Addison DeWitt: What do you take me for?
Eve Harrington: I don't know that I'd take you for anything.

Addison DeWitt: While you wait you can read my column. It'll make minutes fly like hours.

Addison DeWitt: In [the theatre] I toil not, neither do I spin. I am a critic and commentator. I am essential to the theatre--as ants to a picnic, as the boll weevil to a cotton field.

--George Sanders, as Addison in All About Eve, doing his bit to elevate the public's perception of critics.