George Sanders
(as Addison DeWitt)
Bill Sampson:
I don't agree, Addison.
Addison DeWitt: That happens to be your particular abnormality.
Addison DeWitt: That happens to be your particular abnormality.
Gary Merrill
(as Bill Simpson)
Bette Davis
(as Margo)
Gary Merrill
(as Bill Simpson)
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.
Margo Channing: Bill? Where are you going? To find Eve?
Bill Sampson: That suddenly makes the whole thing believable.
George Sanders
(as Addison DeWitt)
[a butler passes by]
Miss Claudia Caswell: Oh, waiter!
Addison DeWitt: That is not a waiter, my dear, that is a butler.
Miss Claudia Caswell: Well, I can't yell "Oh butler!" can I? Maybe somebody's name is Butler.
Addison DeWitt: You have a point. An idiotic one, but a point.
Miss Claudia Caswell: I don't want to make trouble. All I want is a drink.
Max Fabian: Leave it to me. I'll get you one.
Miss Claudia Caswell: Thank you, Mr. Fabian.
Addison DeWitt: Well done! I can see your career rise in the east like the sun.
Miss Claudia Caswell: Oh, waiter!
Addison DeWitt: That is not a waiter, my dear, that is a butler.
Miss Claudia Caswell: Well, I can't yell "Oh butler!" can I? Maybe somebody's name is Butler.
Addison DeWitt: You have a point. An idiotic one, but a point.
Miss Claudia Caswell: I don't want to make trouble. All I want is a drink.
Max Fabian: Leave it to me. I'll get you one.
Miss Claudia Caswell: Thank you, Mr. Fabian.
Addison DeWitt: Well done! I can see your career rise in the east like the sun.
George Sanders
(as Addison DeWitt)
George Sanders
(as Addison DeWitt)
Eve Harrington:
I won't play tonight. I couldn't, not possibly. I couldn't go on.
Addison DeWitt: Couldn't go on? You'll give the performance of your life.
Addison DeWitt: Couldn't go on? You'll give the performance of your life.
Anne Baxter
(as Eve)
Karen Richards:
A part in a play. You'd do all that just for a part in a play?
Eve Harrington: I'd do much more for a part that good.
Eve Harrington: I'd do much more for a part that good.
Bette Davis
(as Margo)
Margo Channing:
As it happens, there are particular aspects of my life to which I would like to maintain sole and exclusive rights and privileges.
Bill Sampson: For instance what?
Margo Channing: For instance: you!
Bill Sampson: For instance what?
Margo Channing: For instance: you!
Bette Davis
(as Margo)
Margo Channing:
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.
