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Rick: Here's looking at you, kid.
I let my drinking do the talking.
I stick my neck out for *nobody*!
Everybody has something to conceal.
There is more to talking than just words.
I always cry at weddings, especially my own.
All you owe the public is a good performance.
The whole world is about three drinks behind.
Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.
Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains!
I can't say I ever loved my mother; I admired her.
A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz.
Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.
I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.
I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.
Ain’t nothing a man can’t do if he believes in himself.
Ah, nuts. I'm an actor. I just do what comes naturally.
I've been around a long time. Maybe the people like me.
The only thing money is good for is to buy your freedom.
The only thing you owe the public is a good performance.
People who don't drink are afraid of revealing themselves.
You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.
Well everybody in Casablanca has problems. Yours may work out.
The problem with this world is, everyone in it is 3 drinks behind.
The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part.
the problems of three little people in a big world don't add up to much
I gave up drinking once -- it was the worst afternoon of my entire life.
Errol Flynn and I are the only ones left who do any good old hell raising.
The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.
(on Warner Brothers) This studio has more suspensions than the Golden Gate Bridge.
(On Bette Davis) Even when I was carrying a gun, she scared the be-jesus out of me.
This guy (Marlon Brando) - he'll be doing Hamlet when the rest of us are selling potatoes.
Ugarte: You despise me, don't you? Rick Blaine: If I gave you any thought I probably would.
There are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade.
I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.
What's at the end of a million dollars? Zero, zero, zero... nothing. A circle with a hole in it.
The only way to find the best actor would be to let everybody play Hamlet and let the best man win.
The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.
The only reason to make a million dollars in this business is to tell some fat producer to go to hell.
I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning.
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.
If a face like Ingrid Bergman's looks at you as though you're adorable, everybody does. You don't have to act very much.
[On the House Un-American Activities Committee] They'll nail anyone who ever scratched his ass during the National Anthem.
An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.
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.
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.
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.
(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."
There never seems to be any trouble brewing around a bar until a woman puts that high heel over the brass rail. Don't ask me why, but somehow women at bars seem to create trouble among men.