Top 23 Humphrey Bogart Quotes About Life (ACTOR)

Top 10 Most Famous Humphrey Bogart Quotes (BEST)

“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

I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me. — I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you **loved** me.

I gave up drinking once - it was the worst afternoon of my entire life. — I gave up drinking once – it was the worst afternoon of my entire **life**.

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

Ain’t nothing a man can’t do if he believes in himself. — Ain’t nothing a man can’t do if he **believes** in himself.

“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. 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

There is more to talking than just words.

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

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

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

4 Humphrey Bogart Quotes on Money

“Making money isn’t the main point of business. Money is a by-product…. A new product has been found, something of use to the world. A new industry moves into an undeveloped area. Factories go up, machines go in and you’re in business. It’s coincidental that people who’ve never seen a dime now have a dollar and barefooted kids wear shoes and have their faces washed. What’s wrong with an urge that gives people libraries, hospitals, baseball diamonds and movies on a Saturday night?”
Humphrey Bogart

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

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

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

6 Humphrey Bogart Quotes that Will Make You Think

“Unless you really understand the water, and understand the reason for being on it, and understand the love of sailing and the feeling of quietness and solitude, you don’t really belong on a boat anyway. I think Hemingway said one time that the sea is the last free place on earth.”
Humphrey Bogart

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

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

“Physically, I’m not tough. I may think tough. I would say I’m kinda tough and calloused inside. I could use a foot more in height and fifty more pounds and fifteen years off my age and then God help all you bastards.”
Humphrey Bogart

Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.

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

3 Humphrey Bogart Quotes on Alcohol

“She [Katharine Hepburn] 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.”
Humphrey Bogart