All About Eve quotes

78 total quotes

Addison DeWitt
Birdie Coonan
Eve Harrington

Karen Richards
Lloyd Richards
Margo Channing
Multiple Characters

View Quote Lloyd Richards [about Eve] I like that girl, that quality of quiet graciousness.

View Quote I'll tell ya how, like, like she's studyin' you, like you was a play or a book or a set of blueprints. How you walk, talk, eat, think, sleep.

View Quote I'll never forget this night as long as I live, and I'll never forget you for making it possible.

View Quote It's Addison from start to finish. It drips with his brand of venom. Taking advantage of a kid like that, twisting her words, making her say what he wanted her to say.

View Quote Karen: Margo, nothing you've ever done has made me as happy as your taking Eve in.
Margo: I'm so happy you're happy.

View Quote And there were theaters in San Francisco. And then one night, Margo Channing came to play in Remembrance and I went to see it. Well, here I am.

View Quote When you're a secretary in a brewery, it's pretty hard to make-believe you're anything else. Everything is beer.

View Quote [to Bill] This is my house, not a theater. In my house, you're a guest, not a director.

View Quote Lloyd Richards. He's going to leave Karen. We're going to be married...Lloyd loves me, I love him...I'm in love with Lloyd...Oh Addison, won't it be just perfect? Lloyd and I - there's no telling how far we can go. He'll write great plays for me, I'll make them great.

View Quote I haven't got a union. I'm slave labor.

View Quote Margo: [to Bill] You be host. It's your party. Happy birthday, welcome home. And we who are about to die...
De Witt: Too bad, we're gonna miss the third act. They're gonna play it off stage.

View Quote Miss Casswell: Now there's something a girl could make sacrifices for.
Bill: And probably has.
Miss Casswell: Sable.
Max Fabian: Sable? Did she say sable or Gable?
Miss Casswell: Either one.

View Quote She can play Peck's Bad Boy all she wants and who's to stop her? Who's to give her that boot in the rear she needs and deserves?

View Quote There are in general two types of theatrical producers. One has a great many wealthier friends who will risk a tax deductible loss. This type is interested in art. The other is one to whom each production means potential ruin or fortune. This type is out to make a buck.

View Quote The atmosphere is very MacBeth-ish...what has, or is about to, happen?