Desire Quotes

Stanley Kowalski: 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.

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Blanche DuBois: Tarantula was the name of it. I stayed at a hotel called the Tarantula Arms.
Mitch: Tarantula Arms?
Blanche DuBois: Yes, a big spider. That's where I brought my victims. Yes, I've had many meetings with strangers.

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Mr. Andrews: Remember that time you exposed that white slave ring down in Chinatown?
Jill O'Connor: Oh, come on, I was practically raped with a broom handle!
Mr. Andrews: You just can't make stuff like that up.

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Stanley Kowalski: 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!

Movie: Desire