Casablanca Quotes

Major Strasser: What is your nationality?

Rick: I'm a drunkard.

Captain Renault: That makes Rick a citizen of the world.

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[after observing the gambling tables at Rick's]

Customer: Are you sure this place is honest?

Carl: Honest? As honest as the day is long!

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[as he goes to hand Renault a bribe]

Jan Brandel: Captain Renault... may I?

Captain Renault: Oh no! Not here please! Come to my office tomorrow morning. We'll do everything businesslike.

Jan Brandel: We'll be there at six!

Captain Renault: I'll be there at ten.

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Rick: How can you close me up? On what grounds?

Captain Renault: I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!
[a croupier hands Renault a pile of money]

Croupier: Your winnings, sir.

Captain Renault: [sotto voce] Oh, thank you very much.
[aloud]

Captain Renault: Everybody out at once!

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

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Ilsa: I love you so much. I hate war so much.

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Ilsa: [laughs ironically] With the whole world crumbling, we pick this time to fall in love.

Rick: Yeah, it's pretty bad timing. Where were you, say, ten years ago?

Ilsa: [trying to be cheerful] Ten years ago? Well, let's see...
[remembers, smiles]

Ilsa: Oh, yes, I was having a brace put on my teeth. Where were you?

Rick: Looking for a job.

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[last lines]

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

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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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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.

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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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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: Get outta here, you crazy Russian!

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

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[last lines]

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

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

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Ugarte: Heh, you know, watching you just now with the Deutsche Bank, one would think you've been doing this all your life.

Rick: Oh, what makes you think I haven't?

Ugarte: Oh, n-n-n-nothing, but when you first came to Casablanca, I thought...

Rick: You thought what?

Ugarte: Hm, what right do I have to think, huh?

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Senor Ferrari: As the leader of all illegal activities in Casablanca, I am an influential and respected man.

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[Rick and Renault discussing Victor Laszlo's chances of escaping Casablanca]

Captain Renault: This is the end of the chase.

Rick: Twenty thousand francs says it isn't.

Captain Renault: Is that a serious offer?

Rick: I just paid out twenty. I'd like to get it back.

Captain Renault: Make it ten. I'm only a poor corrupt official.

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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.

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Captain Renault: I was informed you were the most beautiful woman ever to visit Casablanca. That was a gross understatement.

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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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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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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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Rick: 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?

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