Brick Quotes Flashcards
A tone of politely feigned interest…
…masking indifference or worse” Act 1
Give 2 stage directions to show bricks lack of interaction with Maggie in Act 1
“Without interest”
“Absently”
“He has the additional charm of that cool…
…air of detachment” Act 1
What school did Brick break his ankle at?
Glorious Hill high school
“He is not looking at her…
…but into fading gold space”
“That detached quality as if you were playing a game…
…without much concern over whether you won or lost” Act 1
“The charm…
…of the defeated” Act 1
“You look so cool…
…so cool, so enviably cool” Act 1
“I don’t want to lean on your shoulder…
…I want my crutch” Act 1
“A sign of nerves…
…in a player on the defensive” Act 1
“Doesn’t hurt…
…just itches” Act 1
“Seizes a small boudoir chair and raises it like…
…a lion tamer facing a big circus cat” Act 1
“Brick hobbles rapidly to the bathroom…
…and kicks the door shut” Act 1
“Oh yeah Sonny Boy Maxwell…
…he was a good-end runner” Act 1
“Maggie shut up…
…about Skipper” Act 1
“Skipper and I made love…
…because it made both of us feel a little bit closer to you” Act 1
“Don’t you know I could kill you…
…with this crutch” Act 1
“You organised the Dixie Stars…
…you could keep on being’ team-mates for ever” Act 1
“Brick strikes at her with his crutch…
…a blow that shatters the gemlike lamp” Act 1
“People like to do what they used to do…
…even after they’ve stopped being able to do it” Act 1
“Brick has switched on…
…the TV set” Act 2
“She kisses Brick on the mouth…
…which he immediately wipes with the back of his hand” Act 2
“You know what I like to hear most?…
…Solid quiet. Perfect unbroken quiet” Act 2
“Communication is -…
…awful hard between people” Act 2
“A click that I get in my head…
…that makes me peaceful” Act 2
“you talk…
…in - circles!” Act 2
“Big Daddy…
…I’m in pain” Act 2
“Not her…
…That wouldn’t matter” Act 2
“No sir…
…I don’t care” Act 2
“A drinking man’s someone…
…who wants to forget he isn’t still young am’ believing” Act 2
“Brick’s rapid gobble away from his father’s…
…steady, grave attention” Act 2
“Stopping short downstage as if…
…backed to a wall” Act 2
“How many others thought…
…Skipper and I were-“ Act 2
“Brick wheels on his crutch…
…and hurls his glass across the room” Act 2
“Brick is transformed…
…as if a quiet mountain blew suddenly up in volcanic flame” Act 2
“Maybe that’s why you put Maggie and me in this room…
…in which that pair of old sisters slept in a double bed” Act 2
“You think me an’ Skipper…
…did, did, did! - sodomy! - together?” Act 2
“-ducking sissies?…
…Queers?” Act 2
“Naw I don’t want…
…your hand” Act 2
“He turns…
…away from his father” Act 2
When they discovered a pledge to our fraternity…
…did a, attempted, to do a, unnatural thing with” Act 2
“Why can’t exceptional friendship…
…real, real, deep, deep friendship!” Act 2
“Something clean…
…and decent” Act 2
“We gauge the wife and profound reach of the conventional mores…
…he got from the world that crowned him with early laurel” Act 2
“Frig Mae and Gooper…
…frig all dirty lies and liars” Act 2
“A broken…
…tragically elegant figure” Act 2
“His truth…
…not mine!” Act 2
“Mendacity is a system that we live in…
…Liquor is one way out an’ death’s the other” Act 2
“Brick sings to…
…the moon on the gallery” Act 3
“Everybody looking at Brick as…
…as everybody has always looked at Brick” Act 3
“I’m a restless cripple…
…I got to stay on my crutch” Act 3
“He never carried a thing in his life…
…but a football or a highball” Act 3
“As he prepares a drink…
…he sings softly” Act 3
“He draws aside…
…as he does from all physical contact” Act 3
“Brick has turned on…
…the phonograph” Act 3
“No put in on the sofa…
…where I sleep” Act 3
“How are you gonna conceive a child by a man…
…in love with his liquor?” Act 3
“He averts his face…
…from her sobbing kisses” Act 3
“Wouldn’t it be funny…
…if that was true?” Act 3
