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Quotes of Movie: All About Eve [1950]
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If nothing else, there's applause... like waves of love pouring over the footlights. Bill's thirty-two. He looks thirty-two. He looked it five years ago, he'll look it twenty years from now. I hate men. Funny business, a woman's career -- the things you drop on your way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. That's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted. And in the last analysis, nothing's any good unless you can look up just before dinner or turn around in bed, and there he is. Without that, you're not a woman. You're something with a French provincial office or a book full of clippings, but you're not a woman. Slow curtain, the end. What a story! Everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end. | |
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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, because after tonight, you will belong to me. Eve Harrington: Belong? To you? I can't believe my ears! Addison DeWitt: What a dull cliché. Eve Harrington: Belong to you - why, that sounds medieval, something out of an old melodrama! Addison DeWitt: So does the history of the world for the past twenty years. I don't enjoy putting it as bluntly as this. Frankly, I'd hoped that somehow you would have known, that you would have taken it for granted that you and I-- Eve Harrington: Taken it for granted that you and I . . . [laughs] Addison DeWitt: [slaps her] Now, remember, as long as you live, never to laugh at me -- at anything or anyone else, but never at me. Eve Harrington: [walks to the door and opens it] Get out! Addison DeWitt: You're too short for that gesture. Besides, it went out with Mrs. Fiske. I'm Addison DeWitt. I'm nobody's fool, least of all yours. Miss Claudia Caswell: Oh, waiter! Addison DeWitt: That is not a waiter, my dear, that is a butler. Miss Claudia Caswell: Well, I can't yell "Oh butler!" can I? Maybe somebody's name is Butler. Addison DeWitt: You have a point. An idiotic one, but a point. Miss Claudia Caswell: I don't want to make trouble. All I want is a drink. Max Fabian: Leave it to me. I'll get you one. Miss Claudia Caswell: Thank you, Mr. Fabian. Addison DeWitt: Well done! I can see your career rise in the east like the sun. Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night! You're maudlin and full of self-pity. You're magnificent! 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. How about calling it a night? Margo Channing: And you, pose as a playwright? A situation pregnant with possibilities and all you can think of is everybody go to sleep. [voiceover] Margo Channing is a star of the theater. She made her first stage appearance at the age of four in Midsummer Night's Dream. She played a fairy and entered, quite unexpectedly, stark naked. She has been a star ever since. Margo is a great star, a true star. She never was or will be anything less or anything else. Have you no human consideration? Margo Channing: Show me a human, and I might have! Heartburn? It's that Miss Caswell. I don't see why she hasn't given Addison heartburn. Bill Sampson: No heart to burn! Margo Channing: Everybody has a heart - except some people. I detest cheap sentiment. Too bad, we're gonna miss the third act. They're gonna play it offstage. While you wait you can read my column. It'll make minutes fly like hours. A Hollywood movie star just arrived. Margo Channing: Shucks, and I sent my autograph book to the cleaner. I will regard this great honor not so much as an award for what I have achieved, but a standard to hold against what I have yet to accomplish. That bitter cynicism of yours is something you've acquired since you left Radcliffe! Karen Richards: The cynicism you refer to, I acquired the day I discovered I was different from little boys! We have to go to City Hall for the marriage license and blood test. Margo Channing: I'd marry you if it turned out you had no blood at all. That I should want you at all suddenly strikes me as the height of improbability. But that in itself is probably the reason: You're an improbable person, Eve, and so am I. We have that in common. Also our contempt for humanity and inability to love and be loved, insatiable ambition, and talent. We deserve each other. The bed looks like a dead animal act. 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 theatre. Tell me this, do they have auditions for television? Addison DeWitt: That's, uh, all television is, my dear, nothing but auditions. | |
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