Streetcar quotes

• Scene 1


  " Hey, there! Stella, baby!"

  "She is daintily dressed in a white suit with a fluffy bodice, necklace and ear-rings of pearl, white gloves and a hat, looking as if she were arriving at a summer tea or cocktail party in the Garden District"

  "Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light"

  "contains a folding bed to be used by Blanche. The room is beyond a bedroom"

  "What are you doing in a place like this!"

  "I was so exhausted by all I'd been through my- nerves broke"

  "Open your pretty mouth and talk while I look around for some liquor"
• Scene 1- continued


  "I want to be near you, got to be with somebody, I can't be alone! Because- as you may have noticed - I'm - not very well"

  "Oh you can't describe someone you're in love with!"

  "You know I haven't put on an ounce in ten years Stella? I weigh what I weighed the summer you left Belle Reve. The summer Dad died and you left us."

  "I stayed and fought for it, almost died for it!"

  "why the Grim Reaper had put his tent up on our doorstep!"

  "I let the place go? Where were you! In bed with your - Polack!"

  "The boy died [she sinks down] I'm afraid I'm- going to be sick!"
• Scene 2


  "It looks to me like you've been swindled, baby, and when you're swindled under the Napoleonic code I'm swindled too. And I don't like to be swindled"

  "Stanley: And diamonds A crown for an empress! Stella: A rhinestone tiara she wore to a costume ball."

  "Poems a dead boy wrote. I hurt him the way you would like to hurt me, but you can't! I'm not young and vulnerable anymore. But my young husband was and I- never mind about that!"
• Scene 3


  "Please don't get up. Nobody's going to get up, so don't be worried"

  "You all are married but I'll be alone when she goes"

  "I bought this adorable little coloured paper lantern at a Chinese shop in Bourbon. Put it over the light bulb!"

  "Her eyes go blind with tenderness"

  "I showed you the inscription, didn't I?"

  "Thank you for being so kind! I need kindness now."
• Scene 4


  "He was as good as a lamb when I came back and he's really, very, very, ashamed of himself... Stanley's always smashed things"

  "He acts like an animal, has an animals habits! Eats like one, moves like one, talks like one"

  "over her head he grins through the curtains at Blanche"
• Scene 5


  "there has been a continued round of entertainment, teas, cocktails and luncheons"

  "Myself, myself, for being such a liar!"

  "I've run for protection Stella, from one leaky roof to another leaky roof"

  "I don't listen when you are being morbid!"

  "Put a- paper lantern over the light"

  "You've got to be soft and attractive! And I - I'm fading now"
• Scene 6


  "like to get lost on the first date"

  "He'd stuck the revolver into his mouth and fired"

  "I'd suddenly said 'I know! I know!' You disgust me...' The searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there ebeen any light stronger than this- kitchen- candle"

  "the headlight of the locomotive glares into the room as it thunders past"
• Scene 7


  "Sister Blanche is no lily! ha ha! Some lily she is!"

  "Temperature 100 on the nose and she soaks herself in a hot tub"

  "Say its only a paper moon, sailing over a cardboard sea- But it wouldn't be make believe if you believed in me"

  "She'll go on a bus and like it"

  "The 'Varsouviana' music steals in softly... Blanche tries to smile. Then she tries to laugh. Then she gives up both and springs from the table and runs to the next room."
• Scene 8


  "Pig - Polack - disgusting - vulgar- greasy! Them kind of words been on your tongue and your sister's too much around here! What do you think you two are? A pair of queens? Remember what Huey Long said- 'every man is King!' And I am King around here, so don't forget it!"
• Scene 9


  "blue denim shirt and pants. He is unshaven."

  "She has on her scarlet satin robe."

  "The rapid feverish polka tune, the "Varsouviana" is heard. The music is in her mind; she is drinking to escape"

  "I've never had a good look at you Blanche"

  "I don't want realism... I'll tell you what I want. Magic!"

  "intimacies with strangers was all I seemed to fill my empty heart with."

  "Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart"

  "What I have been missing all summer"
• Scene 10


  "She has decked herself out in a somewhat soiled and crumpled white satin evening gown"

  "You come in her and sprinkle the place with powder and spray perfume and cover the lightbulb with a paper lantern"

  "He takes a step towards her, biting his tongue which protrudes between his lips"

  "Drop it! We've had this date from the beginning!"
• Scene 11


  "Please don't get up. I'm only passing through"

  "couldn't believe her story and go on living with Stanley"

  "Lurid reflections appear on the walls in odd, sinous shapes. The 'Varsouviana' is filtered into weird distortion, accompanied by cries and noises of the jungle"

  "Whoever you are- I have always depended on the kindness of strangers"