Dr. Baugh: Sometimes I wish I had a pill to make people disappear.

- Larry Gates (as Dr. Baugh) in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

Gooper Pollitt: I don't give a damn whether Big Daddy likes me, or don't likes me. Or did or never did. Or will or will never.

- Jack Carson (as Gooper Pollitt) in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

Gooper Pollitt: You said I never loved Big Daddy. How would you know? How would he know? Did he ever let anybody love him? It was always Brick, always. From the day he was born, he was always partial to Brick. Why? Big Daddy wanted me to become a lawyer. I became a lawyer. He said to get married, I got married. He said to have kids, I had kids. He said to live in Memphis, I lived in Memphis. Whatever he said to do, I did.

- Jack Carson (as Gooper Pollitt) in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

Mae Pollitt: Gooper?
[calling his name inquisitively]
Mae Pollitt: What have all the chil'ens been shot for?
Gooper Pollitt: Everything 'cept shootin' chickens, I guess.

- Jack Carson (as Gooper Pollitt) in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

Brick Pollitt: Big Daddy... What is it that makes him so big? His big heart, his big belly, or his big money?

- Paul Newman (as Brick Pollitt) in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

Brick Pollitt: But, how in hell on earth can you imagine you're gonna have a child with a man who cannot stand you.

- Paul Newman (as Brick Pollitt) in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

Brick Pollitt: Careful Maggie, your claws are showing.

- Paul Newman (as Brick Pollitt) in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

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

- Paul Newman (as Brick Pollitt) in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)