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

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.

I don’t know what love means.

Nothing’s more determined than a 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.

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

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

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

I played Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.