Humphrey Bogart Quotes
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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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I can't say I ever loved my mother; I admired her.
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Rick: Here's looking at you, kid.
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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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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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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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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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Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part.
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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 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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You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.
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A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz.
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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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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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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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Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains!
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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 way to find the best actor would be to let everybody play Hamlet and let the best man win.
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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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People who don't drink are afraid of revealing themselves.
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Ain’t nothing a man can’t do if he believes in himself.