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.

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

I stick my neck out for *nobody*!

Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains!

What's at the end of a million dollars? Zero, zero, zero... nothing. A circle with a hole in it.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

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.