Humphrey Bogart Quotes
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(on Warner Brothers) This studio has more suspensions than the Golden Gate Bridge.
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"The whole world is three drinks behind. If everyone in the world would take three drinks, we would have no trouble. If Stalin, Truman and everybody else in the world had three drinks right now, we’d all loosen up and we wouldn’t need the United Nations.
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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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Rick: Here's looking at you, kid.
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Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.
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I stick my neck out for *nobody*!
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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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The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.
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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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A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz.
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You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.
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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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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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(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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Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part.
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The problem with this world is, everyone in it is 3 drinks behind.
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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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I don't hurt the industry. The industry hurts itself, by making so many lousy movies - as if General Motors deliberately put out a bad car.
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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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The only reason to make a million dollars in this business is to tell some fat producer to go to hell.
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Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains!
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People who don't drink are afraid of revealing themselves.
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The only way to find the best actor would be to let everybody play Hamlet and let the best man win.
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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.