"The trouble with the world is that it's always one drink behind." "The trouble with Bogart is he thinks he's Bogart." - John Huston. "Acting is experience with something sweet behind it." "Himself, he never took too seriously - his work, most seriously. He regarded the somewhat gaudy figure of Bogart the star with amused cynicism; Bogart the actor he held in deep respect." - John Huston "Bogie himself said that dead is dead and life is for the living and you've got to move on - and if you don't, it's self-indulgent and does the dead no good. He said it dishonoured them because if they gave you so little care for your own life, then they didn't leave you with very much." - Lauren Bacall. "It's been misspelt a lot. He decided on it. It's not Bog-ey. He signed with an -ie. And that's good enough for me." - On Lauren Bacall: "She's a real Joe. You'll fall in love with her like everybody else." [attributed last words] "I should never have switched from scotch to martinis." "He was a dirty rat, but I loved that man." - Ann Sheridan "They'll nail anyone who ever scratched his ass during the National Anthem." [On the House Un-American Activities Committee] "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." "A hotdog at the ballpark is better than a steak at the Ritz." "I'm a one-woman man and I always have been. I guess I'm old-fashioned. May be that's why I like old-fashioned women, the kind who stays in the house playing 'Roamin' in the Gloamin'. They make a man think he's a man and they're glad of it." "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." "Democrat in politics, Episcopalian by upbringing, dissenter by disposition." - On himself "I can't say I ever loved my mother, I admired her." "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." "The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell." "I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning." "The whole world is three drinks behind. If everybody in the world would take three drinks, we would have no trouble." "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." "The only thing you owe the public is a good performance." "You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi." "I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history."