Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

Elizabeth Taylor: Catherine Holly

Photos 

11 more photos

Quotes 

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

• Dr. Cukrowicz : Insane is such a meaningless term.

  Catherine Holly : But lobotomy has a precising meaning to it, doesn't it?

• Mrs. Grace Holly : You'll be fine... after your little operation...

  Catherine Holly : [turns around]  There's only ONE little operation performed here, Mama, it's on the brain! It's called a lobotomy! You may have heard of it, or read about it, I know I have! They bore HOLES into your skull!

• Dr. Cukrowicz : Bait? For what? What were the better fish?

  Catherine Holly : We procured for him.

• Catherine Holly : Cut the truth out of my brain... is that what you want Aunt Vi ? Well you can't. Not even God can change the truth that we were nothing but a pair of-"

  Mrs. Venable : Doctor!

  Catherine Holly : It's the truth!

  Mrs. Venable : See how she destroys us with her tongue for a hatchet? You've got to cut this hideous story out of her brain.

  Catherine Holly : How much are you willing to pay for that Aunt Vi?

• Catherine Holly : Truth is the one thing I've never resisted.

• Catherine Holly : [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?

• Dr. Cukrowicz : Why did you try to kill yourself?

  Catherine Holly : Isn't that what everybody wants? Me out of the way... Mama and George get their money, and Aunt Vi...

• Mrs. Venable : Doctor, you must cut that lie out of her brain.

  Catherine Holly : How MUCH are you willing to pay for that, Aunt Vi?

• Catherine Holly : [about the white bathing suit Sebastian made her wear]  I'd come up from the water looking naked.

• Catherine Holly : Yes, we all use each other and that's what we think of as love, and not being able to use each other is what's - hate...

• [last lines] 

  Catherine Holly : She's here, Doctor. Miss Catherine's here.

• Catherine Holly : Sebastian's garden, I can still cry.