The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

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

Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part.

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 Warner Brothers) This studio has more suspensions than the Golden Gate Bridge.

(on Katharine Hepburn) She talks at you as though you were a microphone; she lectured the hell out of me on temperance and the evils of drink. She doesn't give a damn how she looks. I don't think she tries to be a character. I think she is one.

Capt. Renault: What on Earth brought you to Casablanca? Rick Blaine: My health, I came to Casablanca for the waters. Capt. Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert! Rick Blaine: I was misinformed.