All About Eve Quote

Addison DeWitt : What do you take me for?
Eve Harrington : I don't know that I'd take you for anything.
Addison DeWitt : Is it possible, even conceivable, that you've confused me with that gang of backward children you play tricks on, that you have the same contempt for me as you have for them?
Eve Harrington : I'm sure you mean something by that, Addison, but I don't know what?
Addison DeWitt : Look closely, Eve. It's time you did. I am Addison DeWitt. I am nobody's fool, least of all yours.
Eve Harrington : I never intended you to be.
Addison DeWitt : Yes you did, and you still do.
Eve Harrington : I still don't know what you're getting at, but right now I want to take my nap. It's important...
Addison DeWitt : It's important right now that we talk, killer to killer.
Eve Harrington : Champion to champion.
Addison DeWitt : Not with me, you're no champion. You're stepping way up in class.
Eve Harrington : Addison, will you please say what you have to say, plainly and distinctly, and then get out, so I can take my nap?
Addison DeWitt : Very well - plainly and distinctly - though I consider it unnecessary because you know as well as I do what I'm going to say: Lloyd may leave Karen, but he will not leave Karen for you.
Eve Harrington : What do you mean by that?
Addison DeWitt : More plainly and more distinctly: I have not come to New Haven to see the play, discuss your dreams, or pull the ivy from the walls of Yale. I have come here to tell you that you will not marry Lloyd, or anyone else for that matter, because I will not permit it.
Eve Harrington : What have you got to do with it?
Addison DeWitt : Everything, bec

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