Quotes About Margo Channing

#1. Bette Davis, she was so brilliant and one of my heroes, but she worked a ton, and then she didn't get All About Eve [1950] until the last minute. Claudette Colbert was supposed to be Margo Channing, but then she broke her back and couldn't do it. That allowed Davis to play her age.

Winona Ryder

#2. Mistakes can be dealt with. Loss of time can't.

Penelope Douglas

#3. How to describe the bitterness? I was a glass, broken, and the space I once enclosed was now the same as the space around. Deserted space, in which I was lost, sharp knives under my feet. With each step it became less likely that I would ever get anywhere.

Milena Michiko Flasar

#4. I am always and at once on the defensive, for example, when people speak of races and nations as if they were personalities and had souls and destinies and such like.

Christopher Hitchens

#5. For their holidays: the rich go see the world; the poor go see their parents.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#6. Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Elbert Hubbard

#7. Christ is to be cherished, not just chosen.

John Piper

#8. I've learned a lot about my voice, and about things I can do with it. Maybe that's why my sound has become a little more pop.

Chely Wright