Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

About Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“I never saw a more beautiful woman, enormous eyes, skin the color of Devonshire cream.”
— After meeting Anna Magnani, as quoted in Tennessee Williams: Rebellious Puritan (1961) by Nancy Marie Patterson Tischler, p. 175
“Why you're not crippled, you just have a little defect — hardly noticeable, even! When people have some slight disadvantage like that, they cultivate other things to make up for it — develop charm — and vivacity — and — charm!”
— Amanda, Scene Two
“Shakespeare probably wrote a poem on that light bill, Mrs. Wingfield.”
— Jim, Scene Seven
“The tables have turned, yes, the tables have turned with a vengeance! You've come around to my old way of thinking and I to yours like two people exchanging a call on each other at the same time, and each one finding the other one gone out, the door locked against him and no one to answer the bell!”
— Alma, Scene Eleven
“I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage.”
— , Act One
“Yes, we all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.”
— Chris, Scene Six

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