Cats Quotes

  • Old Deuteronomy: I judge a cat by its soul.

    Macavity: [to Old Deuteronomy] I've got plenty of soul!

  • Rum Tum Tugger: It's party time!

  • Jennyanydots: Don't mess with the crazy cat-lady!

  • Bustopher Jones: [from trailer] Here we go!

  • Old Deuteronomy: Come. We're about to begin.

  • Mr. Mistoffelees: I'm a magic cat.

  • Victoria: Sing.

  • Rum Tum Tugger: Let's dance!

  • Mr. Mistoffelees: [from trailer] Cross paws.

  • Victoria: Who is Macavity?

  • Jennyanydots: And now for the icing on the cake!

  • Rum Tum Tugger: It's party time! With your permission.

    Old Deuteronomy: Of course.

  • Old Deuteronomy: [when Macavity asks her to choose him for the Heaviside Layer] Never!

  • Macavity: Now it is time to make the choice.

  • [last lines]

    Old Deuteronomy: [to Victoria] I believe you truly are a Jellicle cat, a dellicle cat.

  • Old Deuteronomy: Anything is possible.

  • Grizabella: Touch me! It's so easy to leave me! All alone with the memory of my days in the sun. If you touch me, you'll understand what happiness is! Look, a new day has begun.

  • Bustopher Jones: I'm Bustopher Jones. I'm not skin and bones. In fact, I'm remarkably fat. I don't haunt pubs, I have eight or nine clubs, for I'm the St. James' street cat.

  • Victoria: But the memories were lost long ago. So I'll dance with these beautiful ghosts.

  • RumpleteazerMungojerrie: Then the family would say, "It's that horrible cat!"

    Rumpleteazer: It was Mungojerrie!

    Mungojerrie: Or Rumpleteazer!

    RumpleteazerMungojerrie: And most of the time, they leave it at that.

  • Old Deuteronomy: So first your memory I'll jog, and say a cat is NOT a dog.

  • Macavity: [last words] Heaviside Layer, here I come--!

    [he slips off the rope and falls onto Nelson's Column. He then tries to use his magic to disappear, but nothing happens; he sits there in defeat as Grizabella flies to the Heaviside Layer, looking back at him with a triumphant smile; signifying she deserves a better life more than him]

  • Bustopher Jones: [Maitre D' jumps on the board, but is not strong enough to launch Bustopher to the drones] Right, well, that's not going to work, is it? Okay? Look at you, and look at me, and you know, you KNOW that I'm sensitive about my size, okay? And, yet, you embarrass me, you--

    [hisses]

    Bustopher Jones: That's what I say to you!

    [hisses]

    Bustopher Jones: Okay, now listen, you'll never get me up there on your own, so let's gather up a few more of the cats, and we'll try again, shall we?

  • Bustopher Jones: Good evening, all.

    Jennyanydots: Oh no. Look what the cat dragged in.

    Bustopher Jones: You look absolutely starving. You can't attend the ball on an empty stomach.

  • Rum Tum Tugger: MILK!