How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from All About Eve.
Quote #7
LLOYD: A Hollywood movie star just arrived.
MARGO: Shucks, and I just sent my autograph book to the cleaner.
Great example of the disdain that serious dramatic actors had toward their silver screen counterparts. Not worth the time of day. "Real" actors never got a "take two" or "take twenty-two."
Quote #8
KAREN: Nothing is forever in the Theater. Whatever it is, it's here, it flares up and burns hot, then it's gone.
Since Karen's a relative outsider, not a writer, actor, or director, she's not caught up as much in all the quest for fame and adulation she sees around her. She's seen people come and go, and she sees her good friend Margo looking at the end of her career just because she's 40.
Quote #9
KAREN: A part in a play. You'd do all that just for a part in a play.
EVE: I'd do much more for a part that good.
Karen, as an outsider, is shocked to see just how far Eve would go to get a good part. Eve resorts to blackmail and threatens worse. Could she be taking her art too seriously? Is it even about art at this point?