Top 81 Quotes About Humphrey Bogart
#1. 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
#2. I'll see anything that Humphrey Bogart did. Weird, quirky, I know but that's the way it is.
Julie Halston
#3. If you've got the body and the chutzpah, a pencil skirt is so sexy on older women. Look for ones that fall just below the knee. Think 1940s, cinched-in jackets - imagine you are Lauren Bacall on a date with Humphrey Bogart and you just absolutely have to wear very high heels.
Twiggy
#4. '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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply.
Lauren Bacall
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. My favorite actors when I was a kid were in their '60s. Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne.
Joseph Bologna
#17. 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.
#18. 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
#20. The trouble with the world is that it's always one drink behind.
Humphrey Bogart
#21. 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.
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#24. (On Bette Davis) Even when I was carrying a gun, she scared the be-jesus out of me.
Humphrey Bogart
#25. 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
#26. This guy (Marlon Brando) - he'll be doing Hamlet when the rest of us are selling potatoes.
Humphrey Bogart
#30. I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
Humphrey Bogart
#31. 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.
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#33. On the House Un-American Activities Committee: They'll nail anyone who ever scratched his ass during the National Anthem.
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#35. 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
#36. (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."
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#37. 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.
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#39. To put it simply: There was no bunk about Bogie. He was a man.
Katharine Hepburn
#42. 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.
Humphrey Bogart
#43.
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.
Humphrey Bogart
#44. 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
#45. [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
#46. I've been around a long time. Maybe the people like me.
Humphrey Bogart
#47. Ain't nothing a man can't do if he believes in himself.
Humphrey Bogart
#48. The only way to find the best actor would be to let everybody play Hamlet and let the best man win.
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#49. 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
#50. (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.
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#51. Errol Flynn and I are the only ones left who do any good old hell raising.
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#52. 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.
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#53. I gave up drinking once
it was the worst afternoon of my entire life.
Humphrey Bogart
#56. Well everybody in Casablanca has problems. Yours may work out.
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#57. An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.
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#58. You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.
Humphrey Bogart
#59. The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.
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#60. The problem with this world is, everyone in it is 3 drinks behind.
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#61. The only thing money is good for is to buy your freedom.
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#62. 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
#63. 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.
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#64. 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.
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#66. There are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade.
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#67. (on Warner Brothers) This studio has more suspensions than the Golden Gate Bridge.
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#68. Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part.
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#69. Ah, nuts. I'm an actor. I just do what comes naturally.
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#71. 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
#73. The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.
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#74. The only thing you owe the public is a good performance.
Humphrey Bogart
#75. People who don't drink are afraid of revealing themselves.
Humphrey Bogart
#76. 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
#77. The only reason to make a million dollars in this business is to tell some fat producer to go to hell.
Humphrey Bogart
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. What's at the end of a million dollars? Zero, zero, zero ... nothing. A circle with a hole in it.
Humphrey Bogart
#81. The problems of three little people in a big world don't add up to much
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