Cat On A Hot Tin Roof Quotes:

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

- Tennessee Williams

topic: Way, Bricks, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Mendacity

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

- Tennessee Williams

source: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof act 1 (1955)

topic: Cages, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Maggie

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

- Tennessee Williams

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Life, Want, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

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

- Tennessee Williams

source: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) act 2

topic: Way, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Liquor, Mendacity

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...

- Tennessee Williams

topic: Cat, Long, Victory, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Tin Tin

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

- Tennessee Williams

source: Tennessee Williams (1986). “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, p.81, Dramatists Play Service Inc

topic: Beautiful, Giving Up, People, Beautiful People, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

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

- Tennessee Williams

topic: History, Suffering, Looks, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, World Suffering

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

- Paul Newman

topic: People, Able, Aging, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

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?

- Tennessee Williams

topic: Beautiful, Letting Go, Giving Up, Beautiful People, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

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

- Tennessee Williams

source: Tennessee Williams (1991). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.88, New Directions Publishing

topic: Death, Animal, Giving, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

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.

- Tennessee Williams

source: Tennessee Williams (1991). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.78, New Directions Publishing

topic: Hate, Love You, Years, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

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

- Tennessee Williams

source: Tennessee Williams (2004). “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, p.55, New Directions Publishing

topic: Funny, Life, Motivational, Funny Retirement, Old Money

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.

- Burl Ives

topic: Death, Crazy, Animal, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

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.

- Tennessee Williams

topic: Games, Sick, People, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

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.

- Tennessee Williams

source: Tennessee Williams (2004). “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, p.161, New Directions Publishing

topic: Tin, Half, Time Goes By, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

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

- Tennessee Williams

topic: Liars, Lying, Doors, Lies And Liars, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

Maggie the cat is alive. I'm alive.

- Elizabeth Taylor

source: "Fictional character: Maggie Pollitt". "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", www.imdb.com. 1958.

topic: Cat, Alive, Maggie, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

I don't know what love means.

- Imogen Cunningham

topic: Mean, Love Means, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

Just another four-letter word.

- Tennessee Williams

topic: Love, Four, Letters, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Four Letter Words

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

- Tennessee Williams

topic: Lonely, Loneliness, Selfish, I Am Selfish, Selfish Person

Like a cat on a hot tin roof.

- Tennessee Williams

source: "Fictional character: Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt". "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", www.imdb.com. 1958.

topic: Cat, Hot, Tin, 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!

- Tennessee Williams

source: "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof".

topic: Drinking, Light, Alcohol, 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.

- Margo Martindale

source: "Margo Martindale: A 'Justified' Moonshine Matriarch". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 12, 2011.

topic: Cat, Years, Hot, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Big Mama

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

- Bruce Fogle

topic: Dog, Cat, Hot, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

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.

- Michael Biehn

topic: Cat, Kids, Parent, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof