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

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.

I let my drinking do the talking.

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

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.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

[On the House Un-American Activities Committee] They'll nail anyone who ever scratched his ass during the National Anthem.