Humphrey Bogart Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Rick: Here's looking at you, kid.

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

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

All you owe the public is a good performance.

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

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

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

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

Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.

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

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

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.

There is more to talking than just words.

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.

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

I let my drinking do the talking.

I always cry at weddings, especially my own.

Ugarte: You despise me, don't you? Rick Blaine: If I gave you any thought I probably would.

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

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

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

(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."

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

An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.

the problems of three little people in a big world don't add up to much

I stick my neck out for *nobody*!

This guy (Marlon Brando) - he'll be doing Hamlet when the rest of us are selling potatoes.

Errol Flynn and I are the only ones left who do any good old hell raising.

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

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.

The only way to find the best actor would be to let everybody play Hamlet and let the best man win.

My father got along with everyone.

Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part.

I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.

There are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade.

My father mainly liked writers. His friends were writers. He wanted to find the writing. That was his main frustration I think.

There are a lot of good actors, and writers out there.

The problem with movies now is that studios don't take a chance.

My father was a great actor.

Good actors need better projects, and these days there aren't enough going round.

There are some actors who can only play themselves, but good actors must really be separated from the people they play.

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.

Ah, nuts. I'm an actor. I just do what comes naturally.

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.

Everybody has something to conceal.