George Sanders
(as Addison DeWitt)
George Sanders
(as Addison DeWitt)
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.
George Sanders
(as Addison DeWitt)
Bette Davis
(as Margo)
Lloyd Richards:
A Hollywood movie star just arrived.
Margo Channing: Shucks, and I sent my autograph book to the cleaner.
Margo Channing: Shucks, and I sent my autograph book to the cleaner.
Bette Davis
(as Margo)
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!
Celeste Holm
(as Karen)
Lloyd Richards:
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!
Karen Richards: The cynicism you refer to, I acquired the day I discovered I was different from little boys!
Hugh Marlowe
(as Lloyd Richards)
Hugh Marlowe
(as Lloyd Richards)
Lloyd Richards:
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.
Bette Davis
(as Margo)
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!
Bette Davis
(as Margo)
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!
