(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. Humphrey Bogart More Quotes by Humphrey Bogart More Quotes From Humphrey Bogart The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind. Humphrey Bogart drinking beer book I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me. Humphrey Bogart you-left-me week love I gave up drinking once -- it was the worst afternoon of my entire life. Humphrey Bogart afternoon worst drinking 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. Humphrey Bogart crazy jobs kids 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 taken drinking character Things are never so bad they can't be made worse. Humphrey Bogart inspiration made 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. Humphrey Bogart sea water thinking 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. Humphrey Bogart acting sex people Ain’t nothing a man can’t do if he believes in himself. Humphrey Bogart ifs men believe 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 feet years thinking Rick: Here's looking at you, kid. Humphrey Bogart kids children (On Bette Davis) Even when I was carrying a gun, she scared the be-jesus out of me. Humphrey Bogart scared gun jesus I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis. Humphrey Bogart bad-ass halloween drinking What's at the end of a million dollars? Zero, zero, zero... nothing. A circle with a hole in it. Humphrey Bogart dollars circles zero Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains! Humphrey Bogart gun brain sleep 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 baseball kids moving All you owe the public is a good performance. Humphrey Bogart performances excellence A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz. Humphrey Bogart baseball dog life The problem with this world is, everyone in it is 3 drinks behind. Humphrey Bogart problem vices world 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 novelists creative men