Vivien Leigh credited as playing...
Blanche DuBois
- 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.
- Blanche: Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable, and the one thing of which I have never,ever been guilty of.
- Blanche: Straight? What's 'straight'? A line can be straight, or a street. But the heart of a human being?
- 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.
- 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]
- 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.
- Blanche: Young, young man. Did anyone ever tell you you look like a young prince out of the 'Arabian Nights'?
- 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]
- 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.