Humphrey Bogart Quotes

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

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

The only thing you owe the public is a good performance.

The whole world is three drinks behind. If everyone in the world would take three drinks, we would have no trouble.

Here’s looking at you, kid.

The stuff that dreams are made of.

The battles you fight in life, you only win yourself.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

I always try to be a better actor than I was the last picture.

I’m not good-looking. I used to be but not anymore. Not like Robert Taylor. What I have got is I have character in my face.

The problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

You’re not a movie star until you can show a gun.

When blizzard brings color to black and white films.

All you owe the audience is a good performance.

In this life, I have had no regrets.

A good film script, you can’t turn it into a good picture. You just can’t.

When you’re slapped, you’ll take it and like it.

I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.

The only thing you can guarantee in life is uncertainty.

Misery and insecurity are the keys to success.*

The only thing worse than a bad guy is a bad guy who is also a snob.

Success is just being able to show up to work and do your job.

If a director didn’t demand something of me, I’d demand it of myself.

You don’t live with me. You live among the remains of dead people.

Only talent will get you so far.

In this business, until you’re known as a bastard, you’re not considered a star.

I’m not a hero. I may be wrong, but I’m not a hero.

Do everything you can, for everything you get.

I don’t think there’s much point in your pointing out my mistakes, quoting the rules, or telling me how you’re going to report me to the Ultimate Authority.

I’m not a smart man, but I know what decency is.

The problem with the world is that the idiots are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

I don’t think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actor and the man.

The only thing you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

If I have to be typecast, I’d like it to be as an actor who always played characters who were forced to do horrible things against their will.

Show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser.

The only lesson one can learn from history is that nobody learns lessons from history.

The past is a sword, and we are its victims.

You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

You can get much further with a kind word and a gun, than you can with a kind word alone.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

I don’t want your pity. What I want is to be left alone.

The only thing I’m not able to do is make a happy film.

The poor kids, they never had a chance.

I’d rather be an hour early than a minute late.

Just do the same thing over when you’re in a tight spot.

I don’t mind a reasonable yell of warning occasionally.

I was afraid you got out of the habit of using it.

You’re gonna need to make a stall, and be quick about it.

I’d better slow down. I’ve been liked before.

The only trap I can possibly think of is … you.