A scene from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958
Maggie

Why are you looking at me like that?

Brick

Like what, Maggie?

Maggie

Like you were just lookin'.

Brick

I wasn't conscious of lookin' at you, Maggie.

Maggie

[seductively]

I was conscious of it. [He coldly turns from her and rises on his crutches] If you were thinkin' the same thing I was...

Brick

No, Maggie.

Maggie

Why not?!

Brick

Will you please keep your voice down?

Maggie

No! I know you better than you think. I've seen that look before. And I know what it used to mean. And it still means the same thing now.

Brick

You're not the same woman now, Maggie.

Maggie

Oh, don't you think I know that? Don't you think I know that...

Brick

[cooly detached]

Know what, Maggie?

Maggie

That I've gone through this horrible transformation, that I've become hard and frantic and cruel...Oh Brick, I get so lonely.

Brick

Everybody gets that.

Maggie

Living with somebody you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone - if the one you love doesn't love you.

Brick

...Would you like to live alone, Maggie?

Maggie

No! No, I wouldn't.

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