Ugarte: You despise me, don't you? Rick Blaine: If I gave you any thought I probably would.

Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.

I can't say I ever loved my mother; I admired her.

I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning.

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

Ugarte: You despise me, don't you? Rick Blaine: If I gave you any thought I probably would.

I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.