Charles Staggers:
I want to marry you! Will you get that?
Liberty 'Libby': What!
Charles Staggers: That's it!
Liberty 'Libby': Marry you, Joe? Have you gone out of your mind? I mean you had better look in the frying pan, hadn't you?
--Vivien Leigh (as Liberty aka Libby) in Sidewalks of London
Liberty 'Libby': What!
Charles Staggers: That's it!
Liberty 'Libby': Marry you, Joe? Have you gone out of your mind? I mean you had better look in the frying pan, hadn't you?
--Vivien Leigh (as Liberty aka Libby) in Sidewalks of London
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
--Vivien Leigh (as Blanche DuBois) in A Streetcar Named Desire
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
--Vivien Leigh (as Blanche DuBois) in A Streetcar Named Desire
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
--Vivien Leigh (as Blanche DuBois) in A Streetcar Named Desire
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
--Vivien Leigh (as Blanche DuBois) in A Streetcar Named Desire
Blanche DuBois:
I said I was sorry three times!
--Vivien Leigh (as Blanche DuBois) in A Streetcar Named Desire
--Vivien Leigh (as Blanche DuBois) in A Streetcar Named Desire
Blanche DuBois:
Is there something wrong with me?
--Vivien Leigh (as Blanche DuBois) in A Streetcar Named Desire
--Vivien Leigh (as Blanche DuBois) in A Streetcar Named Desire
Blanche DuBois:
Oh look, we have created enchantment.
--Vivien Leigh (as Blanche DuBois) in A Streetcar Named Desire
--Vivien Leigh (as Blanche DuBois) in A Streetcar Named Desire
Blanche DuBois:
Oh, Stanley! What sign were you born under?
Stanley Kowalski: What sign?
Blanche DuBois: 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 DuBois: Capricorn - the goat!
[long silence follows as Stanley stares at Blanche]
--Vivien Leigh (as Blanche DuBois) in A Streetcar Named Desire
Stanley Kowalski: What sign?
Blanche DuBois: 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 DuBois: Capricorn - the goat!
[long silence follows as Stanley stares at Blanche]
--Vivien Leigh (as Blanche DuBois) in A Streetcar Named Desire
Blanche DuBois:
Straight? What's 'straight'? A line can be straight, or a street. But the heart of a human being?
--Vivien Leigh (as Blanche DuBois) in A Streetcar Named Desire
--Vivien Leigh (as Blanche DuBois) in A Streetcar Named Desire
