Humphrey Bogart movie quotes

“She doesn’t give a damn how she looks. I don’t think she tries to be a character. I think she is one.”
Humphrey Bogart On Katharine Hepburn

“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.”
Humphrey Bogart On Ingrid Bergman

“All you owe the public is a good performance.”
Humphrey Bogart

“Well everybody in Casablanca has problems. Yours may work out.”
Humphrey Bogart - Rick Blaine

- Leda Hamilton: If you only had kept out of this... you've messed up everything.
- "Gloves" Donahue: I'm ashamed of myself.
Kaaren Verne - Leda Hamilton
Humphrey Bogart - "Gloves" Donahue

“The only reason to have money is to tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.”
Humphrey Bogart

“We didn't exactly believe your story, Miss O'Shaughnessy. We believed your 200 dollars. I mean, you paid us more than if you had been telling us the truth, and enough more to make it all right.”
Humphrey Bogart - Samuel Spade

“Why the hell don't they hire some of the old ones? All those bastards at the studios are trying to do is find fifty-dollar-a-week Gables, Coopers, and Bogarts.”

Humphrey Bogart

“I came out here with one suit and everybody said I looked like a bum. Twenty years later Marlon Brando came out with only a sweatshirt and the town drooled over him. That shows how much Hollywood has progressed.”
Humphrey Bogart

“- Alberta Marlow: I'm not so obsessed with money as you seem to be. I can do without it.
- Rick Leland: You stick around with me and you'll get plenty of practice.”
Mary Astor - Alberta Marlow
Humphrey Bogart - Rick Leland

“- Victor Laszlo: I ask only one thing. You won't give me the letters of transit: all right, but I want my wife to be safe. I ask you as a favor, to use the letters to take her away from Casablanca.
- Rick Blaine: You love her that much?
- Victor Laszlo: Apparently you think of me only as the leader of a cause. I'm also a human being. Yes, I love...” (continue)(continue reading)

Paul Henreid - Victor Laszlo
Humphrey Bogart - Rick Blaine

“- George Halley: I don't trust any of my friends.
- Panama Smith: The feeling's mutual, George. They don't trust you either.”
Humphrey Bogart - George Hally
Gladys George - Panama Smith

“Hey Doc... anybody ever tell you that you're a pretty good lookin' doll? I don't go for dolls as a rule. They're just something nice to have around the house like cats and dogs and pets and things. You got brains.”

Humphrey Bogart - Joe Gurney

“Everybody has bad luck with me.”
Humphrey Bogart - Rick Leland

“- Big Mac: Times have sure changed.
- Roy Earle: You know, Mac, sometimes I feel like I don't know what it's all about anymore.”
Donald MacBride - Big Mac
Humphrey Bogart - Roy Earle

“The trick is, how much scaring can you take?”

Humphrey Bogart - Lt. Joe Rossi

“That's the word of God. And it's good. But I don't think He'd mind if I put my oar in. These are eight men we knew and liked, guys like us. Guys we ate with and slept with and fought with. We were just a little luckier than they were. We'll miss them. All of them.”

Humphrey Bogart - Lt. Joe Rossi

“- Lt. Joe Rossi: These nights are killers, aren't they?
- Cadet Ezra Parker: Yeah, I lie in my bunk with my clothes on and try to sleep, but every time that engine slows, my heart speeds up. In time, I think I can train myself to have an iron nerve, like you have.”
Humphrey Bogart - Lt. Joe Rossi
Dick Hogan - Cadet Ezra Parker

- Sam Spade: You won't need much of anybody's help. You're good. Chiefly your eyes, I think, and that throb you get in your voice when you say things like "Be generous, Mr. Spade".
- Brigid O'Shaughnessy: I deserve that. But the lie was in the way I said it, not at all in what I said. It's my own fault if you can't believe me now.

Humphrey Bogart - Samuel Spade
Mary Astor - Brigid O'Shaughnessy

“- Eddie: Hey, boss, where am I gonna pick up a typewriter at this time of the night? The stores are all closed!
- Joe Gurney: Well, open one!”
Murray Alper - Eddie
Humphrey Bogart - Joe Gurney

“I spent most of my time since I grew up in jail - it looks like I'll spend the rest of my life dead.”
Humphrey Bogart - Duke Mantee

“- Capt. M. Renard: What are your sympathies?
- Harry Morgan: Minding my own business.”
Dan Seymour - Capt. M. Renard
Humphrey Bogart - Harry Morgan

“- Ilsa Lund: That was the day the Germans marched into Paris.
- Rick Blaine: Not an easy day to forget. I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray, you wore blue.
- Ilsa Lund: Yes. I put that dress away. When the Germans march out, I'll wear it again.”

Ingrid Bergman - Ilsa Lund
Humphrey Bogart - Rick Blaine

“I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.”
Humphrey Bogart

“I don't care what your secrets are. But I can't go ahead without more confidence in you than I've got now. You've got to convince me that you know what this is all about, that you aren't just fiddling around, hoping that it will all come out right in the end.”

Humphrey Bogart - Samuel Spade