Marlon Brando credited as playing...
Stanley Kowalski
- 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.
- 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!
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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]
- 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!
- 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.
- 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.
- Stanley: You think I'm gonna interfere with you?... You know, maybe you wouldn't be bad to interfere with.
- 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
- 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.