All About Eve (1950)
Thelma Ritter: Birdie
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Quotes
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Birdie : What a story! Everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end.
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[Bill is saying goodbye to Birdie as he departs for Hollywood]
Bill Sampson : Any messages? What do you want me to tell Tyrone Power?
Birdie : Just give him my phone number; I'll tell him myself.
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Birdie : The bed looks like a dead animal act.
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Birdie : We now got everything a dressing room needs except a basketball hoop.
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Margo : She thinks only of me, doesn't she?
Birdie : Well, let's say she thinks only about you, anyway.
Margo : How do you mean that?
Birdie : I'll tell you how: like... like she's studying you, like you was a play or a book or a set of blueprints - how you walk, talk, eat, think, sleep...
Margo : I'm sure that's very flattering, Birdie. I'm sure there's nothing wrong with it.
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Margo : This is my dear friend and companion, Miss Birdie Coonan.
Birdie : Oh, brother!
Eve : Miss Coonan.
Lloyd Richards : Oh, brother, what?
Birdie : When she gets like this, all of the sudden she's playin' Hamlet's mother.
Margo : I'm sure you must have things to do in the bathroom, Birdie, dear.
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Margo : "I don't think you can rightly say we lost the war. We was more starved out, you might say. That's why I don't understand all these plays about love-starved Southern women. Love was one thing we were never starved for in the South."
Lloyd Richards : Margo's interview with a lady reporter from the South.
Birdie : And the minute it gets printed, they're gonna fire on Gettysburg all over again.
Margo : It was Fort Sumter they fired on.
Birdie : I never played Fort Sumter.