Bill Sampson:
Wherever there's magic and make-believe and an audience, there's theatre.
--Gary Merrill (as Bill Simpson) in All About Eve
--Gary Merrill (as Bill Simpson) in All About Eve
Bill Sampson:
You know, there isn't a playwright in the world who could make me believe this would happen between two adult people. Goodbye, Margo.
Margo Channing: Bill? Where are you going? To find Eve?
Bill Sampson: That suddenly makes the whole thing believable.
--Gary Merrill (as Bill Simpson) in All About Eve
Margo Channing: Bill? Where are you going? To find Eve?
Bill Sampson: That suddenly makes the whole thing believable.
--Gary Merrill (as Bill Simpson) in All About Eve
[speaking to Dixon]
Tommy Scalise: That's a fancy way of trying to frame somebody- getting yourself knocked off. A guy's gotta be outta his head for that. I didn't know a guy could hate that much. Not even you.
--Gary Merrill (as Tommy Scalise) in Where the Sidewalk Ends
Tommy Scalise: That's a fancy way of trying to frame somebody- getting yourself knocked off. A guy's gotta be outta his head for that. I didn't know a guy could hate that much. Not even you.
--Gary Merrill (as Tommy Scalise) in Where the Sidewalk Ends
Margo Channing:
Heartburn? It's that Miss Caswell. I don't see why she hasn't given Addison heartburn.
Bill Sampson: No heart to burn!
--Gary Merrill (as Bill Simpson) in All About Eve
Bill Sampson: No heart to burn!
--Gary Merrill (as Bill Simpson) in All About Eve