Quotes about Quips

Huckleberry Haines: John, everyday you act worse, but today you're acting like tomorrow.

- Fred Astaire (as Huckleberry Haines) in Roberta (1935)

Birdie: What a story! Everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end.

- Thelma Ritter (as Birdie) in All About Eve (1950)

Addison DeWitt: You're maudlin and full of self-pity. You're magnificent!

- George Sanders (as Addison DeWitt) in All About Eve (1950)

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 (1950)

Addison DeWitt: While you wait you can read my column. It'll make minutes fly like hours.

- George Sanders (as Addison DeWitt) in All About Eve (1950)

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)

[throwing door open]
Eve Harrington: Get out.
Addison DeWitt: You're too short for that gesture.

- George Sanders (as Addison DeWitt) in All About Eve (1950)

Bill Sampson: I don't agree, Addison.
Addison DeWitt: That happens to be your particular abnormality.

- George Sanders (as Addison DeWitt) in All About Eve (1950)

C.C. Baxter: That's the way it crumbles... cookie-wise.

- Jack Lemmon (as C.C. Baxter) in The Apartment (1960)

Annina: Monsieur Rick, what kind of a man is Captain Renault?
Rick: Oh, he's just like any other man, only more so.

- Humphrey Bogart (as Rick Blaine) in Casablanca (1942)