Top 100 Bogart's Quotes
#1. I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You'd get a broken arm. So I changed my name to Michael Caine after Humphrey Bogart's 'The Caine Mutiny,' which was playing in the theater across from the telephone booth where I learned that I'd gotten my first TV job.
Michael Caine
#2. As students of the silver screen recall, Bogart's admonition about future regret led Bergman to board the plane and fly away with her husband. Had she stayed with Bogey in Casablanca, she would probably have felt just fine. Not right away, perhaps, but soon, and for the rest of her life.
Daniel M. Gilbert
#4. We create truths by describing, or by re-describing , our beliefs and observations. Our task, and the task of every artist and scientist, is to re-describe our inherited assumptions and invented fictions in order to create new paradigms for the future.
Anne Bogart
#5. Why Hollywood has killed so many movie stars with cigarette smoking, with the romanticization of it from John Wayne to Humphrey Bogart, all those people had cancer, died of it, and sold cigarettes their whole career.
Chris Hayes
#6. One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
Manny Farber
#7. I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart.
Ingrid Bergman
#8. I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
Humphrey Bogart
#9. I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies.
Patrick Macnee
#10. 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
#11. I was doing my best Bogart, but I was having trouble getting into her jeans.
Jackson Browne
#12. The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply.
Leo Bogart
#13. Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he wrote a script, and that was your movie. I think that's been watered down a bit lately.
Peter Dinklage
#14. When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything.
Dennis Farina
#15. It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart: you came in on a bumpy little plane, and, for some mysterious reason, got a private room with balcony overlooking the town and the harbor; then you sat there and drank until something happened.
Hunter S. Thompson
#18. Dear God in Heaven, I've been a good woman. When I die, all I want is Humphrey Bogart and Matt Damon feeding me grapes, all day long.
Kelly Harms
#19. There are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade.
Humphrey Bogart
#21. The problems of three little people in a big world don't add up to much
Humphrey Bogart
#22. What's at the end of a million dollars? Zero, zero, zero ... nothing. A circle with a hole in it.
Humphrey Bogart
#23. Whether in a white dinner jacket or in a trench coat and a snap-brim fedora, he became a new and timely symbol of the post-Pearl Harbor American: tough but compassionate, skeptical yet idealistic, betrayed yet ready to believe again, and above all, a potentially deadly opponent.
Ann M. Sperber
#24. I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.
Dorothy B. Hughes
#25. The only reason to make a million dollars in this business is to tell some fat producer to go to hell.
Humphrey Bogart
#26. 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
#27. 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.
Humphrey Bogart
#28. 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
#29. [Lauren Bacall] and Bogie seemed to have the most enormous opinion of each other's charms, and when they fought it was with the utter confidence of two cats locked deliciously in the same cage.
Katharine Hepburn
#30. (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."
Humphrey Bogart
#31. 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.
Humphrey Bogart
#32. 'The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of the women go for an honest but not unwilling private sleuth (Humphrey Bogart).
Manny Farber
#33. The trouble with the world is that it's always one drink behind.
Humphrey Bogart
#34. 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
#35. She had so painfully reared three sons to be Christian gentlemen that one of them had become an Omaha bartender, one a professor of Greek, and one, Cyrus N. Bogart, a boy of fourteen who was still at home, the most brazen member of the toughest gang in Boytown.
Sinclair Lewis
#38. I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn ...
Ian Shoales
#39. (On Bette Davis) Even when I was carrying a gun, she scared the be-jesus out of me.
Humphrey Bogart
#40. Disco is a major influence in the world of fashion.
Neil Bogart
#41. I've always tried to learn from the greats: Orson Welles, Humphrey Bogart, Ghandi, Buddha, Jesus ... it's just that there's this tremendous pressure to correct all the things they got wrong.
Zach Braff
#42. In my opinion, fun is what makes advertising successful.
Leo Bogart
#43. To make any relationship work we need patience, ceaseless striving to communicate more clearly with one another, and tolerance of imperfections.
Greg Bogart
#44. This guy (Marlon Brando) - he'll be doing Hamlet when the rest of us are selling potatoes.
Humphrey Bogart
#46. There's a trend toward anti-heroes now, and I think it goes back to guys like Bogart and Cagney. They seemed to have no compassion, and they were always alone.
Jim Brown
#48. Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me.
Sylvester Stallone
#49. I wanted to live where I could pop to the bar that Humphrey Bogart took Lauren Bacall to, or the little restaurant where Charlie Chaplin had a booth.
Ashley Jensen
#50. Advertisements may be evaluated scientifically; they cannot be created scientifically.
Leo Bogart
#51. You cannot hide; your growth as an artist is not separate from your growth as a human being: it is all visible.
Anne Bogart
#52. An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.
Humphrey Bogart
#53. Howard Hawks said he'd like to put me in a film with Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart. I thought, "Cary Grant-terrific! Humphrey Bogart-yucch."
Lauren Bacall
#54. Art is violent. To be decisive is violent ... To place a chair at a partial angle on the stage destroys every other possible choice, every other option.
Anne Bogart
#55. The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
Jack Huston
#56. The problem with this world is, everyone in it is 3 drinks behind.
Humphrey Bogart
#57. The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.
Humphrey Bogart
#58. I loved all those classic figures from the '30s and '40s ... Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Humphrey Bogart, Rita Hayworth. They had such glamour and style. I loved the movies of those times too - so much attention paid to details, lights, clothing, the way the studios would develop talent.
Grace Jones
#59. Katharine Hepburn said it best. 'Nature', she says majestically to Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, 'is what we are put in this world to rise above.' The
Jonathan Sacks
#60. My favorite actors when I was a kid were in their '60s. Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne.
Joseph Bologna
#61. If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype.
Neil Bogart
#62. You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.
Humphrey Bogart
#63. A gym for the soul is a place where personal investment is required and the return is real.
Anne Bogart
#64. What future is there for a female child who aspires to being Humpfrey Bogart?
Joanna Russ
#65. The only thing money is good for is to buy your freedom.
Humphrey Bogart
#66. Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#67. Well everybody in Casablanca has problems. Yours may work out.
Humphrey Bogart
#69. The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort of masculine without being overly macho.
Michael Caine
#70. I'll see anything that Humphrey Bogart did. Weird, quirky, I know but that's the way it is.
Julie Halston
#71. Jamie popped a handful of Skittles into his bottle of Grolsch. He took a swig and savoured the tangy sweets shrinking in his mouth. He glanced up at the pictures on the pub wall: Alexander Graham Bell, Busby the bird and Sam Spade. The picture of Bogart made Jamie want to put a fag in his mouth
Nasser Hashmi
#72. My wife's not some doobie to be passed around! I took a vow on our wedding day to bogart her for life.
Homer
#74. I gave up drinking once
it was the worst afternoon of my entire life.
Humphrey Bogart
#75. 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
#76. Errol Flynn and I are the only ones left who do any good old hell raising.
Humphrey Bogart
#77. Ah, nuts. I'm an actor. I just do what comes naturally.
Humphrey Bogart
#78. When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Where do you get your leeches?" You don't get ideas. Ideas get you.
Connie Willis
#79. Hey, Bogart. You and the wonder twins back off or the bedsheet gets it.
Harry Dresden, Death Masks.
Jim Butcher
#80. In the theatre we reach out and touch the past through literature, history and memory so that we might receive and relive significant and relevant human qualities in the present and then pass them on to future generations.
Anne Bogart
#81. The only thing you owe the public is a good performance.
Humphrey Bogart
#82. It is easy to coast through life rather than find the will to continually reach out into the world. To reach out is to risk. There is little grace in a life that never extends out beyond the boundaries of self
Anne Bogart
#83. Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply.
Lauren Bacall
#84. You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.
Anne Bogart
#85. The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.
Humphrey Bogart
#87. 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
#89. People who don't drink are afraid of revealing themselves.
Humphrey Bogart
#90. Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part.
Humphrey Bogart
#91. "My obit is going to be full of Bogart, I'm sure," she says, adding, "I'll never know if that's true. If that's the way it is, that's the way it is."
Lauren Bacall
#92. (on Warner Brothers) This studio has more suspensions than the Golden Gate Bridge.
Humphrey Bogart
#93. (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
#94. It's a younger generation running the show, and I miss the generation we had in the '70s. They were really very honorable guys, like Neal Bogart and Bill Graham, people who will never be around again.
Peter Criss
#96. He was wearing a gleaming cream-coloured linen suit, and a Panama hat. The weirdest thing about this was that he was not the most outlandish-looking person in the room by a long way. Not that Little Miss Dresses-Like-Bogart over here has a right to complain
Alexis Hall
#97. I'm an incurable romantic, and Casablanca's one of the most romantic pictures I've ever seen - the combination of Bogart and Bergman is just magical.
Ken Adam
#98. 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
#99. 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.
Humphrey Bogart
#100. 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
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