A Streetcar Named Desire Movie Quotes
Stanley
Hey, STELLA!
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Blanche
Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
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Blanche
I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell truths. I tell what ought to be truth.
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Stanley
Now that's how I'm gonna clear the table. Don't you ever talk that way to me. 'Pig,' 'Pollack,' 'disgusting,' 'vulgar,' 'greasy.' Those kind of words have been on your tongue and your sister's tongue just too much around here. What do you think you are? A pair of queens? Now just remember what Huey Long said - that every man's a king - and I'm the King around here, and don't you forget it.
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Blanche
Straight? What's 'straight'? A line can be straight, or a street. But the heart of a human being?
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Blanche
Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable, and the one thing of which I have never,ever been guilty of.
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Stanley
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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Stanley
Take a look at yourself here in a worn-out Mardi Gras outfit, rented for 50 cents from some rag-picker. And with a crazy crown on. Now what kind of a queen do you think you are? Do you know that I've been on to you from the start, and not once did you pull the wool over this boy's eyes? You come in here and you sprinkle the place with powder and you spray perfume and you stick a paper lantern over the light bulb - and, lo and behold, the place has turned to Egypt and you are the Queen of the Nile, sitting on your throne, swilling down my liquor. And do you know what I say? Ha ha! Do you hear me? Ha ha ha!
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Blanche
I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is 50% illusion.
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Stanley
I am not a Pollack. People from Poland are Poles. They are not Pollacks. But what I am is one hundred percent American. I'm born and raised in the greatest country on this earth and I'm proud of it. And don't you ever call me a Pollack.
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Blanche
Oh, Stanley! What sign were you born under?
Stanley
What sign?
Blanche
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
Capricorn - the goat!
[long silence follows as Stanley stares at Blanche]
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Blanche
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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Stanley
Listen, baby, when we first met - you and me - you thought I was common. Well, how right you was. I was common as dirt. You showed me a snapshot of the place with them columns, and I pulled you down off them columns, and you loved it, having them colored lights goin'. And wasn't we happy together? Wasn't it all okay till she showed here? And wasn't we happy together? Wasn't it all OK? Till she showed here. Hoity-toity, describin' me like a ape.
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Blanche
You're married to a madman.
Stella
I wish you'd stop taking it for granted that I'm in something I want to get out of.
Blanche
What you are talking about is desire - just brutal Desire. The name of that rattle-trap streetcar that bangs through the Quarter, up one old narrow street and down another.
Stella
Haven't you ever ridden on that streetcar?
Blanche
It brought me here. Where I'm not wanted and where I'm ashamed to be.
Stella
Don't you think your superior attitude is a little out of place?
Blanche
May I speak plainly?... If you'll forgive me, he's common... He's like an animal. He has an animal's habits. There's even something subhuman about him. Thousands of years have passed him right by, and there he is. Stanley Kowalski, survivor of the Stone Age, bearing the raw meat home from the kill in the jungle. And you - you here waiting for him. Maybe he'll strike you or maybe grunt and kiss you, that's if kisses have been discovered yet. His poker night you call it. This party of apes.
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[first lines]
A Sailor
Can I help you, ma'am?
Blanche
Why, they told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemetery and ride six blocks and get off at Elysian Fields.
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[last lines]
Stanley
Stella! Come on, Stella!
Stella
No, I'm not. I'm not going back in there again, not this time, never going back, never.
Stanley
Hey, Stella! Hey, Stellaaa!
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Stanley
Hey, you hens! Cut out the cackling in there!
Stella
You can't hear us.
Stanley
Well you can hear me, and I told you to hush up.
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Stanley
Hey, Stella!
Eunice
You quit that howling down there and go to bed!
Stanley
Eunice, I want my girl down here!
Eunice
You shut up! You're gonna get the law on you!
Stanley
Hey, Stella!
Eunice
You can't beat on a woman and then call her back, Because she ain't gonna come! And her going to have a baby.
Stanley
Listen, Eunice...
Eunice
I hope they haul you in and turn the fire hose on you like they did last time!
Stanley
Eunice, I want my girl down here!
Eunice
You stinker!
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Stanley
Man, liquor goes fast in the hot weather. You want a shot?
Blanche
No, I rarely touch it.
Stanley
Well, there's some people that rarely touch it, but it touches them often.
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Stella
A rhinestone tiara she wore to a costume ball!
Stella
Next door to glass.
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Stella
He smashed all the lightbulbs with the heel of my slipper.
Blanche
And you let him? Didn't run, didn't scream?
Stella
Actually, I was sorta thrilled by it.
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Stanley
She is as famous in Laurel as if she was the President of the United States, only she is not respected by any party.
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Blanche
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.
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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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Stanley
You think I'm gonna interfere with you?... You know, maybe you wouldn't be bad to interfere with.
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Blanche
Oh look, we have created enchantment.
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Blanche
Young, young man. Did anyone ever tell you you look like a young prince out of the 'Arabian Nights'?
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Stanley
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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[Blance enters into the spare bedroom and closes the curtain. She looks at her suitcase which is in complete disaray then she starts to undress and talks to Stanley who is sitting in the kitchen]
Blanche
I understand there's to be a little card party here tonight to which we ladies are cordially not invited.
Stanley
That's right.
Blanche
Where is Stella?
Stanley
She's out there on the porch.
[Blanche walks over to the window and looks out. Across the street Stella is talking to someone. Blanche starts walking back to the curtain]
Blanche
I'm going to ask a favor of you in a moment.
Stanley
Well, what's that going to be, I wonder?
Blanche
Well, some buttons in back.
[She opens the curtain]
Blanche
You may enter.
[Stanley stands up and walks into the bedroom]
Blanche
How do I look?
Stanley
You look okay.
Blanche
Many thanks. Now the buttons.
[He puts the buttons on Stella's back]
Blanche
You mean with your big clumsy fingers. May I have a drag of your cig?
Stanley
Yeah, have one yourself.
[hands her a cigarette]
Blanche
Why thank you. It... It looks like my trunk has exploded.
Stanley
Me and Stella was helping you unpack.
Stanley
You certainly did a fast and thorough job of it.
Stanley
Well, It certainly looks like you raided some stylish shops of Paris, Blanche.
Blanche
Clothes are my passion.
Stanley
How much does it cost for a string of furs like that?
Blanche
Why, those were a tribute from an admirer of mine.
Stanley
He must have had a lot of admiration.
Blanche
Oh, in my youth I excited some admiration. But, look at me now. Would you think it possible that I was once considered to be attractive?
Stanley
Your looks are okay.
Blanche
I was fishing for a compliment, Stanley.
Stanley
I don't go in for that stuff.
Blanche
What stuff?
Stanley
Compliments to women about their looks. I never met a dame yet that didn't know if she was good-looking or not without being told, and some of them give themselves credit for more than they've got. I once went out with a dame who told me, "I'm the glamorous type," she says, "I am the glamorous type." I say, "So what?"
Blanche
And what did she say then?
Stanley
She didn't say nothing. That shut her up like a clam.
Blanche
Did it end the romance?
Stanley
Well, It ended the conversation, that was all. You know that some men are taken in by all this Hollywood glamour and some men just aren't.
Blanche
I'm sure you belong in the second category.
Stanley
That's right.
Blanche
I cannot imagine any witch of a woman casting a spell over you.
Stanley
That's right.
Blanche
You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to...
Stanley
Have to lay her cards out on the table.
Blanche
Well I never did care for wishy-washy people. That was why when you walked in last night, I said to myself, "my sister has married a man". Of course that was all I could hope to...
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Stanley
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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Mitch
Poker should not be played in a house with women.
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Stanley
Now will you just open your eyes to this stuff here. Now I mean, what - has she got this stuff out of teacher's pay?... Will you look at these fine feathers and furs that she comes to bring herself in here. What is this article? That's a solid gold dress, I believe.
Stella
Oh, honest.
Stanley
This one here. What is this, Fox piece?
Stella
Stanley!
Stanley
A genuine fur fox a half a mile long... Where are your fox pieces? This is bushy snow-white ones, no less. Where are your white fox furs?
Stella
Those are inexpensive summer furs that Blanche has had a long time.
Stanley
Listen, I have an acquaintance who deals in this sort of merchandise and he's coming to make an appraisal.
Stella
Oh, don't be such an idiot, Stanley.
Stanley
Listen, Listen, I'm gonna bet you there's a thousand dollars invested in this stuff. Well, now, what is that? That's the treasure chest of a pirate?
Stella
Oh, Stanley! Would you...?
Stanley
That's pearls, Stella. Ropes of them. What is this sister of yours, a deep-sea diver? Bracelets, solid gold. Where are your pearls and gold bracelets?
Stella
Be still, Stanley.
Stanley
And here you are, Diamonds. A crown for an empress.
Stella
A rhinestone tiara, she wore to a costume ball.
Stanley
What is rhinestone?
Stella
Next to glass.
Stanley
Yeah.
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Stella
[Entering the room]
Stanley! Stanley, you come on outside with me and left Blanche finish dressing!
Blanche
I've finished dressing honey.
Stella
Well you come out then.
Stanley
Your sister and I are having a little talk.
Blanche
Honey, do me a favor. Run to the drug store and get me a lemon coke with chipped ice. Will you do that for me, sweetie, please.
Stella
All right.
[she leaves to the drug store]
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Stella
[talking about her husband, Stanley]
He's on the road a good deal... I can hardly stand it when he's away for a night.
Blanche
Oh, Stella.
Stella
When he's away for a week, I nearly go wild.
Blanche
Gracious.
Stella
When he comes back... I cry in his lap like a baby. I guess that's what's meant by being in love.
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[as Stanley's friends gather to play poker]
Stella
The blind are leading the blind!
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Blanche
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
I'm very adaptable to circumstances.
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[Resumes talking on the phone]
Stanley
No, we got a noisy woman in the place.
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Blanche
Is there something wrong with me?
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Stella
I never listen to you when you're being morbid.
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Blanche
This old maid, she had a parrot that cursed a blue streak and knew more vulgar expressions than Mr. Kowalski.
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Stella
You think you're going bowling now?
Stanley
That's right.
Stella
If you're not going bowling, why'd you do this to her?
Stanley
Let go of my shirt.
Stella
I want to know why. Tell me why?
Stanley
Hey, cool it! Listen, baby, when we first met, you and me, you thought I was common. Well, how right you was. I was common as dirt. You showed me a snapshot of a place with columns and I pulled you down off them columns and you loved it. Having them colored lights going. And wasn't we happy together? Wasn't it all okay till she showed here? Huh? Wasn't we happy together? Wasn't it all okay till she showed here? Hoity-toity, describing me like a ape.
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Blanche DuBois
My, but you have an impressive, judicial air.
Stanley
You know, if I didn't know that you was my wife's sister, I would get ideas about you... Don't play so dumb. You know what.
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Stanley
You're gonna kill who, you dumb jerk? You don't even know when you get wised up. Come on.
Mitch
You don't have to wise me up.
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Stanley
How about a few more details on that subject... Let's cop a gander at the bill of sale... What do you mean? She didn't show you no papers, no deed of sale or nothin' like that?... Well then, what was it then? Given away to charity?... Oh I don't care if she hears me. Now let's see the papers... Now listen. Did you ever hear of the Napoleonic code, Stella?... Now just let me enlighten you on a point or two... Now we got here in the state of Louisiana what's known as the Napoleonic code. You see, now according to that, what belongs to the wife belongs to the husband also, and vice versa... It looks to me like you've been swindled baby. And when you get swindled under Napoleonic code, I get swindled too and I don't like to get swindled... Where's the money if the place was sold?
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Blanche
[Meeting with Stella, shortly after she's arrived in New Orleans]
I bought some nice clothes to meet all your lovely friends in. Well... I'm afraid you won't think they're lovely. Well, anyway, I bought nice clothes and I'll wear them. I guess you're hoping I'll say I'll put up at a hotel. I'm not going to put up at a hotel. I've got to be near you, Stella. I've got to be with people. I can't be alone because... Because as you must have noticed, I... I'm not very well.
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[Blanche turns on the radio and the music begins. She dances]
Steve
What do you say, Mitch?
[Mitch turns to Blanche]
Stanley
Come on, Mitch, are you in?
Mitch
What? No, I'm out!
Blanche
I did. Do you mind?
Stanley
Well, turn it off!
Steve
Come on, will you? Let the girls have their music?
[Stanley goes to their room, angrily and turns off the radio]
Blanche
Stanley!
[He turns to Blanche and goes back to Steve and Pablo at the Poker]
Stanley
There you are. I didn't hear your name it!
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Stanley
Hey, toots! Canary bird, will you get out of the bathroom!
[pounds on the door]
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Stanley
Some canary bird...
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Blanche
Tarantula was the name of it. I stayed at a hotel called the Tarantula Arms.
Mitch
Tarantula Arms?
Blanche
Yes, a big spider. That's where I brought my victims. Yes, I've had many meetings with strangers.
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Stanley
How about cutting the re-bop?
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Mitch
Oh I don't mind you being older than what I thought. But all the rest of it. That pitch about your ideals being so old-fashioned and all the malarkey that you've been dishin' out all summer. Oh, I knew you weren't sixteen anymore. But I was fool enough to believe you was straight."
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Stanley
Tiger, tiger. Drop that bottle top. Drop it.
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Mitch
[turns to Stanley, yells]
Coming!
Blanche
Gracious! What lung power!
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Blanche
I - I - I took the blows... on my face and my body. All of those deaths, the long parade to the graveyard. Father, Mother, Margaret, that dreadful way... You just came home in time for funerals, Stella. And funerals are pretty compared to deaths. How do you think all that sickness and dying was paid for? Death is expensive, Miss Stella. And I, with my pitiful salary at the school... Yes, accuse me. Stand there and stare at me, thinking I let the place go. I let the place go? Where were you? In there with your Polack.
Stella
Blanche, be still. That's enough.
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Blanche
I said I was sorry three times!
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Stella
Would you like some pop?
Blanche
Honey! Pop? Not with my nerves, tonight. Scotch for me.
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Stella
Sure you wouldn't like another
[drink]
Stella
?
Blanche
Well... Well... Maybe I will take just one tiny nip more just to put the stopper on sort of speak. Now, now, don't get worried. Your sister hasn't turned into a drunkard. She's just all shaken up, and... hardened, dirty... and tired.
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Stanley
Hello... Yeah, Mac... What?
Blanche
Take your hands off me, Stella. What's the matter with you?
[turns back to the phone]
Stanley
No, we got a noisy woman in place... Look, I told you I don't want to bowl at Riley's. I had a little trouble with Riley last week. I'm the team captain, ain't I? All right. Then we're not gonna bowl at Riley's. We're gonna bowl at the West Side or at the Gate, and I'll see you.
[hangs up the phone]
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Stanley
Man, liquor goes fast in the hot weather. You want a shot?
Blanche
No, I rarely touch it.
Stanley
Well, there's some people that really touch it, but it touches them often.
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Stanley
Hey, you hens! Cut out that cackling in there.
Stella
You can't hear us...
Stanley
Well you can hear me, I told you to hush up!
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Stanley
Be comfortable. That's my motto up where I come from. You gonna shack up here? Well, I guess I'm gonna strike you as being the unrefined type, huh?
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Stella
Mr. Kowalski is too busy making a pig of himself... Your face and your fingers are disgustingly greasy.
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