58 quotes found
"Truth! Truth! Everybody keeps hollerin' about the truth. Well, the truth is as dirty as lies."
"Mendacity. What do you know about mendacity? I could write a book on it...Mendacity. Look at all the lies that I got to put up with. Pretenses. Hypocrisy. Pretendin' like I care for Big Mama, I haven't been able to stand that woman in forty years. Church! It bores me. But I go. And all those swindlin' lodges and social clubs and money-grabbin' auxiliaries. It's-it's got me on the number one sucker list. Boy, I've lived with mendacity. Now why can't you live with it? You've got to live with it. There's nothin' to live with but mendacity. Is there?"
"But there's one thing you can't buy in a Europe firesale or in any other market on earth. And that's your life. You can't buy back your life when it's finished... The human animal is a beast that eventually has to die. And if he's got money, he buys and he buys and he buys. The reason why he buys everything he can is because his crazy hope is one of the things he buys will be life everlasting — which it never can be."
"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."
"This is Maggie the Cat..."
"Every sultry moment of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize Play is now on the screen!"
"Elizabeth Taylor - Maggie The Cat"
"Paul Newman - Brick Pollitt"
"Burl Ives - Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt"
"Jack Carson - Gooper Pollitt"
"Judith Anderson - Ida 'Big Mama' Pollitt"
"Madeleine Sherwood - Mae Flynn Pollitt"
"Larry Gates - Dr. Baugh"
"Vaughn Taylor - Deacon Davis"
"What, the Army couldn't afford drapes? I mean, I'll be up at the crack of dawn here!"
"Has anyone ever died from basic?"
"[After being issued with an Army uniform] Excuse me, sir, is green the only color these come in?"
"Goldie Hawn - Pvt. Judy Benjamin"
"Eileen Brennan - Capt. Doreen Lewis"
"Armand Assante - Henri Alan Tremont"
"Robert Webber - Col. Clay Thornbush"
"Sam Wanamaker - Teddie Benjamin"
"Barbara Barrie - Harriet Benjamin"
"Mary Kay Place - Pvt./2LT. Mary Lou Glass"
"Harry Dean Stanton - 1Sgt. Jim Ballard"
"Albert Brooks - Yale Goodman"
"Alan Oppenheimer - Rabbi"
"Lee Wallace - Mr. Waxman"
"Hal Williams - Sgt. L.C. Ross"
"P. J. Soles - Pvt. Wanda Winter"
"Craig T. Nelson - Capt. William Woodbridge"
"Never mind what I told you! You do as I tell you!"
"I like women as I like elephants, I like to look at 'em but I wouldn't own one."
"Even a dead fish can float downstream."
"Whilst travelling through the Andes mountains, we lost our corkscrew. Had to live on food and water for several days!"
"Bing Crosby - Tom Grayson"
"W. C. Fields - Commodore Jackson"
"Joan Bennett - Lucy Rumford"
"Queenie Smith - Alabam'"
"Gail Patrick - Elvira Rumford"
"Claude Gillingwater Sr. - General Rumford"
"John Miljan - Major Patterson"
"Edward Pawley - Joe Patterson"
"Fred Kohler - Captain Blackie"
"Five Cabin Kids - the Cabin Kids"
"John Larkin - Rumbo"
"Libby Taylor - Lavinia"
"Teresa Maxwell-Conover - Miss Markham"
"Paul Hurst - Hefty"
"Why in childhood and youth do we wish time to pass so quickly - we want to grow up so fast - yet as adults we wish just the opposite?"
"In my life I find that memories of the spirit linger and sweeten long after memories of the brain have faded."
"Like all dogs, Skip was colorblind. He made friends easily with people of all races and origins. The town was segregated back then, but as we know, dogs are a whole lot smarter than people."
"Frankie Muniz as Willie Morris"
"Diane Lane as Ellen Morris"
"Luke Wilson as Dink Jenkins"
"Kevin Bacon as Jack Morris"
"[last lines] Oh well. We almost had a romantic ending!"
"Why did you dunk my poor old hide in Old Man River, when I bought a loge seat?"