This is a great thread!
I am much too cowardly -- er, kind -- to quote anything from this film. But I have thought some of them!
Besides the ones already mentioned, I like:
"The general atmosphere is very MacBeth-ish."
"Do you want an argument or an answer?"
"Too bad! We'll miss the third act. They're going to play it off stage."
" The gong rang. The fight's over. Calm down."
"Eve would ask Abbott to give her Costello."
"This beats all world's records for running, standing and jumping gall!"
"You're too short for that gesture."
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elena-28
7 years ago
Agree on all, beginning with: "You're too short for that gesture."
"It's time the piano realized it has not written the concerto."
"Poor little flower. Dropped her petals and folded her tent."
"Don't mix your metaphors."
"I'll mix what I like!"
"
ok, mix."
"Then this will be five."
"You are looking at the remains of Margo Channing. Sitting up. It is my final wish to be buried sitting up."
"Look: there's RAS-putin."
"Why do they always look like unhappy rabbits?"
"Because that's what they are. Now go and make him happy."
"Don't cry. Score it as an incomplete forward pass."
"One day you're going to get in that girdle and act for two hours."
"I couldn't get into the girdle in two hours."
"We now have everything a dressing room needs except a basket hoop."
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practicepiano
7 years ago
"One day you're going to get in that girdle and act for two hours."
"I couldn't get into the girdle in two hours."
That exchange, and the repartee between Margo and Birdie before the party, show what a great pair they were.
BIRDIE
You all put together?
MARGO
My back's open.
(Birdie goes to work on
it)
Did the extra help get here?
BIRDIE
There's some loose characters
dressed like maids and butlers.
Who'd you call - the William Morris
Agency?
MARGO
You're not being funny, I could get
actors for less. What about the
food?
BIRDIE
The caterer had to back for hors
d'oeuvres-
(she zips Margo)
Voila.
MARGO
(laughs)
That French ventriloquist taught
you a lot, didn't he?
BIRDIE
There was nothing he didn't know.
(she starts tidying the
room)
There's a message from the
bartender. Does Miss Channing know
we ordered domestic gin by mistake?
MARGO
The only thing I ordered by mistake
is the guests.
(Birdie cackles)
They're domestic, too, and they
don't care what they drink as long
as it burns... where's Bill? He's
late.
BIRDIE
Late for what?
MARGO
Don't be dense. The party.
BIRDIE
I ain't dense. And he's been here
twenty minutes.
MARGO
Well, I certainly think it's odd he
hasn't even come up...
Her glance meets Birdie's. She turns and strolls out.
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