- Mamacita: There is a bright side. You do not need the surplus to pay for your brother, so you are not forced to do the movie with that terrible Miss Davis.
- Joan Crawford: I'm not pulling out of Charlotte now. It has potential.
- Mamacita: It has potential to ruin your life.
- Joan Crawford: What do you want me to do, Mamacita? What, sit here by myself, toasting my memories, hmm?
- Mamacita: There are many pleasures still to enjoy. New friends. You are invited to parties all the time.
- Joan Crawford: I can't show my face without having a picture to discuss. If I'm not working, I might as well be dead. Get some sleep. It's a long flight to Baton Rouge.
- Robert Aldrich: I can't do it, Bette. I can't make this picture.
- Bette Davis: What the hell are you talking about?
- Robert Aldrich: Harriet and I are over.
- Bette Davis: Christ. Is it final?
- Robert Aldrich: Seems to be. She doesn't feel like she's part of my life. The crazy irony is that we were all going to be together on this picture. You know, the kids have all got parts. Adele's working on helping with the script. Harriet was supposed to be here enjoying it with me. Now I'm just looking around and I'm thinking... This has ruined my marriage.
- Bette Davis: I'm not going to candy-coat it. Harriet is a wonderful woman. Losing her is going to be bad, it always is. I know, I've been through it four times. But I survived. And so will you.
- Robert Aldrich: Twenty-four years, Bette. I don't know how to be alone.
- Bette Davis: We'll be alone together.
- Hedda Hopper: Oh, Hedda, darling. I don't have a quiet minute today. I have to convert this dust bowl look to a desert look, work out this awful crick in my neck, and then back on the road for that goddamn Lizzie Borden routine.
- Hedda Hopper: You're not having a gay old time greeting fans coast to coast?
- Joan Crawford: Does a Ringling Brothers elephant have a gay old time?