Suddenly, Last Summer (film)

"Is that what love is? Using people? And maybe that's what hate is - not being able to use people."

"Truth is the one thing I've never resisted."

"[being sedated] Who was it that said we were all a bunch of kindergarteners trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks?"

"I've buried a husband and a son. I'm a widow and a... Funny, there's no word. Lose your parents, you're an orphan. Lose your only son and you are... Nothing."

"Strictly speaking, his life was his occupation. Yes, yes, Sebastian was a poet. That's what I meant when I said his life was his work because the work of a poet is the life of a poet, and vice versa, the life of a poet is the work of a poet. I mean, you can't separate them. I mean, a poet's life is his work, and his work is his life in a special sense."

"Most people's lives, what are they but trails of debris - each day more debris, more debris... long, long trails of debris, with nothing to clean it all up but death."

"Sebastian said, 'Truth is the bottom of a bottomless well.'"

"My son, Sebastian and I constructed our days. Each day we would carve each day like a piece of sculpture, leaving behind us a trail of days like a gallery of sculpture until suddenly, last summer."

"Nature is not made in the image of man's compassion."

"Katharine Hepburn — Mrs. Venable"

"Elizabeth Taylor — Catherine Holly"

"Montgomery Clift — Dr. Cukrowicz"

"Albert Dekker — Dr. Lawrence J. Hockstader"

"Mercedes McCambridge — Mrs. Grace Holly"

"Gary Raymond — George Holly"

"Mavis Villiers — Miss Foxhill"

"Patricia Marmont — Nurse Benson"

"Joan Young — Sister Felicity"

"Maria Britneva — Lucy"

"Sheila Robbins — Dr. Hockstader's Secretary"