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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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