Big Daddy Quotes

“You told me! I told you!”

“She had a naked child with her, a little naked girl, barely able to toddle, and after a while she set this child on the ground and give her a push and whispered something to her. This child come toward me, barely able t’walk, come toddling up to me and—Jesus, it makes you sick t’remember a thing like this! It stuck out its hand and tried to unbutton my trousers!”

“You been passing the buck. This disgust with mendacity is disgust with yourself. You!—you dug the grave of your friend and kicked him in it!—before you’d face the truth with him!”

″ The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others. ”

“When we talk ... nothing is said. ... Communication is awful hard between people. ”

“Born poor, raised poor, expect to die poor unless I manage to get us something out of what Big Daddy leaves when he dies of cancer!”

“I think the reason he buys everything he can buy is that in the back of his mind he has the crazy hopes that one of his purchases will be life everlasting!—Which it never can be.”

“I—want to—knowwwww! ... Somebody must be lyin’! I want to know!”

“And I did, I did so much, I did love you!—I even loved your hate and your hardness, Big Daddy!”