Joan Crawford: 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?
Robert Aldrich: 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.