"What I was trying to get at in Ran, and this was there from the script stage, was that the gods or God or whoever it is observing human events is feeling sadness about how human beings destroy each other, and powerlessness to affect human beings' behavior."

"Men prefer sorrow over joy... suffering over peace!"

"Does a traitor betray himself?"

"He gives away his house, He gives away his lands, He now holds a new title: 'Lord of the rice fields' a scarecrow!"

"Why stay with this mad old man? If the rock you stay on starts to roll, jump clean. Or you'll go with it and be squashed. Only a fool stays aboard."

"Man is born crying. When he has cried enough, he dies."

"[in Richard's fantasy] It shakes me! It quakes me! It makes me feel goose-pimply all over!"

"Doro Merande - Waitress in the vegetarian restaurant"

"Carolyn Jones - Miss Finch"

"Victor Moore - the Plumber"

"Donald MacBride - Mr. Brady"

"Marguerite Chapman - Miss Morris"

"Oskar Homolka - Dr. Brubaker"

"Robert Strauss - Kruhulik"

"Sonny Tufts - Tom MacKenzie"

"Evelyn Keyes - Helen Sherman"

"Tom Ewell - Richard Sherman"

"Marilyn Monroe - The Girl"

"Waitress: Nudism is such a worthy cause. We must bring the message to the people. We must teach them to unmask their poor suffocating bodies and let them breathe again. Clothes are the enemy. Without clothes, there'd be no sickness, there'd be no war. I ask you, sir, can you imagine two great armies on the battlefield, no uniforms, completely nude? No way of telling friend from foe. All brothers, together."

"Until you are able to commit a simple act of terror, I strongly advise you to avoid anything as complex as murder."

"My 3:00 patient jumped out of the window in the middle of his session. I have been running fifteen minutes ahead of schedule ever since."

"Miss Morris, I'm perfectly capable of fixing my own breakfast. As a matter of fact, I had a peanut butter sandwich and two whiskey sours."

"This thing about women and me. I walk into a room. They sense it instantly. I arouse something in them. I bother them. It's a kind of animal thing I've got. Really quite extraordinary."

"Your imagination! You think every girl's a dope. You think a girl goes to a party and there's some guy in a fancy striped vest strutting around giving you that I'm-so-handsome-you-can't-resist-me look. From this she's supposed to fall flat on her face. Well, she doesn't fall on her face. But there's another guy in the room, over in the corner. Maybe he's nervous and shy and perspiring a little. First, you look past him. But then you sense that he's gentle and kind and worried. That he'll be tender with you, nice and sweet. That's what's really exciting."

"Oh, do you feel the breeze from the subway. Isn't it delicious?"

"So he lured me down to his apartment. He made me sit on his piano bench. Then he made me play Chopsticks. Then suddenly he turned at me. His eyes bulging. He was frothing at the mouth. Just like The Creature from the Black Lagoon."

"When it's hot like this, you know what I do? I put my undies in the Ice Box!"

"Oooooooohhhh! This feels just elegant!"

"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 okay till she showed here, hoity-toity, describin' me like a ape?"

"Karl Malden - Harold "Mitch" Mitchell"

"Kim Hunter - Stella Kowalski"

"Marlon Brando - Stanley Kowalski"

"Vivien Leigh - Blanche DuBois"

"Don't you ever talk that way to me. "Pig," "Polack," "disgusting," "vulgar," "greasy" — those kind of words have been on your tongue and your sister's tongue just too much around here. What do you think you are, a pair of queens? Now just remember what Huey Long said — that every man's a king — and I'm the king around here, and don't you forget it."

"Whoever you are: I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."

"Tarantula was the name of it! I stayed at a hotel called the Tarantula Arms! Yes, a big spider. That's where I brought my victims. Yes, I have had many meetings with strangers. After the death of Allan, meetings with strangers was all I seemed able to fill my empty heart with. I think it was panic — just panic — that drove me from one to another, searching for some protection. Here, there and then in the most unlikely places. Then, at last, in a seventeen-year-old boy. But someone wrote to the superintendent about it: "This woman is morally unfit for her position!" True? Yes... unfit somehow anyway."

"[to little boy] Alright, kid, let's put I the chains. [she shackles and chains with key in the little boy's wristhand] Now stay there, kid. [Locked the door with a key]"

"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."

"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."

"The first time I laid my eyes on her told the story I thought to myself, "That man is my executioner!""

"You know what luck is? Luck is believing you're lucky, that's all... To hold a front position in this rat-race, you've got to believe you are lucky."

"Stella. Hey, Stella!"