Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (film) Quotes
1958 films, 1950s American films, Drama films, Films based on plays, Films about alcoholism, Films set in Mississippi, Films directed by Richard Brooks, Southern Gothic films
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“This is Maggie the Cat...”
“Paul Newman - Brick Pollitt”
“Elizabeth Taylor - Maggie The Cat”
“Every sultry moment of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize Play is now on the screen!”
“Truth! Truth! Everybody keeps hollerin' about the truth. Well, the truth is as dirty as lies.”
“Larry Gates - Dr. Baugh”
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“Jack Carson - Gooper Pollitt”
“Burl Ives - Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt”
“Vaughn Taylor - Deacon Davis”
“Judith Anderson - Ida 'Big Mama' Pollitt”
“Madeleine Sherwood - Mae Flynn Pollitt”
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“What's that smell in this room? Didn't you notice it, Brick? Didn't you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room?... There ain't nothin' more powerful than the odor of mendacity... You can smell it. It smells like death.”
“But there's one thing you can't buy in a Europe firesale or in any other market on earth. And that's your life. You can't buy back your life when it's finished... The human animal is a beast that eventually has to die. And if he's got money, he buys and he buys and he buys. The reason why he buys everything he can is because his crazy hope is one of the things he buys will be life everlasting — which it never can be.”
“Mendacity. What do you know about mendacity? I could write a book on it...Mendacity. Look at all the lies that I got to put up with. Pretenses. Hypocrisy. Pretendin' like I care for Big Mama, I haven't been able to stand that woman in forty years. Church! It bores me. But I go. And all those swindlin' lodges and social clubs and money-grabbin' auxiliaries. It's-it's got me on the number one sucker list. Boy, I've lived with mendacity. Now why can't you live with it? You've got to live with it. There's nothin' to live with but mendacity. Is there?”