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

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.

The only way to find the best actor would be to let everybody play Hamlet and let the best man win.

Errol Flynn and I are the only ones left who do any good old hell raising.

(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.

"The whole world is three drinks behind. If everyone in the world would take three drinks, we would have no trouble. If Stalin, Truman and everybody else in the world had three drinks right now, we’d all loosen up and we wouldn’t need the United Nations.

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