Humphrey Bogart Quotes

I gave up drinking once -- it was the worst afternoon of my entire life.

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

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

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

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

There is more to talking than just words.

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.

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

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.

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’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.’

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.

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

The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

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

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

I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.

Rick: Here's looking at you, kid.

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?

Everybody has something to conceal.

(On Bette Davis) Even when I was carrying a gun, she scared the be-jesus out of me.

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

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

I always cry at weddings, especially my own.