A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Karl Malden: Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell

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Quotes 

• Mitch : I like you to be exactly the way that you are, because in all my experience, I have never known anyone like you.

  [Blanche laughs suddenly] 

• Blanche : Marry me, Mitch.

  Mitch : No, I don't think I want to marry you anymore... No, you're not clean enough to bring into the house with my mother.

• Mitch : Poker should not be played in a house with women.

• Blanche : I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

  Mitch : I guess we must strike you as being a pretty rough bunch.

  Blanche : I'm very adaptable to circumstances.

• Blanche : Tarantula was the name of it. I stayed at a hotel called the Tarantula Arms.

  Mitch : Tarantula Arms?

  Blanche : Yes, a big spider. That's where I brought my victims. Yes, I've had many meetings with strangers.

• Stanley : You're gonna kill who, you dumb jerk? You don't even know when you get wised up. Come on.

  Mitch : You don't have to wise me up.

• Mitch : Oh I don't mind you being older than what I thought. But all the rest of it. That pitch about your ideals being so old-fashioned and all the malarkey that you've been dishin' out all summer. Oh, I knew you weren't sixteen anymore. But I was fool enough to believe you was straight."

• Stanley : [yells out]  Hey, Mitch!

  Mitch : [turns to Stanley, yells]  Coming!

  Blanche : Gracious! What lung power!

• [Blanche turns on the radio and the music begins. She dances] 

  Steve : What do you say, Mitch?

  [Mitch turns to Blanche] 

  Stanley : Come on, Mitch, are you in?

  Mitch : What? No, I'm out!

  Stanley : [to Blanche]  Who turned that on in there?

  Blanche : I did. Do you mind?

  Stanley : Well, turn it off!

  Steve : Come on, will you? Let the girls have their music?

  [Stanley goes to their room, angrily and turns off the radio] 

  Blanche : Stanley!

  [He turns to Blanche and goes back to Steve and Pablo at the Poker] 

  Stanley : There you are. I didn't hear your name it!