A Streetcar Named Desire Quotes
Blanche DuBois: I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
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Blanche DuBois: I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
Mitch: I guess we must strike you as being a pretty rough bunch.
Blanche DuBois: I'm very adaptable to circumstances.
Mitch: I guess we must strike you as being a pretty rough bunch.
Blanche DuBois: I'm very adaptable to circumstances.
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Blanche DuBois: Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable, and the one thing of which I have never,ever been guilty of.
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Blanche DuBois: Marry me, Mitch.
Mitch: No, I don't think I want to marry you anymore... No, you're not clean enough to bring into the house with my mother.
Mitch: No, I don't think I want to marry you anymore... No, you're not clean enough to bring into the house with my mother.
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Stanley Kowalski: She moved to the hotel called Flamingo which is a second class hotel that has the advantages of not interfering with the private and social life of the personalities there. Now the Flamingo is used to all kinds of goings-on. But even the management of the Flamingo was impressed by Dame Blanche. And in fact, they were so impressed that they requested her to turn in her room-key for permanently. And this, this happened a couple of weeks before she showed here... The trouble with Dame Blanche was that she couldn't put on her act any more in Oriel because they got wised up. And after two or three dates, they quit and then she goes on to another one, the same old line, the same old act, and the same old hooey. And as time went by, she became the town character, regarded not just as different but downright loco and nuts. She didn't re. sign temporarily because of her nerves. She was kicked out before the spring term ended. And I hate to tell you the reason that step was taken. A seventeen-year-old kid she got mixed up with - and the boy's dad learned about it and he got in touch with the high-school superintendent. And there was practically a town ordinance passed against her.
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Stanley Kowalski: You know what luck is? Luck is believing you're lucky, that's all... To hold a front position in this rat-race, you've got to believe you are lucky
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Stella: But there are things that happen, between a man and a woman, in the dark, that sorta make everything else seem unimportant
Blanche: What you are talking about is brutal desire. Just desire. The name of that rattletrap streetcar that bangs through the Quarter, up one old narrow street and down another.
Stella: Haven't you ever ridden that streetcar?
Blanche: It brought me here, where I'm not wanted, and where I'm ashamed to be.
Blanche: What you are talking about is brutal desire. Just desire. The name of that rattletrap streetcar that bangs through the Quarter, up one old narrow street and down another.
Stella: Haven't you ever ridden that streetcar?
Blanche: It brought me here, where I'm not wanted, and where I'm ashamed to be.
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Blanche DuBois : Please don't get up.
Stanley Kowalski : Nobody's going to get up, so don't get worried.
Stanley Kowalski : Nobody's going to get up, so don't get worried.
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Blanche DuBois : Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable, and the one thing of which I have never,ever been guilty of.
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Blanche DuBois : But some things are not forgivable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable! It is the one unforgivable thing, in my opinion, and the one thing of which I have never, never been guilty.
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Blanche DuBois : [ telephone rings ] [ rises out of seat ]
Blanche DuBois : That's for me, I'm sure.
Stanley Kowalski : [ pushes her back down roughly ] Just keep your seat, I'm not so sure.
Blanche DuBois : That's for me, I'm sure.
Stanley Kowalski : [ pushes her back down roughly ] Just keep your seat, I'm not so sure.
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Stanley Kowalski : [ to Blanche ] Will you shut up! [ Resumes talking on the phone ]
Stanley Kowalski : No, we got a noisy woman in the place.
Stanley Kowalski : No, we got a noisy woman in the place.
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Blanche DuBois : This old maid, she had a parrot that cursed a blue streak and knew more vulgar expressions than Mr. Kowalski.
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Stanley Kowalski : Hey, toots! Canary bird, will you get out of the bathroom! [ pounds on the door ]
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Blanche DuBois : Young, young man. Did anyone ever tell you you look like a young prince out of the 'Arabian Nights'?
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Blanche DuBois : Oh, Stanley! What sign were you born under?
Stanley Kowalski : What sign?
Blanche DuBois : Astrological sign. I'll bet you were born under Aries. Aries people are forceful, dynamic, they dote on noise. They love to bang things around.
Stella : Stanley was born just five minutes after Christmas.
Blanche DuBois : Capricorn - the goat! [ long silence follows as Stanley stares at Blanche ]
Stanley Kowalski : What sign?
Blanche DuBois : Astrological sign. I'll bet you were born under Aries. Aries people are forceful, dynamic, they dote on noise. They love to bang things around.
Stella : Stanley was born just five minutes after Christmas.
Blanche DuBois : Capricorn - the goat! [ long silence follows as Stanley stares at Blanche ]
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Stella : He smashed all the lightbulbs with the heel of my slipper.
Blanche DuBois : And you let him? Didn't run, didn't scream?
Stella : Actually, I was sorta thrilled by it.
Blanche DuBois : And you let him? Didn't run, didn't scream?
Stella : Actually, I was sorta thrilled by it.
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Mitch : I like you to be exactly the way that you are, because in all my experience, I have never known anyone like you. [ Blanche laughs suddenly ]
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Blanche DuBois : I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
Mitch : I guess we must strike you as being a pretty rough bunch.
Blanche DuBois : I'm very adaptable to circumstances.
Mitch : I guess we must strike you as being a pretty rough bunch.
Blanche DuBois : I'm very adaptable to circumstances.
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Blanche DuBois : Tarantula was the name of it. I stayed at a hotel called the Tarantula Arms.
Mitch : Tarantula Arms?
Blanche DuBois : Yes, a big spider. That's where I brought my victims. Yes, I've had many meetings with strangers.
Mitch : Tarantula Arms?
Blanche DuBois : Yes, a big spider. That's where I brought my victims. Yes, I've had many meetings with strangers.
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Stanley Kowalski : I never met a dame yet that didn't know if she was good-looking or not without being told, and there's some of them that give themselves credit for more than they've got.
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Blanche DuBois : Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
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Blanche DuBois : I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is 50% illusion.
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