Streetcar Quotations

A common pickpocket trick is for the operator to carry a shawl or overcoat carelessly over the left arm, and to take a seat on the right side of the person they intend to rob in a streetcar or other vehicle.

I would really have liked to have gone to Broadway with 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' I was proud of that.

I have a background in theater. At the time I read 'The Loved Ones' script, I was playing Catherine the Great of Russia onstage. Straight after that, I played Stella in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and Isabella in 'Measure for Measure.'

Kowalski was always right, and never afraid. He never wondered, he never doubted. His ego was very secure. And he had the kind of brutal agressiveness that I hate. I'm afraid of it. I detest the character. (his feelings about one of his most famous characters, Stanley Kowalski from 'A Streetcar Named Desire')

I remember watching 'A Streetcar Named Desire' when I was quite young, I was about 12, or 13, and I watched it, thinking, 'Wow. That is pretty cool. I'd like to do something like that.'

I was probably 8 years old; my mom let me stay up one night. She's like, 'You have to see this movie.' It was 'A Streetcar Named Desire,' and it was on TV, and it was a big deal. And I saw Marlon Brando, and I was like, 'Oh, my God.' That's where it started.

You'd say, 'All of these shows couldn't have been running at the same time. Not 'South Pacific' and 'Mister Roberts' and 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman' ... yeah, they were.

The streetcar will be back. I know the first time I hear the clanging of the bells, I will have goose bumps.

The streetcar will always have detractors. Is it going to go away? No. Is it going to be expanded? Yes, sooner or later.

Dee had played Blanche for us in A Streetcar Named Desire back in 2001, ... When I heard she was doing this show, I jumped on the chance to import it to our theatre.

They should get the streetcar system back to where it was at the end of World War II. They'd see that real estate investment would follow, and they'd be able to rebuild a lot of the neighborhoods faster.

There's a Metro line that runs right through here, ... We are in the next four or five years hopefully going to build our light rail system and streetcar system that has been funded by the federal government this year. We are planning ahead.

I'm from the South and I really studied Tennessee Williams, ... I love plays that are poetry-based, but last year, when all those Williams plays went to Broadway ('A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'The Glass Menagerie'), it didn't occur to producers to ask me if I was interested.

I'm in the theater because of two plays: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman.'

Intellectually I'd love to play Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire Can't you just imagine me down in the streets yelling "Stella! Stella!" God, the critics would have a lot of fun with that one.

I had a high school girlfriend whose mother gave us theater tickets, so I saw the second night performance of 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' My girl and I could not get up during intermission, we were so stunned. To this day it's the only thing I've seen on stage that's 100 percent real and 100 percent poetic simultaneously.