Streetcar Quotes

I can’t… (Blanche)

stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action

Poker should… (Mitch)

not be played in a house with women

I’m not in… (Stella)

anything I want to get out of

But there…(Stella)

are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark - that sort of make everything else seem - unimportant

Soft people… (Blanche)

have got to shimmer and glow... It isn't enough to be soft. You've got to be soft and attractive. And I - I'm fading now! I don't know how much longer I can turn the trick.

I don’t want…(Blanche)

realism. I want magic!

I couldn’t… (Stella)

believe her story and go on living with Stanley

You’re not… (Mitch)

clean enough to bring in a house with my mother

Hey… (Stanley)

canary bird! Toots! Get out of the bathroom!

One hundred… (Stanley)

percent American, born and raised in the greatest country on earth and proud as hell of it

I have… (Blanche)

always depended on the kindness of stranges

Since earliest…

manhood the centre of his life has been pleasure with women, the giving and taking of it, not with weak indulgence, but with the power and pride of a richly feathered male bird among hens

He sizes…

women up at a glance, with sexual classifications, crude images flashing into his mind and determining the way he smiles at them

Tiger… (Stanley)

tiger! Drop the bottle top! Drop it! We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning!

I’ll tell… (Blanche)

you what I want. Magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don’t tell truth, I tell what ought to be truth

I want to… (Blanche)

kiss you – just once – softly and sweetly on your mouth…It would be nice to keep you, but I’ve got to be good and keep my hands off children