A Streetcar named Desire
A Streetcar named Desire
A Streetcar named Desire
A Streetcar named Desire
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. Tarantula was the name of it. I stayed at a hotel called the Tarantula Arms.
Blanche Dubois: 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 Dubois: 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 Dubois: brought me here. Where I’m not wanted and where I’m ashamed to be.
a Streetcar named Desire
Blanche: I can’t stand a naked light bulb any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
Mitch: Well, I guess we strike you as being a pretty rough bunch.
Blanche: I’m very adaptable to circumstances.
A Streetcar named Desire
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
A Streetcar named Desire
Blanche Dubois: My, but you have an impressive, judicial air.
Stanley Kowalsi: 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.
“I never met a dame yet that didn’t know if she was good-lookin’ or not without being told. And there’s some of them that 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 said, ‘So what?”
Stanley Kowalski
A Streetcar named Desire
A Streetcar named Desire Elia Kazan (1951)
Marlon Brando (Stanley Kowalski)
Vivien Leigh (Blanche Dubois)
Kim Hunter (Stella Kowalski)
Karl Malden (Mitch)
