Film Quotes by Bette Davis
182 quotes
Margo Channing:
I'll admit I may have seen better days, but I'm still not to be had for the price of a cocktail, like a salted peanut.
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Bette Davis
(as Margo)
in
All About Eve
(1950)
Margo Channing:
Lloyd, honey, be a playwright with guts. Write me one about a nice normal woman who just shoots her husband.
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Bette Davis
(as Margo)
in
All About Eve
(1950)
Margo Channing:
Nice speech, Eve. But I wouldn't worry too much about your heart. You can always put that award where your heart ought to be.
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Bette Davis
(as Margo)
in
All About Eve
(1950)
Sara Muller:
When the time comes. When it comes, I will do my best.
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Bette Davis
(as Sara Muller)
in
Watch on the Rhine
(1943)
Lloyd Richards:
How about calling it a night?
Margo Channing: And you, pose as a playwright? A situation pregnant with possibilities and all you can think of is everybody go to sleep.
Margo Channing: And you, pose as a playwright? A situation pregnant with possibilities and all you can think of is everybody go to sleep.
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Bette Davis
(as Margo)
in
All About Eve
(1950)
Llyod Richards:
You knew when you came in that the audition was over, that Eve was your understudy, playing that childish little game of cat and mouse.
Margo Channing: Not mouse, never mouse. If anything *rat*!
Margo Channing: Not mouse, never mouse. If anything *rat*!
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Bette Davis
(as Margo)
in
All About Eve
(1950)
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Bette Davis
(as Margo)
in
All About Eve
(1950)
Bill Sampson:
I start shooting a week from Monday. Zanuck is impatient. He wants me, he needs me.
Margo Channing: Zanuck, Zanuck, Zanuck. What are you two, lovers?
Margo Channing: Zanuck, Zanuck, Zanuck. What are you two, lovers?
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Bette Davis
(as Margo)
in
All About Eve
(1950)
Bill Sampson:
We have to go to City Hall for the marriage license and blood test.
Margo Channing: I'd marry you if it turned out you had no blood at all.
Margo Channing: I'd marry you if it turned out you had no blood at all.
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Bette Davis
(as Margo)
in
All About Eve
(1950)
Bill Sampson:
We started talking - she wanted to know about Hollywood. She seemed so interested.
Margo Channing: She's a girl of so many interests.
Bill Sampson: Pretty rare quality these days.
Margo Channing: A girl of so many rare qualities.
Bill Sampson: So she seems.
Margo Channing: So you've pointed out so often! So many qualities so often - her loyalty, efficiency, devotion, warmth, and affection, and so young! So young and so fair!
Margo Channing: She's a girl of so many interests.
Bill Sampson: Pretty rare quality these days.
Margo Channing: A girl of so many rare qualities.
Bill Sampson: So she seems.
Margo Channing: So you've pointed out so often! So many qualities so often - her loyalty, efficiency, devotion, warmth, and affection, and so young! So young and so fair!
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Bette Davis
(as Margo)
in
All About Eve
(1950)