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

I’m not good-looking. I used to be, but not anymore. Not like Robert Taylor. What I have got is I have character in my face. It’s taken an awful lot of late nights and drinking to put it there. When I go to work in a picture, I say, ‘Don’t take the lines out of my face. Leave them there.’

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.

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

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

the problems of three little people in a big world don't add up to much

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