Eve Harrington: I will regard this great honor not so much as an award for what I have achieved, but a standard to hold against what I have yet to accomplish. - Anne Baxter (as Eve) in All About Eve (1950)

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Eve Harrington: I'll never forget this night as long as I live, and I'll never forget you for making it possible. - Anne Baxter (as Eve) in All About Eve (1950)

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Eve Harrington: If nothing else, there's applause... like waves of love pouring over the footlights. - Anne Baxter (as Eve) in All About Eve (1950)

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Eve Harrington: It's not modesty. I just don't try to kid myself. Addison DeWitt: A revolutionary approach to the Theater. - George Sanders (as Addison DeWitt) in All About Eve (1950)

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Max Fabian: Let the rest of the world beat their brains out for a buck. It's friends that count. And I got friends. - Gregory Ratoff (as Max Fabian) in All About Eve (1950)

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Birdie: I haven't got a union. I'm slave labor. Margo Channing: Well? Birdie: But the wardrobe women have got one, and next to a tenor, a wardrobe woman is the touchiest thing in show business. - Thelma Ritter (as Birdie) in All About Eve (1950)

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Birdie: The bed looks like a dead animal act. - Thelma Ritter (as Birdie) in All About Eve (1950)

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Birdie: What a story! Everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end. - Thelma Ritter (as Birdie) in All About Eve (1950)

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Miss Claudia Caswell: Tell me this, do they have auditions for television? Addison DeWitt: That's, uh, all television is, my dear, nothing but auditions. - George Sanders (as Addison DeWitt) in All About Eve (1950)

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Karen Richards: Nothing is forever in the Theatre. Whatever it is, it's here, it flares up, burns hot and then its gone. - Celeste Holm (as Karen) in All About Eve (1950)

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