All About Eve Quotes

All About Eve is a television show that first aired in 1970 . All About Eve ended in 1970.

It features Darryl F. Zanuck as producer, Alfred Newman (composer) in charge of musical score, and Milton R. Krasner as head of cinematography.

All About Eve is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of All About Eve is 138 minutes long. All About Eve is distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The cast includes: Bette Davis as Margo, Celeste Holm as Karen, Marilyn Monroe as Miss Casswell, George Sanders as Addison DeWitt, Gregory Ratoff as Max Fabian, Thelma Ritter as Birdie, Hugh Marlowe as Lloyd Richards, Barbara Bates as Phoebe, Gary Merrill as Bill Sampson, Anne Baxter as Eve, and Hugh Marlowe as Llyod Richards.

All About Eve Quotes

Gary Merrill as Bill Sampson

• (Gary Merrill) "Outside of a beehive, Margo, your behavior would not be considered either queenly or motherly."
• (Bette Davis) "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?"

• (Gary Merrill) "Looks like I'm going to have a very fancy party --"
• (Bette Davis) "I thought you were going to be late."
• (Gary Merrill) "When I'm guest of honor?"
• (Bette Davis) "I had no idea you were even here."
• (Gary Merrill) "I ran into Eve on my way upstairs; she told me you were dressing."
• (Bette Davis) "That never stopped you before."
• (Gary Merrill) "Well, we started talking, she wanted to know all about Hollywood, she seemed so interested --"
• (Bette Davis) "She's a girl of so many interests."
• (Gary Merrill) "It's a pretty rare quality these days."
• (Bette Davis) "She's a girl of so many rare qualities."
• (Gary Merrill) "So she seems."
• (Bette Davis) "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 --"

• (Gary Merrill) "I start shooting a week from Monday. Zanuck is impatient. He wants me, he needs me."
• (Bette Davis) "Zanuck, Zanuck, Zanuck. What are you two, lovers?"

• (Gary Merrill) "You know, there isn't a playwright in the world who could make me believe this would happen between two adult people. Goodbye, Margo."
• (Bette Davis) "Bill? Where are you going? To find Eve?"
• (Gary Merrill) "That suddenly makes the whole thing believable."

• (Gary Merrill) ""Don't let it worry you", said the camera man, "Even De Mille couldn't see anything looking through the wrong end." So that was the first and last --"
• (Bette Davis) "Don't let me kill the point. Or isn't it a story for grownups?"
• (Gary Merrill) "You've heard it; about the time I looked into the wrong end of the camera finder."
• (Bette Davis) "Remind me to tell you about the time I looked into the heart of an artichoke."
• (Anne Baxter) "I'd like to hear it."
• (Bette Davis) "Some snowy night, in front of the fire."

• (Gary Merrill) "We have to go to City Hall for the marriage license and blood test."
• (Bette Davis) "I'd marry you if it turned out you had no blood at all."

• (Gary Merrill) "Don't cry. Just score it as an incomplete forward pass."

• (Gary Merrill) "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."

• (Gary Merrill) "Real diamonds in a wig, the world we live in."

• (Gary Merrill) "I can't believe you're making this up. It sounds like something out of an old Clyde Fitch play."
• (Bette Davis) "Clyde Fitch, though you may not think so, was well before my time."
• (Gary Merrill) "I've always denied the legend that you were in "Our American Cousin" the night Lincoln was shot."
• (Bette Davis) "I don't think that's funny."

• (Gary Merrill) "Have you no human consideration?"
• (Bette Davis) "Show me a human, and I might have."

• (Gary Merrill) "This is my cue to take you in my arms and reassure you. But I'm not going to; I'm too mad."
• (Bette Davis) "Guilty."
• (Gary Merrill) "Mad. Darling, there are certain characteristics for which you are famous, on stage and off. I love you for some of them, in spite of others. I haven't let those become too important. They're part of your equipment for getting along in what is laughingly called our environment. You have to keep your teeth sharp; all right; but I will not have you sharpen them on me, or on Eve."
• (Bette Davis) "What about her teeth? What about her fangs?"
• (Gary Merrill) "She hasn't cut them yet, and you know it. So when you start judging an idealistic, dreamy-eyed kid by the barroom Benzedrine standards of this megalomaniac society, I won't have it. Eve Harrington has never, by word, look, thought, or suggestion indicated anything to me but her adoration for you and her happiness at our being in love. And to intimate anything else doesn't spell jealousy to me; it spells a paranoiac insecurity that you should be ashamed of."
• (Bette Davis) "Cut. Print it. What happens in the next reel? Do I get dragged off screaming to the snake pits?"

• (Gary Merrill) "You have every reason for happiness."
• (Bette Davis) "Except happiness."

Bette Davis as Margo

• (Bette Davis) "You be the host. It's your party. Happy birthday, welcome home, and we who are about to die salute you."

• (Bette Davis) "Heaven help me. I love a psychotic."

• (Bette Davis) "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."

• (Bette Davis) "You bought the new girdles a size smaller, I can feel it."
• (Thelma Ritter) "Something maybe grew a size larger."
• (Bette Davis) "When we get home you're going to get into one of those girdles and act for two and a half hours."
• (Thelma Ritter) "I couldn't get into the girdle in two and a half hours."

• (Bette Davis) "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."

• (Bette Davis) "The extra help get here?"
• (Thelma Ritter) "There's some loose characters dressed as maids and butlers. Who'd you call, the William Morris Agency?"
• (Bette Davis) "You're not being funny: I could get actors for less."

• (Bette Davis) "Where is Princess -- fire and music?"

• (Bette Davis) "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night."

• (Bette Davis) "So many people know me. I wish I did. I wish someone would tell me about me."
• (Celeste Holm) "You're Margo, just Margo."
• (Bette Davis) "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."

• (Bette Davis) "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."

• (Bette Davis) "I'm a junkyard."

• (Bette Davis) "Lloyd, honey, be a playwright with guts. Write me one about a nice normal woman who just shoots her husband."

• (Bette Davis) "I detest cheap sentiment."

• (Bette Davis) "Heartburn? It's that Miss Casswell. I don't see why she hasn't given Addison heartburn."
• (Gary Merrill) "No heart to burn."
• (Bette Davis) "Everybody has a heart; except some people."

• (Bette Davis) "I love you, Max. I really mean it. I love you. Come to the pantry."
• (Gregory Ratoff) "She loves me like a father. Also, she's loaded."

• (Bette Davis) "Margo Channing is ageless; spoken like a press agent."
• (Hugh Marlowe) "I know what I'm talking about. After all, they're my plays."
• (Bette Davis) "Spoken like an author. Lloyd, I'm not twenty-ish, I'm not thirty-ish. Three months ago I was forty years old. Forty. Four O. That slipped out. I hadn't quite made up my mind to admit it. Now I suddenly feel as if I've taken all my clothes off."

• (Bette Davis) "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."

• (Bette Davis) "She thinks only of me, doesn't she?"
• (Thelma Ritter) "Well, let's say she thinks only about you, anyway."
• (Bette Davis) "How do you mean that?"
• (Thelma Ritter) "I'll tell you how: like -- like she's studying you, like you was a play or a book or a set of blueprints; how you walk, talk, eat, think, sleep --"
• (Bette Davis) "I'm sure that's very flattering, Birdie. I'm sure there's nothing wrong with it."

• (Bette Davis) "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."

• (Bette Davis) "As it happens, there are particular aspects of my life to which I would like to maintain sole and exclusive rights and privileges."
• (Gary Merrill) "For instance what?"
• (Bette Davis) "For instance: you."

• (Bette Davis) "Birdie, you don't like Eve, do you?"
• (Thelma Ritter) "You looking for an answer or an argument?"
• (Bette Davis) "An answer."
• (Thelma Ritter) "No."
• (Bette Davis) "Why not?"
• (Thelma Ritter) "Now you want an argument."

• (Bette Davis) "I distinctly remember, Addison, crossing you off of my guest list. What are you doing here?"
• (George Sanders) "Dear Margo, you were an unforgettable Peter Pan. You must play it again, soon. You remember Miss Casswell."
• (Bette Davis) "I do not. How do you do?"
• (Marilyn Monroe) "We've never met. Maybe that's why?"
• (George Sanders) "Miss Casswell is an actress, a graduate of the Copacabana school of the dramatic arts."
• (George Sanders) "Ah, Eve."
• (Anne Baxter) "Good evening, Mr. DeWitt."
• (Bette Davis) "I'd no idea you two knew each other."
• (George Sanders) "This must be at long last our formal introduction. Until now, we've only met in passing."
• (Marilyn Monroe) "That's how you met me -- in passing."
• (Bette Davis) "Eve, this is an old friend of Mr. DeWitt's mother. Miss Casswell, Miss Harrington."
• (Anne Baxter) "Miss Casswell."
• (Marilyn Monroe) "How do you do?"
• (Bette Davis) "Addison, I've been waiting for you to meet Eve for the longest time."
• (George Sanders) "It could only have been your natural timidity that kept you from mentioning it."
• (Bette Davis) "You've heard of her great interest in the theater."
• (George Sanders) "We have that in common."
• (Bette Davis) "Then you two must have a long talk."
• (Anne Baxter) "I'm afraid Mr. DeWitt would find me boring."
• (Marilyn Monroe) "You won't bore him long, you won't get a chance to talk."
• (George Sanders) "Claudia, come here."
• (George Sanders) "You see that man, that's Max Fabian, the producer. Now, go do yourself some good."
• (Marilyn Monroe) "Why do they always look like unhappy rabbits?"
• (George Sanders) "Because that's what they are."
• (George Sanders) "Now, go and make him happy."
• (George Sanders) "Now, don't worry about your little charge, she'll be in safe hands."
• (Bette Davis) "Ah-men."

• (Bette Davis) "You're not much of a bargain, you know. You're conceited and thoughtless and messy."

• (Bette Davis) "Why so remote Addison? I should think you'd be at your protégé's side lending her moral support."
• (George Sanders) "Miss Casswell at the moment is where I can lend no support, moral or otherwise."
• (Bette Davis) "In the lady's, shall we say, lounge?"
• (George Sanders) "-- being violently ill to her tummy."

• (Bette Davis) "Peace and quiet is for libraries."

Thelma Ritter as Birdie

• (Thelma Ritter) "What a story. Everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end."

• (Thelma Ritter) "There's a message from the bartender. Does Miss Channing know she ordered domestic gin by mistake?"
• (Bette Davis) "The only thing I ordered by mistake is the guests. They're domestic, too, and they don't care what they drink as long as it burns."

• (Thelma Ritter) "We now got everything a dressing room needs except a basketball hoop."

• (Thelma Ritter) "I haven't got a union. I'm slave labor."
• (Bette Davis) "Well?"
• (Thelma Ritter) "But the wardrobe women have got one, and next to a tenor, a wardrobe woman is the touchiest thing in show business."

• (Thelma Ritter) "The bed looks like a dead animal act."

George Sanders as Addison DeWitt

• (George Sanders) "You're maudlin and full of self-pity. You're magnificent."

• (George Sanders) "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."

• (George Sanders) "There never was, and there never will be, another like you."

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

• (George Sanders) "Why not read my column to pass the time? The minutes will fly like hours."

• (George Sanders) "We all come into this world with our little egos equipped with individual horns. If we don't blow them, who else will?"

• (George Sanders) "Hello. Who are you?"
• (Barbara Bates) "Miss Harrington's resting, Mr. Dewitt. She asked me to see who it is."
• (George Sanders) "Oh well, we won't disturb her rest. It seems Miss Harrington left her award in the taxicab. Will you give it to her? Tell me, how did you know my name?"
• (Barbara Bates) "It's a very famous name, Mr. DeWitt."
• (George Sanders) "And what's your name?"
• (Barbara Bates) "Phoebe."
• (Barbara Bates) "Phoebe?"
• (George Sanders) "I call myself Phoebe."
• (Barbara Bates) "And why not? Tell me, Phoebe, do you want some day to have an award like that of your own?"
• (George Sanders) "More than anything else in the world."
• (Barbara Bates) "Then you must ask Miss Harrington how to get one. Miss Harrington knows all about it."

• (George Sanders) "What do you take me for?"
• (Anne Baxter) "I don't know that I'd take you for anything."
• (George Sanders) "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?"
• (Anne Baxter) "I'm sure you mean something by that, Addison, but I don't know what?"
• (George Sanders) "Look closely, Eve. It's time you did. I am Addison DeWitt. I am nobody's fool, least of all yours."
• (Anne Baxter) "I never intended you to be."
• (George Sanders) "Yes you did, and you still do."
• (Anne Baxter) "I still don't know what you're getting at, but right now I want to take my nap. It's important --"
• (George Sanders) "It's important right now that we talk, killer to killer."
• (Anne Baxter) "Champion to champion."
• (George Sanders) "Not with me, you're no champion. You're stepping way up in class."
• (Anne Baxter) "Addison, will you please say what you have to say, plainly and distinctly, and then get out, so I can take my nap?"
• (George Sanders) "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."
• (Anne Baxter) "What do you mean by that?"
• (George Sanders) "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."
• (Anne Baxter) "What have you got to do with it?"
• (George Sanders) "Everything, because after tonight, you will belong to me."
• (Anne Baxter) "Belong? To you? I can't believe my ears."
• (George Sanders) "What a dull cliché."
• (Anne Baxter) "Belong to you; why, that sounds medieval, something out of an old melodrama."
• (George Sanders) "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 --"
• (Anne Baxter) "Taken it for granted that you and I --"
• (George Sanders) "Now, remember, as long as you live, never to laugh at me; at anything or anyone else, but never at me."
• (Anne Baxter) "Get out."
• (George Sanders) "You're too short for that gesture. Besides, it went out with Mrs. Fiske."

• (George Sanders) "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."

• (George Sanders) "Well, Max has gone to a great deal of trouble. This is going to be an elaborate party, and it's for you."
• (Anne Baxter) "No it isn't."
• (Anne Baxter) "It's for this."
• (George Sanders) "It's the same thing, isn't it?"
• (Anne Baxter) "Exactly. Here, take it to the party instead of me."

• (George Sanders) "You could sleep now, couldn't you?"
• (Anne Baxter) "Why not?"
• (George Sanders) "The mark of a true killer: Sleep tight, rest easy, and come out fighting."

• (George Sanders) "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."

• (George Sanders) "Too bad, we're gonna miss the third act. They're gonna play it offstage."

Celeste Holm as Karen

• (Celeste Holm) "Who'd show up at this hour? It's time people went home. Hold that coat up."
• (Celeste Holm) "Whose is it?"
• (Anne Baxter) "Some Hollywood movie star's. Her plane got in late."
• (Celeste Holm) "Discouraging, isn't it? Women with furs like that where it never even gets cold."
• (Anne Baxter) "Hollywood."

• (Celeste Holm) "Nothing is forever in the Theatre. Whatever it is, it's here, it flares up, burns hot and then its gone."

• (Celeste Holm) "This beats all records for running, standing or jumping gall."

• (Celeste Holm) "A part in a play. You'd do all that just for a part in a play?"
• (Anne Baxter) "I'd do much more for a part that good."

• (Celeste Holm) "Newton, they say, thought of gravity by getting hit on the head by an apple. And the man who invented the steam-engine, he was watching a teakettle. But not me. My big idea came to me just sitting on a couch. That boot in the rear to Margo. Heaven knows, she had one coming. From me, from Lloyd, from Eve, Bill, Max and so on. We'd all felt those size fives of hers often enough. But how? The answer was buzzing around me like a fly. I had it. But I let it go. Screaming and calling names is one thing, but this could mean --"
• (Celeste Holm) "Why not? "Why," I said to myself, "not?" It would all seem perfectly legitimate. And only two people in the world would know. Also, the boot would land where it would do the most good for all concerned. After all, it was no more than a harmless joke which Margo herself would be the first to enjoy. And no reason why she shouldn't be told about it -- in time."
• (Celeste Holm) "Hello. Will you please call Miss Eve Harrington to the phone?"

• (Celeste Holm) "Where were we going that night, Lloyd and I? Funny, the things you remember and the things you don't."

Marilyn Monroe as Miss Casswell

• (Marilyn Monroe) "Tell me this, do they have auditions for television?"
• (George Sanders) "That's, uh, all television is, my dear, nothing but auditions."

• (Marilyn Monroe) "Oh, waiter."
• (George Sanders) "That is not a waiter, my dear, that is a butler."
• (Marilyn Monroe) "Well, I can't yell "Oh butler." can I? Maybe somebody's name is Butler."
• (George Sanders) "You have a point. An idiotic one, but a point."
• (Marilyn Monroe) "I don't want to make trouble. All I want is a drink."
• (Gregory Ratoff) "Leave it to me. I'll get you one."
• (Marilyn Monroe) "Thank you, Mr. Fabian."
• (George Sanders) "Well done. I can see your career rise in the east like the sun."

• (Marilyn Monroe) "Why do they always look like unhappy rabbits?"

Anne Baxter as Eve

• (Anne Baxter) "I won't play tonight. I couldn't, not possibly. I couldn't go on."
• (George Sanders) "Couldn't go on? You'll give the performance of your life."

• (Anne Baxter) "It's not modesty. I just don't try to kid myself."
• (George Sanders) "A revolutionary approach to the Theater."

• (Anne Baxter) "If nothing else, there's applause -- like waves of love pouring over the footlights."

• (Anne Baxter) "I'll never forget this night as long as I live, and I'll never forget you for making it possible."

• (Anne Baxter) "When you're a secretary in a brewery, it's pretty hard to make-believe you're anything else. Everything is beer."

Hugh Marlowe as Llyod Richards

• (Hugh Marlowe) "The atmosphere is very MacBeth-ish -- what has, or is about to, happen?"

• (Hugh Marlowe) "I understand that your understudy, Miss Harrington, has given her notice."
• (Bette Davis) "Too bad."
• (Gary Merrill) "I'm broken up about it."

• (Hugh Marlowe) "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."
• (Bette Davis) "ALL playwrights should be dead for three hundred years."

• (Hugh Marlowe) "You've been talking to that venomous fishwife Addison DeWitt."
• (Bette Davis) "In this case, apparently as trustworthy as the World Almanac."

• (Hugh Marlowe) "That bitter cynicism of yours is something you've acquired since you left Radcliffe."
• (Celeste Holm) "The cynicism you refer to, I acquired the day I discovered I was different from little boys."

• (Hugh Marlowe) "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 saying, and HER thoughts she's expressing?"
• (Bette Davis) "Usually at the point where she has to rewrite and rethink them, to keep the audience from leaving the theatre."

• (Hugh Marlowe) "There are very few moments in life as good as this. Let's remember it. To each of us and all of us, never have we been more close, may we never be farther apart."

• (Hugh Marlowe) "There comes a time that a piano realizes that it has not written a concerto."
• (Bette Davis) "And you, I take it, are the Paderewski who plays his concerto on me, the piano?"

• (Hugh Marlowe) "How about calling it a night?"
• (Bette Davis) "And you pose as a playwright? A situation pregnant with possibilities and all you can think of is everybody go to sleep."

• (Hugh Marlowe) "A Hollywood movie star just arrived."
• (Bette Davis) "Shucks, and I sent my autograph book to the cleaner."

Gregory Ratoff as Max Fabian

• (Gregory Ratoff) "Let the rest of the world beat their brains out for a buck. It's friends that count. And I got friends."

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