all I ever

had any devotion to in my whole life! - and that’s the truth…

Maggie, honey, if you had children of your own,

you’d know how funny that is.

She’s gonna keep both chins up,

aren’t you, Big Mama?

I guess you must have needed a lot of [understanding] in your family, Maggie,

with your father’s liquor problem and now you’ve got Brick with his!

- May we have his

name please?