All About Eve Famous Lines

Here are a few of our favorite lines from All About Eve.

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Margo Channing ( Bette Davis ):
"Fasten your seat belts it's going to be a bumpy night."


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Margo Channing ( Bette Davis ):
"Something demure. A fur coat over a nightgown."


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Margo Channing ( Bette Davis ):
"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."


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George Sanders (Addison De Witt):
"You're maudlin and full of self pity. You're magnificent."


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Hugh Marlowe (Lloyd Richards):
"The general atmosphere is very Macbeth-ish. What has or is about to happen."


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George Sanders (Addison De Witt):
"The mark of a true killer. Sleep tight, rest easy and come on fighting."


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Gary Merrill (Bill Sampson):
"The gong rang. The fight's over. Calm down."


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Margo Channing ( Bette Davis ):
"Funny business a woman's career. The things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them when you get back to being a woman. It's the one career we all have in common … being a woman."


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Birdie Coonan (Thelma Ritter):
"I haven't got a union. I'm slave labor."


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Hugh Marlowe (Lloyd Richards):
"It's about time the piano realized that it did not write the concerto."


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Birdie Coonan (Thelma Ritter):
"What a story. Everything but the blood hounds snapping at her rear end."


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Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter):
"The show most go on."
Karen Richards (Celeste Holm):
"No. Margo must go on."


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Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter):
"Why if there's nothing else, there is applause."


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George Sanders (Addison De Witt):
"Margot is a great star. A true star. She never will be anything else or anything less."


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