All About Eve Quotes

Addison DeWitt : Well, Max has gone to a great deal of trouble. This is going to be an elaborate party, and it's for you.
Eve Harrington : No it isn't. [ raises the award statuette ]
Eve Harrington : It's for this.
Addison DeWitt : It's the same thing, isn't it?
Eve Harrington : Exactly. Here, take it to the party instead of me [ hands it to him ]
Eve Harrington : .

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Addison DeWitt : And what's your name?
Phoebe : Phoebe.
Addison DeWitt : Phoebe?
Phoebe : I call myself Phoebe.
Addison DeWitt : And why not? Tell me, Phoebe, do you want someday to have an award like that of your own?
Phoebe : More than anything else in the world.
Addison DeWitt : Then you must ask Miss Harrington how to get one. Miss Harrington knows all about it.

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Bill Sampson : Looks like I'm going to have a very fancy party...
Margo Channing : I thought you were going to be late.
Bill Sampson : When I'm guest of honor?
Margo Channing : I had no idea you were even here.
Bill Sampson : I ran into Eve on my way upstairs; she told me you were dressing.
Margo Channing : That never stopped you before.
Bill Sampson : Well, we started talking, she wanted to know all about Hollywood, she seemed so interested...
Margo Channing : She's a girl of so many interests.
Bill Sampson : It's a pretty rare quality these days.
Margo Channing : She's a girl of so many rare qualities.
Bill Sampson : So she seems.
Margo Channing : So you've pointed out, so often. So many qualities, so often. Her loyalty, efficiency, devotion, warmth, affection - and so young. So young and so fair...

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Margo Channing : I'll admit I may have seen better days, but I'm still not to be had for the price of a cocktail like a salted peanut.

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Addison DeWitt : [ Voice over intro ] Those of you who do not read, attend the theater, listen to unsponsored radio programs, or know anything of the world in which you live, it is perhaps necessary to introduce myself. My name is Addison DeWitt. My native habitat is the theater. In it, I toil not, neither do I spin. I am a critic and commentator. I am essential to the theater.

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Margo Channing : Bill's welcome home birthday party might go down in history. Even before the party started, I could smell disaster in the air. I knew it, I sensed it, even as I finished dressing for the blasted party.

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Margo Channing : Why so remote Addison? I should think you'd be at your protégé's side lending her moral support.
Addison DeWitt : Miss Caswell at the moment is where I can lend no support, moral or otherwise.
Margo Channing : In the lady's, shall we say, lounge?
Addison DeWitt : ...being violently ill to her tummy.

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Karen Richards : This beats all records for running, standing or jumping gall.

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