Yep, they're no-neck monsters, all no-neck people are monsters.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Maggie cattily calls Gooper and Mae's brood
this at beginning of Act I. |
You look so cool, so cool, so enviably cool.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Maggie mournfully remarks on Brick's inaccessibility,
Act I. |
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.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Maggie compares herself to a cat, Act 1. |
Silence about a thing just magnifies it.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Maggie talking to Brick about his friendship
with Skipper, Act 1. |
I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Maggie snaps at Brick, Act 1. |
When a marriage goes on the rocks, the rocks are there, right
there!
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Big Mama, pointing at the bed, Act 1. |
You can be young without money, but you can't be old without
it.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Maggie explains why she is determined to
ensure that Brick inherits the plantation on Big Daddy's death,
Act 1. |
One man has one great good true thing in his life. One great
good thing which is true! I had friendship with Skipper. You
are namin' it dirty!
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Brick threatens Maggie with his crutch,
Act 1. |
STOP LOVIN' MY HUSBAND OR TELL HIM HE'S GOT TO LET YOU ADMIT
IT TO HIM!
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Maggie tells Brick how she challenged Skipper
with this, one drunken night that culminated in a botched affair,
Act 1. |
Skipper is dead! I’m alive! Maggie the cat is alive!
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Maggie to Brick as he tries to strike her
with his crutch, Act 1. |
BRICK: Well, they say nature hates a vacuum, Big Daddy.
BIG DADDY: That's what they say, but sometimes I think that
a vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that
nature relaces it with.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Act 2. |
Life is important. There's nothing else to hold onto.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Big Daddy gives his advice to Brick, Act
2. |
The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he's
dying don't give him pity for others, no sir.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Big Daddy's observation about life, Act
2. |
Hell, you got to live with it, there's nothing else to live
with except mendacity, is there?
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Big Daddy responds to Brick's disgust with
mendacity, Act 2. |
Time just outran me, Big Daddy, got there first.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Brick explains his frustration at no longer
being able to play football, Act 2. |
One thing you can grow on a big place more important than
cotton! — is tolerance! — I grown it.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Big Daddy explains his tolerant view of
homosexuality, Act 2. |
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.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Big Daddy, Act 2. |
You been passing the buck. This disgust with mendacity is
disgust with yourself. You! — you dug the grave of your
friend and kicked him in it! — before you'd face the truth
with him!
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Big Daddy to Brick, who is disgusted with
his own mendacity before the homosexual desire in his friendship
with Skipper. He dug his friend's grave rather than face the
truth. Act 2. |
You told me! I told you!
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Brick to Big Daddy, Act 2. Big Daddy forces
Brick to face the truth of the homosexual desire in his relationship
with Skipper. Brick in turn has disclosed to Big Daddy about
his impending death from cancer. |
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out
an’ death’s the other.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Brick to Big Daddy, Act 2. |
Brick never carried a thing in his life but a football or
a highball.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Mae about Brick, to Big Mama, Act 3. |
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.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Big Mama finally acknowledges the inevitable
about Big Daddy's terminal cancer, Act 3. |
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