HUMPHREY BOGART

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

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

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.

I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.

You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.

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

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

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

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

Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.

I've been around a long time. Maybe the people like me.

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

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

They'll nail anyone who ever scratched his ass during the National Anthem.

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

I stick my neck out for *nobody*!

"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.

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.

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.

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.

I always cry at weddings, especially my own.

(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."

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?

(on Warner Brothers) This studio has more suspensions than the Golden Gate Bridge.