Hugh Marlowe
(as Lloyd Richards)
Lloyd Richards:
The atmosphere is very MacBeth-ish... what has, or is about to, happen?
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Bette Davis
(as Margo)
Bill Sampson:
I start shooting a week from Monday. Zanuck is impatient. He wants me, he needs me.
Margo Channing: Zanuck, Zanuck, Zanuck. What are you two, lovers?
Margo Channing: Zanuck, Zanuck, Zanuck. What are you two, lovers?
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George Sanders
(as Addison DeWitt)
Eve Harrington:
I won't play tonight. I couldn't, not possibly. I couldn't go on.
Addison DeWitt: Couldn't go on? You'll give the performance of your life.
Addison DeWitt: Couldn't go on? You'll give the performance of your life.
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George Sanders
(as Addison DeWitt)
Addison DeWitt:
We all have abnormalities in common. We're a breed apart from the rest of humanity, we theatre folk. We are the original displaced personalities.
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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!
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George Sanders
(as Addison DeWitt)
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.
Addison DeWitt: That's, uh, all television is, my dear, nothing but auditions.
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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.
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Anne Baxter
(as Eve)
Eve Harrington:
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.
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Anne Baxter
(as Eve)
Eve Harrington:
If nothing else, there's applause... like waves of love pouring over the footlights.
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Bette Davis
(as Margo)
Margo Channing:
Margo Channing is ageless - spoken like a press agent.
Lloyd Richards: I know what I'm talking about. After all, they're my plays.
Margo Channing: 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.
Lloyd Richards: I know what I'm talking about. After all, they're my plays.
Margo Channing: 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.
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