All About Eve Quotes: Margo Channing, a drunk and mean drama star in All About Eve, has people she trusts and people she doesn’t trust in her ups and downs.
All About Eve Quotes
1- “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.” – Margo Channing, ‘All About Eve’.
2-“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.” – Margo Channing, ‘All About Eve’.
3- “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.”– Margo Channing, ‘All About Eve’.
4- “I detest cheap sentiment.”– Margo Channing, ‘All About Eve’.
5- “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night!”– Margo Channing, ‘All About Eve’.
6- “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.” – Addison DeWitt, ‘All About Eve’.
7- “We all have abnormalities in common. We’re a breed apart from the rest of humanity, we theatrefolk. We are the original displaced personalities.” – Addison DeWitt, ‘All About Eve’.
8- “We all come into this world with our little egos equipped with individual horns. If we don’t blow them, who else will?” – Addison DeWitt, ‘All About Eve’.
9- “If there’s nothing else, there’s applause. I’ve listened backstage to people applaud. It’s like – like waves of love coming over the footlights and wrapping you up. Imagine, to know every night that different hundreds of people love you. They smile, their eyes shine, you’ve pleased them. They want you. You belong. Just that alone is worth anything.” – Eve Harrington, ‘All About Eve’.
10- “Wherever there’s magic and make-believe and an audience, there’s theatre.” – Bill Simpson, ‘All About Eve’.
11- “Let the rest of the world beat their brains out for a buck. It’s friends that count. And I got friends.” – Max Fabian, ‘All About Eve’.
12- “Nothing is forever in the theatre. Whatever it is, it’s here, it flares up, burns hot and then its gone.” – Karen Richards, ‘All About Eve’.
13- “- Eve: It’s not modesty. I just don’t try to kid myself.
– Addison DeWitt: A revolutionary approach to the theater.” – ‘All About Eve’.
14- “- Lloyd Richards: There comes a time that a piano realizes that it has not written a concerto.
– Margo: And you, I take it, are the Paderewski who plays his concerto on me, the piano?” – ‘All About Eve’.
15- “- Bill Simpson: You have every reason for happiness.
– Margo: Except happiness!” – ‘All About Eve’.
16- “- Margo: As it happens, there are particular aspects of my life to which I would like to maintain sole and exclusive rights and privileges.
– Bill Simpson: For instance what?
– Margo: For instance: you!” – ‘All About Eve’.
17- “- Birdie: There’s a message from the bartender. Does Miss Channing know she ordered domestic gin by mistake?
– Margo: 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!” – ‘All About Eve’.
18- “- Addison DeWitt: You could sleep now, couldn’t you?
– Eve: Why not?
– Addison DeWitt: The mark of a true killer: Sleep tight, rest easy, and come out fighting.” – ‘All About Eve’.
19- “- Lloyd Richards: That bitter cynicism of yours is something you’ve acquired since you left Radcliffe!
– Karen: The cynicism you refer to, I acquired the day I discovered I was different from little boys!” – ‘All About Eve’.
20- “- Margo: Birdie, you don’t like Eve, do you?
– Birdie: You looking for an answer or an argument?
– Margo: An answer.
– Birdie: No.
– Margo: Why not?
– Birdie: Now you want an argument.” – ‘All About Eve’.
21- “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.” – Eve Harrington, ‘All About Eve’.
22- “I’ll never forget this night as long as I live, and I’ll never forget you for making it possible.” – Eve Harrington, ‘All About Eve’.
23- ” If nothing else, there’s applause… like waves of love pouring over the footlights.” – Eve Harrington, ‘All About Eve’.
24- ” –Birdie: I haven’t got a union. I’m slave labor.
–Margo Channing: Well?
–Birdie: But the wardrobe women have got one, and next to a tenor, a wardrobe woman is the touchiest thing in show business.” – ‘All About Eve’.
25- “The bed looks like a dead animal act.” –Birdie, ‘All About Eve’.
26- ” What a story! Everything but the bloodhounds snappin’ at her rear end.” –Birdie, ‘All About Eve’.
27- ” –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.”
28- “Where were we going that night, Lloyd and I? Funny, the things you remember and the things you don’t.” – Karen Richards, ‘All About Eve’.
29- “Peace and quiet is for libraries!”– Margo Channing, ‘All About Eve’.
30- “You’re not much of a bargain, you know. You’re conceited and thoughtless and messy.” – Margo Channing, ‘All About Eve’.
