Humphrey Bogart Quotes
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I can't say I ever loved my mother; I admired her.
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Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.
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I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.
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(On Bette Davis) Even when I was carrying a gun, she scared the be-jesus out of me.
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Ugarte: You despise me, don't you? Rick Blaine: If I gave you any thought I probably would.
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A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz.
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Ain’t nothing a man can’t do if he believes in himself.
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Sinatra’s idea of paradise is a place where there are plenty of women and no newspapermen. He doesn’t know it, but he’d be better off if it were the other way around.
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Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains!
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(on Warner Brothers) This studio has more suspensions than the Golden Gate Bridge.
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I stick my neck out for *nobody*!
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Capt. Renault: What on Earth brought you to Casablanca? Rick Blaine: My health, I came to Casablanca for the waters. Capt. Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert! Rick Blaine: I was misinformed.
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I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning.
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I don't approve of the John Waynes and the Gary Coopers saying "Shucks, I ain't no actor - I'm just a bridge builder or a gas station attendant." If they aren't actors, what the hell are they getting paid for? I have respect for my profession. I worked hard at it.
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Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.
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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.
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Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part.
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People who don't drink are afraid of revealing themselves.
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the problems of three little people in a big world don't add up to much
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Acting is like sex: you either do it and don't talk about it, or you talk about it and don't do it. That's why I'm always suspicious of people who talk too much about either.
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The problem with this world is, everyone in it is 3 drinks behind.
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The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
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(on Katharine Hepburn) She talks at you as though you were a microphone; she lectured the hell out of me on temperance and the evils of drink. She doesn't give a damn how she looks. I don't think she tries to be a character. I think she is one.
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It is at least worth arguing that there is a modicum of the creative novelist in all of us, and that this absorption with how men get out of difficulties, single-handedly and alone if possible, is the stuff of which we weave the warp and woof of our own better dramatic imaginings.