Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Quotes

"Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: You've got to.
Brick Pollitt: I don't have to do anything I don't want to! Now, you keep forgetting the conditions on which I agreed to stay on living with you. Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: I'm not living with you! We occupy the same cage, that's all.

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Brick Pollitt: People like doing what they used to do, after they've stopped being able to do it.

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Ida 'Big Momma' Pollitt: When marriage goes on the rocks, the rocks are there. Right there!

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Mae Pollitt: [to Big Mama] Gooper is your first born. Why he always had to carry a bigger load of the resposibilities than Brick? Brick never carried a thing in his life but a football or a high ball.

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Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: Where did I fail you? Where did I make my mistake?

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Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: You know what I feel like? I feel all the time like a cat on a hot tin roof.
Brick Pollitt: Then jump off the roof, Maggie. Jump off it. Cats jump off roofs and land uninjured. Do it. Jump.
Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: Jump where? Into what?

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