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

(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.

It is at least worth arguing that there is a modicum of the creative novelist in all of us, and that this absorption with how men get out of difficulties, single-handedly and alone if possible, is the stuff of which we weave the warp and woof of our own better dramatic imaginings.

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

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

I always cry at weddings, especially my own.

A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz.