George SandersQuotes

Jenny Hager: Your mother must be a wonderful woman. I hope that someday you'll say that I'm just like her.

John Evered: That won't be easy. Mother had nine boys.

Jenny Hager: But... the rain. You know what happens to the roads in the rain.

John Evered: Yes, they get very muddy, but they don't change the direction.

Gordon Zellaby: But they are children, and children are not born with a sense of moral values, they have to be taught. With their intellect that should be simple.

Alan Bernard: Intellect. Intellect? That's all you care about. What if you can't teach them? What if you can't put the brake of morals on them?

Gordon Zellaby: First we must try.

Alan Bernard: You're blinded by the vision of intellect. You see David as another Einstein.

Gordon Zellaby: Potentially greater.

Alan Bernard: Solving the riddle of the universe! Your son, David!

Gordon Zellaby: Anthea's son. I have no proof that he's mine.

Jack Favell: I'd like to have your advice on how to live comfortably without hard work.

Addison DeWitt: We know her humility, her devotion, her loyalty to her art, her love, her deep and abiding love for us, for what we are and what we do, the theater. She has had one wish, one prayer, one dream - to belong to us. Tonight, her dream has come true. And henceforth, we shall dream the same of her. Eve. Eve the Golden Girl, the Cover Girl, the Girl Next Door, the Girl on the Moon. Time has been good to Eve. Life goes where she goes. She's the profiled, covered, revealed, reported. What she eats and what she wears and whom she knows and where she was, and when and where she's going. Eve. You all know all about Eve. What can there be to know that you don't know?

Addison DeWitt: Margo Channing is a Star of the Theater. She made her first stage appearance, at the age of four, in Midsummer Night's Dream. She played a fairy and entered - quite unexpectedly - stark naked. She has been a Star ever since. Margo is a great Star. A true star. She never was or will be anything less or anything else.

Addison DeWitt: There are in general two types of theatrical producers. One has a great many wealthier friends who will risk a tax deductible loss. This type is interested in art. The other is one to whom each production means potential ruin or fortune. This type is out to make a buck.

Addison DeWitt: She is the wife of a playwright, therefore of the theater by marriage. Nothing in her background or breeding should have brought her any closer to the stage than Row E, Center. However, during her senior year at Radcliffe, Lloyd Richards lectured on the drama. The following year, Karen became Mrs. Lloyd Richards.

Addison DeWitt: To those of you who do not read, attend the theater, listen to unsponsored radio programs or know anything of the world in which you live - it is perhaps necessary to introduce myself. My name is Addison De Witt. My native habitat is the theater. In it, I toil not, neither do I spin. I am a critic and commentator. I am essential to the theater.

Addison DeWitt: [At the time of the film's making, the Sarah Siddons Awards were fictitious, but the screenplay's reference inspired their [[w:Sarah Siddons Award|creation in 1952; [w:Theater in Chicago|theatrical productions in Chicago] * ] for ].]

Addison DeWitt: [[w:Pulitzer Prize|Pulitzer Prize; playwright Lloyd Richards and director Bill Sampson are briefly viewed] The Sarah Siddons Award for Distinguished Achievement is perhaps unknown to you. It has been spared the sensational and commercial publicity that attends such questionable honors as the ] - and those awards presented annually by that film society. This is the dining hall of the Sarah Siddons Society. The occasion is its annual banquet and presentation of the highest honor our theater knows - the Sarah Siddons Award for Distinguished Achievement...The minor awards, as you can see, have already been presented. Minor awards are for such as the writer and director since their function is merely to construct a tower so that the world can applaud a light which flashes on top of it. And no brighter light has ever dazzled the eye than Eve Harrington. Eve. But more of Eve later, all about Eve, in fact.

Carol Fisher: This is Scott ffolliott, newspaperman same as you. Foreign correspondent. Mr. Haverstock, Mr. ffolliott.

Scott ffolliott: With a double F'.

John Jones: How do you do?

Scott ffolliott: How do you do?

John Jones: I don't get the double F'.

Scott ffolliott: They're at the beginning. Both small F's

John Jones: They can't be at the beginning.

Scott ffolliott: [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII] One of my ancestors was beheaded by ]. His wife dropped the capital letter to commemorate it. There it is.

John Jones: How do you say it, like a stutter?

Scott ffolliott: No, just a straight fuh'.

Scott ffolliott: Tell me. Who has he shot?

John Jones: Van Meer - Assassinated.

Scott ffolliott: Dead?

John Jones: Looked like it.

Scott ffolliott: Bad show.

John Jones: Couldn't be much worse from his point of view.