Our own personal tin roof

Diálogos y frases tomadas de Cat on the tin roof

Padre e hijo

(I just love Paul Newman's eyes)

1

Father: Mendacity is a system we live in... [Mendacity has a] powerfully, obnoxious odor[. It] smells like death.

2

Father: I hate apologies, especially for the truth. Whatever you did, don't apologize [for it]. Just don't do it again. If you didn't do it, start doing it [...] Truth is desperate.

3

Father: Europe is nothing but a big auction. Bunch of old worn out places. It's just a big fire sale[:] there's one thing you can't buy ina Europe fire sale, or any other market on earth. That's your life. You can't buy back your life when it's finished.

Son: No, sir, nobody can do that.

Father: The human animal is a beast that eventually has todie. If he's got money he just buys and buys. The reason is because of a crazy hope that one of these things will be life everlasting, which it never can be

4

Father: What did I not buy you?

Son: You can't buy love. You bought yourself a million dollars worth of junk! Does it love you? I didn't want to own or to have anything. All I wanted is a father, not a boss. I wanted you to love me.

5

Father: You don't build an Empire by remembering faces...

Son: The men who build empires die and empires die too.

6

Son: We've known each other all my life and [yet] we are strangers.

7

Father: When you've got pain you know you are alive [...] It's better to judge yourself, a lot of things.

8

Father: I've got the guts to die. Have you [got] the guts to live?

Son: I don't know

Father: We can try.

Son: A family crisis brings out the best and the worst in every member.

La verdad para siempre, Liz Taylor

(The greatest Southern cat ever to be played on screen)

Cat: Truth! Everybody keeps hollering about the truth! The truth is as dirty as lies!