Cat On A Hot Tin Roof Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

Maggie the cat is alive. I’m alive.

Just another four-letter word.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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?