Humphrey Bogart Quotes

An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.

Humphrey Bogart

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• I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.

  

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• The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

  

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• 'DONALDSON: But on Friday, you were very pessimistic. You said, 'No good,' when someone asked you how things were going.' No, I'm saying even now, if I have to summarize the situation - in one word it's good, in two words, not good.

  

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• People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.

  

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• I would love to play a completely negative character if it's backed by a super script.

  

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• For me, photography only stopped because I was selling books.

  

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• It felt like a series of coincidences and luck that I ended up getting the part in 'Trainspotting,' but it's been an incredible journey since then. Every now and then, I sit and really think about it, and it blows my mind. I have to stop because I don't want my brain to implode.

  

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• I don't know if I'd ever want to show my college life in the films I make. I think I've passed that stage long ago.

  

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• I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.

  

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• I can't imagine, I can't get in the mind of a wrestling fan who wants to break news that spoils a surprise for somebody. Would you want a surprise spoiled?

  

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• If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to get to the good stuff, you need to slow down.

  

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• Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.

  

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• Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

  

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• Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; Oh life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.

  

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• An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.

  

  Humphrey Bogart
  • Personality
  • Needs
  • Actors