Humphrey Bogart Quotes

Ain't nothing a man can't do if he believes in himself.

Rick: Here's looking at you, kid.

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.

Physically, I'm not tough. I may think tough. I would say I'm kinda tough and calloused inside. I could use a foot more in height and fifty more pounds and fifteen years off my age and then God help all you bastards.

I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.

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.

Everybody has something to conceal.

What's at the end of a million dollars? Zero, zero, zero ... nothing. A circle with a hole in it.

The only thing money is good for is to buy your freedom.

I can't say I ever loved my mother; I admired her.

Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains!

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

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.

Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part.

A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz.

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.

Making money isn't the main point of business. Money is a by-product ... A new product has been found, something of use to the world. A new industry moves into an undeveloped area. Factories go up, machines go in and you're in business. It's coincidental that people who've never seen a dime now have a dollar and barefooted kids wear shoes and have their faces washed. What's wrong with an urge that gives people libraries, hospitals, baseball diamonds and movies on a Saturday night?

The trouble with the world is that it's always one drink behind.

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.

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

The only thing you owe the public is a good performance.

Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.

This guy (Marlon Brando) - he'll be doing Hamlet when the rest of us are selling potatoes.

(On Ingrid Bergman) "I didn't do anything I've never done before, but when the camera moves in on that Bergman face, and she's saying she loves you, it would make anybody feel romantic."

I always cry at weddings, especially my own.

There is more to talking than just words.

People who don't drink are afraid of revealing themselves.

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.

I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.

It's a good thing [James] Dean died when he did. If he'd lived, he'd never have been able to live up to the publicity.

That's baseball, and it's my game. Y' know, you take your worries to the game, and you leave 'em there. You yell like crazy for your guys. It's good for your lungs, gives you a lift, and nobody calls the cops. Pretty girls, lots of 'em.

I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.

The only way to find the best actor would be to let everybody play Hamlet and let the best man win.

Well everybody in Casablanca has problems. Yours may work out.

Rick Blaine: We'll always have Paris. We didn't have Paris, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night. Ilsa Lund: When I said I would never leave you ... Rick Blaine: And you never will. But I got a job to do too. Where I'm going you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now ... here's looking at you kid.

Ah, nuts. I'm an actor. I just do what comes naturally.

Of all the gin joints in the world, she had to walk into mine
Casablanca

I let my drinking do the talking.