Wouldja look at all this stuff? Bought most of it when I took your mother to Europe on...

Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: Wouldja look at all this stuff? Bought most of it when I took your mother to Europe on that Cook's Tour. Never had such a lousy time in my life. I tell you that Europe ain't nothin' but a wore-out auction, just a great big fire sale, the whole rotten thing. Boy, Big Mama just wild in it, and she just bought and bought and bought. Sure is lucky I'm a rich man, yes, sirree, sure is lucky. Got any idea how much I'm worth, son? Ask Gooper. He knows. He knows to the penny 'less I missed my guess. Close on ten million dollars in cash and blue chip stocks besides twenty-eight thousand of the richest acres this side of the Valley Nile. Brick: Well, that is pretty rich to be. Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: But, there's one thing you can't buy at any European fire sale, [clears cobwebs from broken clock] Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: or any other market on Earth. That's your life. You can't buy back your life when it's finished. Brick: No, sir, no-one can. Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: Feelin' sorry for me, or for you? Brick: For you, Papa. Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: That's good, 'cause you're gonna miss me, boy.

I'm going to open up all these boxes. Will you look at this stuff? Bought most of it when I took your mother to Europe on that Cook's tour. Never had such a lousy time in my life. Now that Europe is nothing but a great big auction. Bunch of old worn-out places, a great, big fire sale, the whole rotten thing. And Big Momma went wild in it. Boy! She just bought and bought. Sure is lucky I'm a rich man. Yes, sirree, it sure is lucky. Got any idea what I'm worth, son? Ask Gooper. He knows. He knows to the penny unless I miss my guess. Close on $10 million in cash and blue-chip stocks, besides 28,000 acres of the richest land this side of the Valley Nile. Well, that is pretty rich to be. There's one thing you can't buy in a Europe fire sale, or any other market on earth. That's your life. Can't buy back your life when it's finished. No, sir, nobody can do that. Feeling sorry for me or for you? For you, Papa. That's good. Because you're going to miss me, boy. Why'd you let Ma buy all this stuff? The human animal is a beast that eventually has to die. If he's got money, he buys and he buys. The reason why he buys everything he can is because of a crazy hope that one of the things he buys will be life everlasting, which it never can be. I suddenly noticed that you don't call me Big Daddy anymore. If you needed a Big Daddy, why didn't you come to me? You wanted somebody to lean on, why Skipper? Why not me? I'm your father. I'm Big Daddy, me. Why didn't you come to your kinfolk, to people that love you? You don't know what love means. To you it's just another four-letter word. You got a mighty short memory. What was it that you wanted that I didn't buy for you? You can't buy love! You bought yourself a million dollars worth of junk! Look at it, does it love you? Who'd you think I bought it for, me? It's yours. The place, the money, every rotten thing yours! I don't want things! But we drew this, uh... - I said we drew this up with the advice... - Get out of the way. - Get out of my way. - We're settling this first. - I don't want to see it. - It's a plan. A preliminary. Waste! Worthless!