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

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

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

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

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

Rick: Here's looking at you, kid.

I gave up drinking once
it was the worst afternoon of my entire life.

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

I stick my neck out for nobody.

I always cry at weddings, especially my own.

You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.

I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning.

I've been around a long time. Maybe the people like me.

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

Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.

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

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

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

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

The only thing money is good for is to buy your freedom.

I can't say I ever loved my mother; I admired her.

I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.

Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains!

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

(On Bette Davis) Even when I was carrying a gun, she scared the be-jesus out of me.

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

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.

Well everybody in Casablanca has problems. Yours may work out.

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

You're a good man, sister

Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

There is more to talking than just words.

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.

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

Ain't nothing a man can't do if he believes in himself.

Ah, nuts. I'm an actor. I just do what comes naturally.

The trouble with the world is that it's always one drink behind.

I let my drinking do the talking.

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.

The problem with this world is, everyone in it is 3 drinks behind.

What's at the end of a million dollars? Zero, zero, zero ... nothing. A circle with a hole in it.

I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.

A hotdog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz

I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.

Everybody has something to conceal.