Topical Guide 474
Mark Dorset
Quotation: Movie Lines: “What a Dump”
Reservations Recommended, Chapter 3
ON THE WAY OUT, Belinda pauses at the door, throws the collar of the coat up, spins around to look at the room again, the details of artificial decay, the peeling plaster, the water stain, the tipsy safe, the open wall, and says in her best Bette Davis voice, “What a dump!”
Matthew thinks he may be falling in love.
Here’s the line as Bette Davis delivered it in [see below for the title of the movie]:
Here’s the line as Martha (Elizabeth Taylor) delivered it in the film adaptation of Edward Albee’s play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (screenplay by Ernest Lehman, directed by Mike Nichols):
See also:
Allusion; Quotation TG 140; TG 455; TG 462
Quotation: Misquotation TG 448; Lucretius, De Rerum Natura TG 472
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