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All About Eve Movie Quotes


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

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


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


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."


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


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


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


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


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."


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


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


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


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


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


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




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How many days a week does Eve come and see Margo's play before they finally meet?

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