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.

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

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

Everybody has something to conceal.

The only reason to make a million dollars in this business is to tell some fat producer to go to hell.

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.

Major Strasser: You give him (Rick Blaine) credit for too much cleverness. My impression was that he's just another blundering American. Captain Renault: We musn't underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918.