A scene from All About Eve 1950
De Witt

But if I may make a suggestion...I think the time has come for you to shed some of your humility. It is just as false not to blow your horn at all as it is to blow it too loudly.

Eve

I don't think I have anything to sound off about.

De Witt

We all come into this world with our little egos, equipped with individual horns. Now if we don't blow them, who else will?

Eve

Even so, one pretty good performance by an understudy - it'll be forgotten by tomorrow.

De Witt

It needn't be.

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