All About Eve Quotes
Miss Claudia Caswell : Tell me this, do they have auditions for television?
Addison DeWitt : That's, uh, all television is, my dear, nothing but auditions.
Addison DeWitt : That's, uh, all television is, my dear, nothing but auditions.
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Margo Channing : Nice speech, Eve. But I wouldn't worry too much about your heart. You can always put that award where your heart ought to be.
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[ Bill is saying goodbye to Birdie as he departs for Hollywood ]
Bill Sampson : What should I tell Tyrone Power for you?
Birdie : Just give him my phone number; I'll tell him myself.
Bill Sampson : What should I tell Tyrone Power for you?
Birdie : Just give him my phone number; I'll tell him myself.
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[ on theatrical producers ]
Claudia Caswell : Why do they always look like unhappy rabbits?
Claudia Caswell : Why do they always look like unhappy rabbits?
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Lloyd Richards : I shall never understand the weird process by which a body with a voice suddenly fancies itself as a mind. Just when exactly does an actress decide they're HER words she's speaking and HER thoughts she's expressing?
Margo Channing : Usually at the point where she has to rewrite and rethink them, to keep the audience from leaving the theatre!
Margo Channing : Usually at the point where she has to rewrite and rethink them, to keep the audience from leaving the theatre!
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Lloyd Richards : What makes you think either Miller or Sherwood would stand for the nonsense I take from you? You'd better stick to Beaumont and Fletcher! They've been dead for three hundred years!
Margo Channing : ALL playwrights should be dead for three hundred years!
Margo Channing : ALL playwrights should be dead for three hundred years!
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Lloyd Richards : There comes a time that a piano realizes that it has not written a concerto.
Margo Channing : And you, I take it, are the Paderewski who plays his concerto on me, the piano?
Margo Channing : And you, I take it, are the Paderewski who plays his concerto on me, the piano?
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Margo Channing : So many people know me. I wish I did. I wish someone would tell me about me.
Karen Richards : You're Margo, just Margo.
Margo Channing : And what is that, besides something spelled out in light bulbs, I mean - besides something called a temperament, which consists mostly of swooping about on a broomstick and screaming at the top of my voice? Infants behave the way I do, you know. They carry on and misbehave - they'd get drunk if they knew how - when they can't have what they want, when they feel unwanted or insecure or unloved.
Karen Richards : You're Margo, just Margo.
Margo Channing : And what is that, besides something spelled out in light bulbs, I mean - besides something called a temperament, which consists mostly of swooping about on a broomstick and screaming at the top of my voice? Infants behave the way I do, you know. They carry on and misbehave - they'd get drunk if they knew how - when they can't have what they want, when they feel unwanted or insecure or unloved.
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Karen Richards : Where were we going that night, Lloyd and I? Funny, the things you remember and the things you don't.
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Bill Sampson : What book of rules says that theatre exists only within some ugly buildings crowded into one square-mile of New York City? Or London, Paris, or Vienna?
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Bill Sampson : The Theatuh, the Theatuh - what book of rules says the Theater exists only within some ugly buildings crowded into one square mile of New York City? Or London, Paris or Vienna? Listen, junior. And learn. Want to know what the Theater is? A flea circus. Also opera. Also rodeos, carnivals, ballets, Indian tribal dances, Punch and Judy, a one-man band - all Theater. Wherever there's magic and make-believe and an audience - there's Theater. Donald Duck, Ibsen, and The Lone Ranger, Sarah Bernhardt, Poodles Hanneford, Lunt and Fontanne, Betty Grable, Rex and Wild, and Eleanora Duse. You don't understand them all, you don't like them all, why should you? The Theater's for everybody - you included, but not exclusively - so don't approve or disapprove. It may not be your Theater, but it's Theater of somebody, somewhere.
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Addison DeWitt : We all have abnormalities in common. We're a breed apart from the rest of humanity, we theatre folk. We are the original displaced personalities.
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Addison DeWitt : You could sleep now, couldn't you?
Eve Harrington : Why not?
Addison DeWitt : The mark of a true killer: Sleep tight, rest easy, and come out fighting.
Eve Harrington : Why not?
Addison DeWitt : The mark of a true killer: Sleep tight, rest easy, and come out fighting.
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Eve Harrington : It's not modesty. I just don't try to kid myself.
Addison DeWitt : A revolutionary approach to the Theater.
Addison DeWitt : A revolutionary approach to the Theater.
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[ throwing door open ]
Eve Harrington : Get out.
Addison DeWitt : You're too short for that gesture.
Eve Harrington : Get out.
Addison DeWitt : You're too short for that gesture.
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Eve Harrington : I won't play tonight. I couldn't, not possibly. I couldn't go on.
Addison DeWitt : Couldn't go on? You'll give the performance of your life.
Addison DeWitt : Couldn't go on? You'll give the performance of your life.
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Margo Channing : You bought the new girdles a size smaller, I can feel it.
Birdie : Something maybe grew a size larger.
Margo Channing : When we get home you're going to get into one of those girdles and act for two and a half hours.
Birdie : I couldn't get into the girdle in two and a half hours.
Birdie : Something maybe grew a size larger.
Margo Channing : When we get home you're going to get into one of those girdles and act for two and a half hours.
Birdie : I couldn't get into the girdle in two and a half hours.
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Margo Channing : Don't get up. And please stop acting as if I were the queen mother.
Eve Harrington : I'm sorry, I...
Eve Harrington : I'm sorry, I...
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Bill Sampson : Outside of a bee hive Margo, your beahvior would not be considered either Queenly or Motherly.
Margo Channing : You are in a beehive, pal. Didn't you know? We are all busy little bees, full of stings, making honey day and night. Aren't we honey?
Margo Channing : You are in a beehive, pal. Didn't you know? We are all busy little bees, full of stings, making honey day and night. Aren't we honey?
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Lloyd Richards : You've been talking to that venomous fishwife Addison DeWitt!
Margo Channing : In this case, apparently as trustworthy as the World Almanac!
Margo Channing : In this case, apparently as trustworthy as the World Almanac!
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Margo Channing : And you, I take it, are the Paderewski who plays his concerto on me, the piano?
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Bill Sampson : You have every reason for happiness.
Margo Channing : Except happiness!
Margo Channing : Except happiness!
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Bill Sampson : You know, there isn't a playwright in the world who could make me believe this would happen between two adult people. Goodbye, Margo.
Margo Channing : Bill? Where are you going? To find Eve?
Bill Sampson : That suddenly makes the whole thing believable.
Margo Channing : Bill? Where are you going? To find Eve?
Bill Sampson : That suddenly makes the whole thing believable.
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Bill Sampson : I start shooting a week from Monday. Zanuck is impatient. He wants me, he needs me.
Margo Channing : Zanuck, Zanuck, Zanuck. What are you two, lovers?
Margo Channing : Zanuck, Zanuck, Zanuck. What are you two, lovers?
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Llyod Richards : I understand that your understudy, Miss Harrington, has given her notice.
Margo Channing : Too bad.
Bill Sampson : I'm broken up about it.
Margo Channing : Too bad.
Bill Sampson : I'm broken up about it.
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Margo Channing : [ in front of her boyfriend, Bill ] I love you, Max. I really mean it. I love you. Come to the pantry. [ She leaves ]
Max Fabian : [ to Bill ] She loves me like a father. Also, she's loaded.
Max Fabian : [ to Bill ] She loves me like a father. Also, she's loaded.
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