Humphrey Bogart credited as playing...
Rick Blaine
- Captain Renault: What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?
- Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
- Captain Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert.
- Rick: I was misinformed.
- Major Strasser: What is your nationality?
- Rick: I'm a drunkard.
- Captain Renault: That makes Rick a citizen of the world.
- [all laugh]
- Rick: And remember, this gun is pointed right at your heart.
- Captain Renault: That is my *least* vulnerable spot.
- 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.
- 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.
- [Ilsa lowers her head and begins to cry]
- Rick: Now, now...
- [Rick gently places his hand under her chin and raises it so their eyes meet]
- Rick: Here's looking at you kid.
- 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.
- Major Strasser: Are you one of those people who cannot imagine the Germans in their beloved Paris?
- Rick: It's not particularly my beloved Paris.
- Heinz: Can you imagine us in London?
- Rick: When you get there, ask me!
- Captain Renault: Hmmh! Diplomatist!
- Major Strasser: How about New York?
- Rick: Well there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade.
- Ilsa: Play it once, Sam. For old times' sake.
- Sam: [lying] I don't know what you mean, Miss Ilsa.
- Ilsa: Play it, Sam. Play "As Time Goes By."
- Sam: [lying] Oh, I can't remember it, Miss Ilsa. I'm a little rusty on it.
- Ilsa: I'll hum it for you. Da-dy-da-dy-da-dum, da-dy-da-dee-da-dum...
- [Sam begins playing]
- Ilsa: Sing it, Sam.
- Sam: [singing] You must remember this / A kiss is still a kiss / A sigh is just a sigh / The fundamental things apply / As time goes by. / And when two lovers woo, / They still say, "I love you" / On that you can rely / No matter what the future brings-...
- Rick: [rushing up] Sam, I thought I told you never to play-...
- [Sees Ilsa. Sam closes the piano and rolls it away]
- Ilsa: I wasn't sure you were the same. Let's see, the last time we met...
- Rick: Was La Belle Aurore.
- Ilsa: How nice, you remembered. But of course, that was the day the Germans marched into Paris.
- Rick: Not an easy day to forget.
- Ilsa: No.
- Rick: I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray, you wore blue.
- Rick: I congratulate you.
- Victor Laszlo: What for?
- Rick: Your work.
- Victor Laszlo: I try.
- Rick: We *all* "try"; *You* succeed!
- 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.
- 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 Monsieur 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 has 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]
- 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.
