Casablanca Quotes

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

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Captain Renault : Oh no, Emil, please. A bottle of your best champagne, and put it on my bill.
Emil : Very well, sir.
Victor Laszlo : Captain, please...
Captain Renault : 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.

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Victor Laszlo : Welcome back to the fight. This time I know our side will win.

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Ilsa : Who is Rick?
Captain Renault : Mamoiselle, you are in Rick's! And Rick is...
Ilsa : Who is he?
Captain Renault : 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.

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Ilsa : Thank you for the coffee, monsieur. I shall miss that when I leave Casablanca.
Senor Ferrari : It was gracious of you to share it with me.

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[ Ugarte gives letter of transit to Rick for safe keeping ]
Ugarte : Rick, I hope you're more impressed with me, now? Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll share my luck with your roulette wheel. [ Starts to walk away ]
Rick : [ stands up; Ugarte stops ] Just a moment. I heard a rumor those two German couriers were carrying letter of transit.
Ugarte : Huh? Oh, huh, I heard that rumor too. Poor devils.
Rick : [ sternly ] You're right, Ugarte. I *am* a little more impressed with you. [ Rick exits casino ]

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Captain Renault : [ seeing a uniformed French officer talking non-stop to an Italian officer ] If he ever gets a *word* in, it'll be a major Italian *victory*.

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Captain Renault : By the way, last night you evinced an interest in Señor Ugarte.
Victor Laszlo : Yes.
Captain Renault : I believe you have a message for him?
Victor Laszlo : Nothing important, but may I speak to him now?
Major Heinrich Strasser : You would find the conversation a trifle one-sided. Señor Ugarte is dead.
Ilsa : Oh.
Captain Renault : I am making out the report now. We haven't quite decided yet whether he committed suicide or died trying to escape.

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Rick : I don't like disturbances in my place. [ to the German officer ]
Rick : Either lay off politics, or get out.

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Rick : You'll excuse me, gentlemen. Your business is politics, mine is running a saloon.

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Captain Renault : I've often speculated why you don't return to America. Did you abscond with the church funds? Run off with a senator's wife? I like to think you killed a man. It's the Romantic in me.
Rick : It was a combination of all three.

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Rick : [ getting drunk ] First they take Ugarte and then she walks in. Well, I guess that's the way it goes... one out and one in.

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Ugarte : Too bad about those two German couriers, wasn't it?
Rick : They got a lucky break. Yesterday they were just two German clerks. Today they're the "Honored Dead".
Ugarte : You are a very cynical person, Rick, if you'll forgive me for saying so.
Rick : [ shortly ] I forgive you.

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Sam : Boss, ain't you going to bed?
Rick : Not right now.
Sam : Ain't you planning on going to bed in the near future?
Rick : No.
Sam : You ever going to bed?
Rick : No!
Sam : Well, I ain't sleepy either.

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Yvonne : [ Yvonne is drunk ] Give me another.
Rick : Sascha, she's had enough.
Yvonne : Don't listen to him, Sascha. Fill it up!
Sascha : Yvonne, I loff you, but he pays me.

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Ugarte : Well, Rick, after tonight, I'll be through with the whole business and I am leaving finally this Casablanca.
Rick : Who did you bribe for your visa? Renault or yourself?
Ugarte : Myself. I found myself much more reasonable.

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Rick : If it's December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York?
Sam : What? My watch stopped.
Rick : I'd bet they're asleep in New York. I'd bet they're asleep all over America.

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[ first lines ]
Narrator : With the coming of the Second World War, many eyes in imprisoned Europe turned hopefully, or desperately, toward the freedom of the Americas. Lisbon became the great embarkation point. But, not everybody could get to Lisbon directly, and so a tortuous, roundabout refugee trail sprang up - Paris to Marseilles... across the Mediterranean to Oran... then by train, or auto, or foot across the rim of Africa, to Casablanca in French Morocco. Here, the fortunate ones through money, or influence, or luck, might obtain exit visas and scurry to Lisbon; and from Lisbon, to the New World. But the others wait in Casablanca... and wait... and wait... and wait.
French officer : To all officers - two German couriers carrying important official documents murdered on train from Oran. Murderer and possible accomplices headed for Casablanca. Round up all suspicious characters and search them for stolen documents. Important.

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Captain Renault : [ to Rick regarding Ilsa ] She was asking about you earlier in a way that made me very jealous...

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Rick : Why did you come back? To tell me why you ran out on me at the railway station?
Ilsa : ...Yes.
Rick : Well, you can tell me now. I'm reasonably sober.

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[ Rick has just allowed Jan and Annina Brandel to win at roulette in order to get money for their exit visas ]
Sascha : [ kissing Rick on both cheeks ] You have done a beautiful thing!
Rick : [ embarrassed ] Get outta here, you crazy Russian!

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Ilsa : [ in her goodbye letter ] Richard, I cannot go with you or ever see you again. You must not ask why. Just believe that I love you. Go, my darling, and God bless you. Ilsa.

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[ Rick has been on a long drinking binge ]
Emil : [ serving Rick another drink ] *You* are becoming your *own* best *customer*!
Captain Renault : [ surprized ] Why Ricky, I'm *pleased* with you- *Now* you're beginning to live like a *Frenchman*!

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[ at the bar, where Yvonne and a German officer are ordering drinks ]
French Officer Insulting Yvonne : [ in French, to Yvonne ] Say, you, you are not French to go with a German like this!
Yvonne : [ in French ] What are you butting in for?
French Officer Insulting Yvonne : [ in French ] I am butting in...
Yvonne : [ in French ] It's none of your business! [ brief scuffle between German officer and French officer; Rick intervenes and orders them to desist ]
French Officer Insulting Yvonne : [ in French, to German officer ] Dirty Boche. Someday we'll have our revenge!

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Victor Laszlo : Everything is in order.
Rick : All except one thing. There's something you should know before you leave.
Victor Laszlo : Mr. Blaine, I don't ask you to explain anything.
Rick : I'm going to anyway because it may make a difference to you later on. You said you knew about Ilsa and me.
Victor Laszlo : Yes.
Rick : What you didn't know was that she was at my place last night when you were. She came there for the letters of transit. Isn't that true, Ilsa?
Ilsa : Yes.
Rick : She tried everything to get them and nothing worked. She did her best to convince me she was still in love with me but that was over long ago. For your sake she pretended it wasn't and I let her pretend.
Victor Laszlo : I understand.
Rick : Here it is. [ hands Lazlo the letters of transit ]
Victor Laszlo : Thanks. I appreciate it. Welcome back to the fight. This time I *know* our side will win. [ airplane engines start ]
Victor Laszlo : Are you ready, Ilsa?
Ilsa : Yes, I'm ready. Good-bye Rick. God bless you.
Rick : You better hurry. You'll miss that plane.

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Victor Laszlo : And what if you track down these men and kill them, what if you killed all of us? From every corner of Europe, hundreds, thousands would rise up to take our places. Even Nazis can't kill that fast.

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Rick : Alright, I'll make it easier for you: Go ahead and shoot. You'll be doing me a favor.

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Ilsa : [ to Rick ] He is my husband. Was. Even when I knew you in Paris.

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Major Strasser : [ arriving too late to stop Victor Laszlo from escaping ] What was the meaning of that phone call?
Captain Renault : [ pointing to the plane ] Victor Laszlo is on that plane.
Major Strasser : [ after looking at the plane ] Why do you stand here? Why don't you stop him?
Captain Renault : Ask Mr. Rick.
Rick : [ sees Strasser begin to move toward the telephone, and draws a gun ] Get away from that phone!
Major Strasser : I would advise you not to interfere.
Rick : I was willing to shoot Captain Renault and I'm willing to shoot you.
Major Strasser : [ picks up the telephone ] Hello?
Rick : Put that phone down!
Major Strasser : Get me the radio tower.
Rick : PUT IT DOWN! [ Strasser draws a gun, he and Rick both fire simultaneously, Strasser falls mortally wounded, shortly afterward, some police arrive on the scene ]
Captain Renault : Major Strasser's been shot. [ Renault looks at Rick, Rick gives him a look ]
Captain Renault : Round up the usual suspects. [ the police pick up Major Strasser's body and leave, Renault looks over at Rick, who is smiling ]

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Victor Laszlo : Play the "Marseillaise."... Play it!

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