Casablanca

• Realizing the importance of the case, my men are rounding up twice the usual number of suspects.

• The leading banker in Amsterdam is now the pastry chef in our kitchen.

• Ugarte: You despise me, don't you?
  Rick: If I gave you any thought I probably would.

• You know, Rick, I have many a friend in Casablanca, but somehow, just because you despise me, you are the only one I trust.

• How extravagant you are, throwing away women like that. Some day they may be scarce.

• I stick my neck out for nobody.

• Captain Renault: Rick, there are many exit visas sold in this café, but we know that you've never sold one. That is the reason we permit you to remain open.
  Rick: Oh? I thought it was because I let you win at roulette.
  Captain Renault: That is another reason.

• No matter how clever he is, he still needs an exit visa... or I should say two?
  Rick: Why two?
  Captain Renault: He is traveling with a lady.
  Rick: He'll take one.
  Captain Renault: I think not. I have seen the lady.

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

• I was informed you were the most beautiful woman ever to visit Casablanca. That was gross understatement.

• Oh, please, monsieur. It is a little game we play. They put it on the bill, I tear up the bill. It is very convenient.

• Well, Rick is the kind of man that... well, if I were a woman, and I were not around, I should be in love with Rick. But what a fool I am talking to a beautiful woman about another man.

• Berger: We read five times that you were killed, in five different places.
  Victor Laszlo: As you can see, it was true every single time.

• Ilsa: Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By.

• ''You must remember this
  A kiss is just a kiss
  A sigh is just a sigh
  The fundamental things apply
  As time goes by.
  • Lyrics and Music by Herman Hupfeld (1931)

• Rick: I congratulate you.
  Victor Laszlo: What for?
  Rick: Your work.
  Victor Laszlo: I try.
  Rick: We all try. You succeed.

• Ilsa: I wasn't sure you were the same. Let's see, the last time we met...
  Rick: Was La Belle Aurora.

• Rick: Why I'm so lucky. Why I should find you waiting for me to come along.
  Ilsa: Why there is no other man in my life?
  Rick: Uh-huh.
  Ilsa: That's easy: there was. And he's dead.

• Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.

• You played it for her, you can play it for me! . . . If she can stand it, I can! Play it!

• Here's looking at you kid

• Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.

• Rick: How long was it we had, honey?
  Ilsa: I didn't count the days.
  Rick: Well, I did. Every one of them. Mostly, I remember the last one, the wild finish. A guy standing on a station platform in the rain, with a comical look on his face, because his insides have been kicked out.

• Tell me, who was it you left me for? Was it Laszlo, or were there others in between? Or— aren't you the kind that tells?

• We might as well be frank, monsieur. It would take a miracle to get you out of Casablanca, and the Germans have outlawed miracles.

• Capt Renault: I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!
  Waiter: Here's your winnings sir.
  Capt Renault: Thank you very much.

• Rick: Don't you sometimes wonder if it's worth all this? I mean what you're fighting for.
  Victor Laszlo: You might as well question why we breathe. If we stop breathing, we'll die. If we stop fighting our enemies, the world will die.
  Rick: Well, what of it? It'll be out of its misery.
  Victor Laszlo: You know how you sound, Mr. Blaine? Like a man who's trying to convince himself of something he doesn't believe in his heart.

• Victor Laszlo: I know a good deal more about you than you suspect. I know, for instance, that you're in love with a woman. It is perhaps a strange circumstance that we both should be in love with the same woman. The first evening I came to this café, I knew there was something between you and Ilsa. Since no one is to blame, I— I demand no explanation. I ask only one thing. You won't give me the letters of transit: all right, but I want my wife to be safe. I ask you as a favor, to use the letters to take her away from Casablanca.

• Rick: Last night we said a great many things. You said I was to do the thinking for both of us. Well, I've done a lot of it since then, and it all adds up to one thing: you're getting on that plane with Victor where you belong.
  Ilsa: But, Richard, no, I... I...
  Rick: Now, you've got to listen to me! You have any idea what you'd have to look forward to if you stayed here? Nine chances out of ten, we'd both wind up in a concentration camp. Isn't that true, Louie?
  Captain Renault: I'm afraid Major Strasser would insist.
  Ilsa: You're saying this only to make me go.
  Rick: I'm saying it because it's true. Inside of us, we both know you belong with Victor. You're part of his work, the thing that keeps him going. If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.
  Ilsa: But what about us?
  Rick: We'll always have Paris. We didn't have, we, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.
  Ilsa: When I said I would never leave you.
  Rick: And you never will. But I've got a job to do, too. Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now... Here's looking at you kid.

• Welcome back to the fight. This time I know our side will win.

• Major Strasser has been shot. Round up the usual suspects.

• Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

CAST:

• Humphrey Bogart - Rick Blaine
• Ingrid Bergman - Ilsa Lund Laszlo
• Paul Henreid - Victor Laszlo
• Claude Rains - Capt. Louis Renault
• Conrad Veidt - Maj. Heinrich Strasser
• Sydney Greenstreet - Signor Ferrari
• Peter Lorre - Guillermo Ugarte
• S.K. Sakall - Carl
• Madeleine LeBeau - Yvonne
• Dooley Wilson - Sam

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