Humphrey Bogart Quotes
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(on Warner Brothers) This studio has more suspensions than the Golden Gate Bridge.
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Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.
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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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Rick: Here's looking at you, kid.
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Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part.
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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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You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.
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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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Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.
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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 problem with this world is, everyone in it is 3 drinks behind.
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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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I stick my neck out for *nobody*!
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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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the problems of three little people in a big world don't add up to much
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People who don't drink are afraid of revealing themselves.
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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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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.
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Ain’t nothing a man can’t do if he believes in himself.
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Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains!
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The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.