You're too short for that gesture. Besides, it went out with Mrs. Fiske
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Addison DeWitt:
What do you take me for? Eve:
I don't know that I'd take you for anything. Addison DeWitt:
Is it possible, even conceivable, that you've confused me with that gang of backward children you play tricks on, that you have the same contempt for me as you have for them? Eve:
I'm sure you mean something by that, Addison, but I don't know what. Addison DeWitt:
Look closely, Eve. It's time you did. I am Addison DeWitt. I am nobody's fool, least of all yours. Eve:
I never intended you to be. Addison DeWitt:
Yes you did, and you still do. Eve:
I still don't know what you're getting at, but right now I want to take my nap. It's important... Addison DeWitt:
It's important right now that we talk, killer to killer. Eve:
Champion to champion. Addison DeWitt:
Not with me, you're no champion. You're stepping way up in class. Eve:
Addison, will you please say what you have to say, plainly and distinctly, and then get out, so I can take my nap? Addison DeWitt:
Very well - plainly and distinctly - though I consider it unnecessary because you know as well as I do what I'm going to say: Lloyd may leave Karen, but he will not leave Karen for you. Eve:
What do you mean by that? Addison DeWitt:
More plainly and more distinctly: I have not come to New Haven to see the play, discuss your dreams, or pull the ivy from the walls of Yale. I have come here to tell you that you will not marry Lloyd, or anyone else for that matter, because I will not permit it. Eve:
What have you got to do with it? Addison DeWitt:
Everything, because after tonight, you will belong to me. Eve:
Belong? To you? I can't believe my ears! Addison DeWitt:
What a dull cliché. Eve:
Belong to you - why, that sounds medieval, something out of an old melodrama! Addison DeWitt:
So does the history of the world for the past twenty years. I don't enjoy putting it as bluntly as this. Frankly, I'd hoped that somehow you would have known, that you would have Taken it for granted that you and I... Eve:
Taken it for granted that you and I... [laughs] Addison DeWitt:
[slaps her]
Now, remember, as long as you live, never to laugh at me - at anything or anyone else, but never at me. Eve:
[walks to the door and opens it]
Get out! Addison DeWitt:
You're too short for that gesture. Besides, it went out with Mrs. Fiske
What do you take me for? Eve:
I don't know that I'd take you for anything. Addison DeWitt:
Is it possible, even conceivable, that you've confused me with that gang of backward children you play tricks on, that you have the same contempt for me as you have for them? Eve:
I'm sure you mean something by that, Addison, but I don't know what. Addison DeWitt:
Look closely, Eve. It's time you did. I am Addison DeWitt. I am nobody's fool, least of all yours. Eve:
I never intended you to be. Addison DeWitt:
Yes you did, and you still do. Eve:
I still don't know what you're getting at, but right now I want to take my nap. It's important... Addison DeWitt:
It's important right now that we talk, killer to killer. Eve:
Champion to champion. Addison DeWitt:
Not with me, you're no champion. You're stepping way up in class. Eve:
Addison, will you please say what you have to say, plainly and distinctly, and then get out, so I can take my nap? Addison DeWitt:
Very well - plainly and distinctly - though I consider it unnecessary because you know as well as I do what I'm going to say: Lloyd may leave Karen, but he will not leave Karen for you. Eve:
What do you mean by that? Addison DeWitt:
More plainly and more distinctly: I have not come to New Haven to see the play, discuss your dreams, or pull the ivy from the walls of Yale. I have come here to tell you that you will not marry Lloyd, or anyone else for that matter, because I will not permit it. Eve:
What have you got to do with it? Addison DeWitt:
Everything, because after tonight, you will belong to me. Eve:
Belong? To you? I can't believe my ears! Addison DeWitt:
What a dull cliché. Eve:
Belong to you - why, that sounds medieval, something out of an old melodrama! Addison DeWitt:
So does the history of the world for the past twenty years. I don't enjoy putting it as bluntly as this. Frankly, I'd hoped that somehow you would have known, that you would have Taken it for granted that you and I... Eve:
Taken it for granted that you and I... [laughs] Addison DeWitt:
[slaps her]
Now, remember, as long as you live, never to laugh at me - at anything or anyone else, but never at me. Eve:
[walks to the door and opens it]
Get out! Addison DeWitt:
You're too short for that gesture. Besides, it went out with Mrs. Fiske
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What have you got to do with it Everything
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Because after tonight you will belong to me
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Belong To you
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I can't believe my ears
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A dull clich
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Belong to you
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That sounds medieval Something out of an old melodrama
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So does the history of the world for the past 20 years
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I don't enjoy putting it this bluntly
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I'd hoped that you would have taken it for granted that you and I
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Taken it for granted
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That you and I
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Now remember as long as you live never to laugh at me
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At anything or anyone else but never at me
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Get out You're too short for that gesture
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Besides it went out with Mrs Fiske
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Movie Summary
A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.
Actors
Addison Dewitt
Eve Harrington
