A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz. Humphrey Bogart
Acting is experience with something sweet behind it. Humphrey Bogart
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. Humphrey Bogart
All I ate was baked beans, canned asparagus and Scotch whisky. Whenever a fly bit Huston or me, it dropped dead. (On filming The African Queen.) Humphrey Bogart
All you owe the public is a good performance. (Said to Frank Sinatra.) Humphrey Bogart
As long as they spell your name right and you are not accused of dope or rape, you are all right. (On publicity.) Humphrey Bogart
Democrat in politics, Episcopalian by upbringing, dissenter by disposition. (On himself.) Humphrey Bogart
Even when I was carrying a gun, she scared the be-jesus out of me. (On Bette Davies) Humphrey Bogart
I always cry at weddings, especially my own. Humphrey Bogart
I came out here with one suit and everybody said I looked like a bum. Twenty years later Marlon Brando came out with only a sweatshirt and the town drooled over him. That shows how much Hollywood has progressed. Humphrey Bogart
I can’t say I ever loved my mother, I admired her. Humphrey Bogart
I didn’t do anything [in Casablanca] I’ve never done before, but when the camera moves in on that Bergman face, and she’s saying she loves you, it would make anybody feel romantic. Humphrey Bogart
I don’t approve of the John Waynes and the Gary Coopers saying ‘Shucks, I ain’t no actor — I’m just a bridge builder or a gas station attendant.’ If they aren’t actors, what the hell are they getting paid for? I have respect for my profession. I worked hard at it. Humphrey Bogart
I don’t hurt the industry. The industry hurts itself, by making so many lousy movies – as if General Motors deliberately put out a bad car. Humphrey Bogart
I hate funerals. They aren’t for the guy who’s dead. They’re for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning. Humphrey Bogart
I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history. Humphrey Bogart
I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me. Humphrey Bogart
If a face like Ingrid Bergman’s looks at you as though you’re adorable, everybody does. You don’t have to act very much. Humphrey Bogart
I’m not good-looking. I used to be but not any more. Not like Robert Taylor. What I have got is I have character in my face. It’s taken an awful lot of late nights and drinking to put it there. When I go to work in a picture, I say, ‘Don’t take the lines out of my face. Leave them there.’ Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey Bogart Quotes
People who don’t drink are afraid of revealing themselves. Humphrey Bogart
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. (On Katharine Hepburn.) Humphrey Bogart
She’s a real Joe. You’ll fall in love with her like everybody else. (On Lauren Bacall.) Humphrey Bogart
The only honest way to find the best actor would be to let everybody play Hamlet and let the best man win. Of course, you’d get some pretty funny Hamlets that way. (On the Academy Awards.) Humphrey Bogart
The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go. Humphrey Bogart
The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind. Humphrey Bogart
The way to survive an Oscar is never to try to win another one … too many stars … win it and then figure they have to top themselves … they become afraid to take chances. The result: A lot of dull performances in dull pictures. Humphrey Bogart
They’ll nail anyone who ever scratched his ass during the National Anthem. (On the House Un-American Activities Committee during the McCarthy era.) Humphrey Bogart
Things are never so bad they can’t be made worse. Humphrey Bogart
This studio has more suspensions than the Golden Gate Bridge. (On Warner Bros.) Humphrey Bogart
When the heavy, full of crime and bitterness, grabs his wounds and talks about death and taxes in a husky voice, the audience is his and his alone. Humphrey Bogart