Maggie Cutler: [to Sheridan] Don't you pull any of your tricks on me, because I'm on to every one of them. So lay off. That's my message to you... "Big" Lord Fauntleroy!


--Bette Davis (as Maggie Cutler) in The Man Who Came to Dinner

Maggie Cutler: Sherry, the next time you do NOT want to see anybody, just let me know, and I'll usher them right in.


--Bette Davis (as Maggie Cutler) in The Man Who Came to Dinner

Maggie Cutler: You know, Sheridan, you have one great advantage over everyone else in the world. You've never had to meet Sheridan Whiteside.


--Bette Davis (as Maggie Cutler) in The Man Who Came to Dinner

Margaret Elliott: Haven't you ever cried because you're happy?
Gretchen: No.
Margaret Elliott: Well, you see, some people cry when they're happy and laugh when they're mad.


--Bette Davis (as Margaret Elliot) in The Star

Margaret Elliott: If you're a star you don't stop being a star.


--Bette Davis (as Margaret Elliot) in The Star

Margo Channing: Margo Channing is ageless - spoken like a press agent.
Lloyd Richards: I know what I'm talking about. After all, they're my plays.
Margo Channing: Spoken like an author. Lloyd, I'm not twenty-ish, I'm not thirty-ish. Three months ago I was forty years old. Forty. Four O. That slipped out. I hadn't quite made up my mind to admit it. Now I suddenly feel as if I've taken all my clothes off.


--Bette Davis (as Margo) in All About Eve

Margo Channing: Peace and quiet is for libraries!


--Bette Davis (as Margo) in All About Eve

Margo Channing: She thinks only of me, doesn't she?
Birdie: Well, let's say she thinks only about you, anyway.
Margo Channing: How do you mean that?
Birdie: I'll tell you how: like... like she's studying you, like you was a play or a book or a set of blueprints - how you walk, talk, eat, think, sleep...
Margo Channing: I'm sure that's very flattering, Birdie. I'm sure there's nothing wrong with it.


--Bette Davis (as Margo) in All About Eve

Margo Channing: So many people know me. I wish I did. I wish someone would tell me about me.
Karen Richards: You're Margo, just Margo.
Margo Channing: And what is that, besides something spelled out in light bulbs, I mean - besides something called a temperament, which consists mostly of swooping about on a broomstick and screaming at the top of my voice? Infants behave the way I do, you know. They carry on and misbehave - they'd get drunk if they knew how - when they can't have what they want, when they feel unwanted or insecure or unloved.


--Bette Davis (as Margo) in All About Eve

Margo Channing: You're not much of a bargain, you know. You're conceited and thoughtless and messy.


--Bette Davis (as Margo) in All About Eve