 Critics responded positively to Davis' performance, and several of her lines became well-known, particularly "Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night".She was again nominated for an Academy Award, and critics such as Gene Ringgold described her Margo as her "all-time best performance".Pauline Kael wrote that much of Mankiewicz' vision of "the theater" was "nonsense", but commended Davis, writing "[the film is] saved by one performance that is the real thing