Humphrey Bogart Quotes

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

I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.

The only thing that you owe the public is a good performance.

Things are never so bad they can`t be made worse.

The trouble with the world is that it`s always one drink behind.

Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.

"It`s been misspelt a lot. He decided on it. It`s not Bog-ey. He signed with an -ie. And that`s good enough for me." -

(On Lauren Bacall) "She`s a real Joe. You`ll fall in love with her like everybody else."

(attributed last words) "I should never have switched from scotch to martinis."

(On the House Un-American Activities Committee) "They`ll nail anyone who ever scratched his ass during the National Anthem."

I came out here with one suit and everybody said I looked like a bum. Twenty years later Marlon Brando came out with only a sweatshirt and the town drooled over him. That shows how much Hollywood has progressed.

A hotdog at the ballpark is better than a steak at the Ritz.

(about himself) "Democrat in politics, Episcopalian by upbringing, dissenter by disposition."

I can`t say I ever loved my mother, I admired her.

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.

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

I hate funerals. They aren`t for the guy who`s dead. They`re for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning.

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.

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

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

The whole world is three drinks behind. If everybody in the world would take three drinks, we would have no trouble.

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

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

The only reason to have money is to tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.

I`ve been around a long time. Maybe the people like me.

(On the untrained beefcake stars of the early 1950s, many of them picked up for screen tests from sidewalks and gas stations) "Shout `gas` around the studios today, and half the young male stars will come running."

Well everybody in Casablanca has problems. Yours may work out.

A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.

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

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

Do I subscribe to the (Laurence Olivier) school of acting? Ah, nuts. I`m an actor. I just do what comes naturally.

(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.

When the heavy, full of crime and bitterness, grabs his wounds and talks about death and taxes in a husky voice, the audience is his and his alone.

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.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

The only thing you owe the public is a good performance.

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few 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."

It`s been misspelt a lot. He decided on it. It`s not Bog-ey. He signed with an -ie. And that`s good enough for me.

She`s a real Joe. You`ll fall in love with her like everybody else.

I should never have switched from scotch to martinis.

They`ll nail anyone who ever scratched his ass during the National Anthem.

When the heavy, full of crime and bitterness, grabs his wounds and talks about death and taxes in a husky voice, the audience is his and his alone.

Democrat in politics, Episcopalian by upbringing, dissenter by disposition.

I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.

Shout `gas` around the studios today, and half the young male stars will come running.

"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.

This studio has more suspensions than the Golden Gate Bridge.

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.

Even when I was carrying a gun, she scared the be-jesus out of me.

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.

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