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

"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.

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

[On the House Un-American Activities Committee] They'll nail anyone who ever scratched his ass during the National Anthem.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

Acting is like sex: you either do it and don't talk about it, or you talk about it and don't do it. That's why I'm always suspicious of people who talk too much about either.

I always cry at weddings, especially my own.