Quotes About A Streetcar Named Desire

#1. 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.

Mark Ruffalo

#2. 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.'

Robin McLeavy

#3. 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.'

Aneurin Barnard

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

Cate Blanchett

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

Mike Nichols

#6. They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!

Tennessee Williams

#7. By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.

Joshua Lederberg

#8. And in the spring, it's touching to notice them making their first discovery of love! As if nobody had ever known it before!

Tennessee Williams

#9. And the respect which he felt for her high rank, and his veneration for her as his patroness, mingling with a very good opinion of himself, of his authority as a clergyman, and his right as a rector, made him altogether a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility.

Jane Austen

#10. He looked right into her and then he said, "In a second I'm going to ask you if you're okay. Your answer is extremely important. If you can keep fighting, or at least keep running, you have to say 'yes'. Otherwise we have to run away and let them win this one. Now. Are you okay?

David Wellington

#11. Conducting an investigation is the result of a crime that has taken place. Sometimes you have to accept the facts, make peace, and move on with love still in your heart. Fate is out of our reach.

Marxxha

#12. I've always been fond of Tim Drake/Robin. I suppose it's the YA writer in me. I enjoy the intensity of young, smart heroes. I'd love to write him in either graphic or prose form.

Cynthia Leitich Smith

#13. Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.

Marianne Moore

#14. And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle ...

Tennessee Williams

#15. I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say I had a good time using them.

Tom Wolfe

#16. But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.

Bill Crawford