Quotes about Show Biz

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)

Lloyd Richards: A Hollywood movie star just arrived.
Margo Channing: Shucks, and I sent my autograph book to the cleaner.

- Bette Davis (as Margo) in All About Eve (1950)

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)

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)

Lloyd Richards: I shall never understand the weird process by which a body with a voice suddenly fancies itself as a mind. Just when exactly does an actress decide they're HER words she's speaking and HER thoughts she's expressing?
Margo Channing: Usually at the point where she has to rewrite and rethink them, to keep the audience from leaving the theatre!

- Bette Davis (as Margo) in All About Eve (1950)

Addison DeWitt: We all have abnormalities in common. We're a breed apart from the rest of humanity, we theatre folk. We are the original displaced personalities.

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

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.

- George Sanders (as Addison DeWitt) 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?

- Bette Davis (as Margo) in All About Eve (1950)

Lloyd Richards: The atmosphere is very MacBeth-ish... what has, or is about to, happen?

- Hugh Marlowe (as Lloyd Richards) in All About Eve (1950)

Bill Sampson: Wherever there's magic and make-believe and an audience, there's theatre.

- Gary Merrill (as Bill Simpson) in All About Eve (1950)