How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from All About Eve.
Quote #1
ADDISON (V.O.): The Sarah Siddons Award for Distinguished Achievement is perhaps unknown to you. It has been spared the sensational and commercial publicity that attends such questionable "honors" as the Pulitzer Prize and those awards presented annually by the film society...
Addison DeWitt is the ultimate theatre snob. He believes the Sarah Siddons Award is superior—because theater is superior—and he relishes its relative obscurity, yet at the same time he slyly demeans the audience by talking down to them about this unknown award.
Quote #2
ADDISON: The minor awards, as you can see, have already been presented. Minor awards are for such as the writer and director, since their function is merely to construct a tower so that the world can applaud a light which flashes on top of it and no brighter light has ever dazzled the eye than Eve Harrington. Eve... but more of Eve, later. All about Eve, in fact.
Addison tells us that the writer and director are viewed just as scaffolding for an actress to climb atop. This is Addison's stab at the idea of celebrity, when it's really the writers and directors who create the art but don't get the glory. There are plenty of arguments in the movie about this. Do you know who wrote the screenplay for The Hunger Games or American Sniper?