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American actor (d. 1957), Birth: 25-12-1899, Death: 14-1-1957 Humphrey Bogart Quotes
1.
I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.
Humphrey Bogart

'My existence began when your lips touched mine. My heart expired as soon as you walked away. I cherished a few weeks of bliss while your affection enveloped me.'
2.
The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
Humphrey Bogart

The issue with the world is that everyone is a step or two short of sobriety.
3.
I’m not good-looking. I used to be, but not anymore. Not like Robert Taylor. What I have got is I have character in my face. It’s taken an awful lot of late nights and drinking to put it there. When I go to work in a picture, I say, ‘Don’t take the lines out of my face. Leave them there.’
Humphrey Bogart

4.
Unless you really understand the water, and understand the reason for being on it, and understand the love of sailing and the feeling of quietness and solitude, you don't really belong on a boat anyway. I think Hemingway said one time that the sea is the last free place on earth.
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5.
I gave up drinking once -- it was the worst afternoon of my entire life.
Humphrey Bogart

I abandoned alcohol consumption once -- it was the most awful day of my life.
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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.
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7.
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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8.
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.
Humphrey Bogart

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9.
(On Bette Davis) Even when I was carrying a gun, she scared the be-jesus out of me.
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10.
Ain’t nothing a man can’t do if he believes in himself.
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11.
I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.
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12.
What's at the end of a million dollars? Zero, zero, zero... nothing. A circle with a hole in it.
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13.
Rick: Here's looking at you, kid.
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14.
Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains!
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15.
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?
Humphrey Bogart

16.
A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz.
Humphrey Bogart

17.
All you owe the public is a good performance.
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18.
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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19.
(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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20.
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.
Humphrey Bogart

21.
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.
Humphrey Bogart

22.
The only reason to make a million dollars in this business is to tell some fat producer to go to hell.
Humphrey Bogart

23.
The problem with this world is, everyone in it is 3 drinks behind.
Humphrey Bogart

24.
Major Strasser: You give him (Rick Blaine) credit for too much cleverness. My impression was that he's just another blundering American. Captain Renault: We musn't underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918.
Humphrey Bogart

25.
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.
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26.
Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.
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27.
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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28.
Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.
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29.
You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.
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30.
(on Warner Brothers) This studio has more suspensions than the Golden Gate Bridge.
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31.
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.
Humphrey Bogart

32.
There is more to talking than just words.
Humphrey Bogart

33.
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.
Humphrey Bogart

34.
I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning.
Humphrey Bogart

35.
[On the House Un-American Activities Committee] They'll nail anyone who ever scratched his ass during the National Anthem.
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36.
I let my drinking do the talking.
Humphrey Bogart

37.
Ugarte: You despise me, don't you? Rick Blaine: If I gave you any thought I probably would.
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38.
I always cry at weddings, especially my own.
Humphrey Bogart

39.
The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.
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40.
The only thing money is good for is to buy your freedom.
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41.
The whole world is about three drinks behind.
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42.
People who don't drink are afraid of revealing themselves.
Humphrey Bogart

43.
(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."
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44.
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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45.
the problems of three little people in a big world don't add up to much
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46.
I stick my neck out for *nobody*!
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47.
This guy (Marlon Brando) - he'll be doing Hamlet when the rest of us are selling potatoes.
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48.
Errol Flynn and I are the only ones left who do any good old hell raising.
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49.
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.
Humphrey Bogart

50.
I can't say I ever loved my mother; I admired her.
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