There are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade.

"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.

Sinatra’s idea of paradise is a place where there are plenty of women and no newspapermen. He doesn’t know it, but he’d be better off if it were the other way around.

Major Strasser: You give him (Rick Blaine) credit for too much cleverness. My impression was that he's just another blundering American. Captain Renault: We musn't underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918.

This guy (Marlon Brando) - he'll be doing Hamlet when the rest of us are selling potatoes.

It's a good thing [James] Dean died when he did. If he'd lived, he'd never have been able to live up to the publicity.

I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.