Best 25 quotes of Humphrey Bogart on MyQuotes

Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.

An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.

Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part.

Errol Flynn and I are the only ones left who do any good old hell raising.

I always cry at weddings, especially my own.

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.

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.

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.

I let my drinking do the talking.

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.

(On Ingrid Bergman) "I didn't do anything 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.

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

(on Warner Brothers) This studio has more suspensions than the Golden Gate Bridge.

People who don't drink are afraid of revealing themselves.

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.

That's baseball, and it's my game. Y' know, you take your worries to the game, and you leave 'em there. You yell like crazy for your guys. It's good for your lungs, gives you a lift, and nobody calls the cops. Pretty girls, lots of 'em.

The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

The only reason to make a million dollars in this business is to tell some fat producer to go to hell.

the problems of three little people in a big world don't add up to much

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

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

"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.

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

You're a good man, sister