Quotes from A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

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Marlon Brando
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
- Marlon Brando (as Stanley Kowalski) in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Marlon Brando
Stanley Kowalski: You think I'm gonna interfere with you?... You know, maybe you wouldn't be bad to interfere with.
- Marlon Brando (as Stanley Kowalski) in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Marlon Brando
Blanche DuBois: [telephone rings]
[rises out of seat]
Blanche DuBois: That's for me, I'm sure.
Stanley Kowalski: [pushes her back down roughly] Just keep your seat, I'm not so sure.
- Marlon Brando (as Stanley Kowalski) in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Vivien Leigh
Blanche DuBois: 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.
- Vivien Leigh (as Blanche DuBois) in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Vivien Leigh
Blanche DuBois: Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable, and the one thing of which I have never,ever been guilty of.
- Vivien Leigh (as Blanche DuBois) in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Vivien Leigh
Blanche DuBois: 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.
- Vivien Leigh (as Blanche DuBois) in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Vivien Leigh
Blanche DuBois: I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is 50% illusion.
- Vivien Leigh (as Blanche DuBois) in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Vivien Leigh
Blanche DuBois: I said I was sorry three times!
- Vivien Leigh (as Blanche DuBois) in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Vivien Leigh
Blanche DuBois: Is there something wrong with me?
- Vivien Leigh (as Blanche DuBois) in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Marlon Brando
Blanche DuBois: My, but you have an impressive, judicial air.
Stanley Kowalski: 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.
- Marlon Brando (as Stanley Kowalski) in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

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