"Life, every now and then, behaves as though it had seen too many bad movies, when everything fits too well - the beginning, the middle, the end - from fade-in to fade-out."

"Diana Decker - Drunken Blonde"

"Elizabeth Sellars - Jerry Dawes"

"Marius Goring - Alberto Bravano"

"Ava Gardner - Maria Vargas"

"Humphrey Bogart - Harry Dawes"

"To make a hundred dollars into a hundred and ten dollars - this is work. To make a hundred million into a hundred and ten million, this is inevitable."

"Madeleine Sherwood - Mae Flynn Pollitt"

"Vaughn Taylor - Deacon Davis"

"Larry Gates - Dr. Baugh"

"Judith Anderson - Ida 'Big Mama' Pollitt"

"Jack Carson - Gooper Pollitt"

"Burl Ives - Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt"

"Paul Newman - Brick Pollitt"

"Elizabeth Taylor - Maggie The Cat"

"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?"

"Truth! Truth! Everybody keeps hollerin' about the truth. Well, the truth is as dirty as lies."

"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."

"Every sultry moment of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize Play is now on the screen!"

"This is Maggie the Cat..."

"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."

"Cary Grant - John Robie"

"Palaces are for royalty. We're just common people with a bank account."

"[to Francie, about Robie] I wouldn't mind buying that for you.."

"Georgette Anys - Germaine"

"Jean Martinelli - Foussard"

"Brigitte Auber - Danielle Foussard"

"Charles Vanel - Bertani"

"John Williams - H. H. Hughson"

"[to Robie] You've got a very strong grip - the kind a burglar needs."

"Jessie Royce Landis - Jessie Stevens"

"Grace Kelly - Francie Stevens"

"Wanted by the police in all the luxury-spots of Europe!... A catch for any woman!"

"For a moment he forgets he's a thief—and she forgets she's a lady!"

"Norma Varden - Lady Beekman"

"George Winslow - Henry Spofford III"

"Taylor Holmes - Mr. Esmond Sr."

"Tommy Noonan - Gus Esmond"

"Elliott Reid - Ernie Malone"

"Charles Coburn - Sir Francis "Piggy" Beekman"

"Marilyn Monroe - Lorelei Lee"

"Jane Russell - Dorothy Shaw"

"There was an old man named Sidney... Who drank till he ruined a kidney. It shriveled and shrank, but he drank and he drank... He had his fun doing it, didn't he?"

"I want you to find happiness and stop having fun."

"Remember honey, on your wedding day it's all right to say "yes"."

"The child is impertinent."

"George Barrows - Ro-Man the Monster/Great Guidance"

"Pamela Paulson - Carla"

"Gregory Moffett - Johnny"

"John Mylong - The Professor"