Ugarte: You know, Rick, I
have many a friend in Casablanca, but somehow, just because you despise
me, you are the only one I trust.
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.
Captain Louis Renault: Carl,
see that Major Strasser gets a good table, one close to the ladies.
Carl: I have already given
him the best, knowing he is German and would take it anyway.
Captain Louis 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 Blaine: Oh? I thought
it was because I let you win at roulette.
Captain Louis Renault: That
is another reason.
Annina: Monsieur Rick, what
kind of a man is Captain Renault?
Rick: Oh, he's just like
any other man, only more so.
Ilsa Lund: Play it once, Sam.
For old times' sake.
Sam: [lying] I don't know
what you mean, Miss Elsa.
Ilsa Lund: Play it, Sam.
Play "As Time Goes By."
Rick Blaine: I remember Paris
perfectly. The Germans wore grey, you wore blue.
[About Rick.]
Major Strasser: You give
him credit for too much cleverness. My impression was that he's just another
blundering American.
Captain Renault: We musn't
underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered
into Berlin in 1918.
Major Strasser: Are you one
of those people who cannot imagine the Germans in their beloved Paris?
Rick Blaine: It's not particularly
my beloved Paris.
Heinz: Can you imagine us
in London?
Rick Blaine: When you get
there, ask me!
Captain Renault: Hmmh! Diplomatist!
Major Strasser: How about
New York?
Rick Blaine: Well there are
certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try
to invade.
[Rick and Captain Renault
discussing Victor Laszlo's chances of escaping Casablanca]
Captain Renault: This is
the end of the chase.
Rick Blaine: Twenty thousand
francs says it isn't.
Captain Renault: Is that
a serious offer?
Rick Blaine: I just paid
out twenty. I'd like to get it back.
Captain Renault: Make it
ten. I'm only a poor corrupt official.
[Ugarte sells exit visas]
Ugarte: You despise me, don't
you?
Rick Blaine: If I gave you
any thought I probably would.
Captain Louis Renault: What
in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?
Rick Blaine: My health. I
came to Casablanca for the waters.
Captain Louis Renault: The
waters? What waters? We're in the desert.
Rick Blaine: I was misinformed.
Rick Blaine: I stick my neck
out for nobody.
Major Strasser: What is your
nationality?
Rick Blaine: I'm a drunkard.
Captain Louis Renault: That
makes Rick a citizen of the world.
Rick Blaine: Here's looking
at you, kid.
Senor Ferrari: Might as well
be frank, monsieur. It would take a miracle to get you out of Casablanca,
and the Germans have outlawed miracles.
Rick Blaine: Of all the gin
joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
Ilsa Lund: Kiss me. Kiss me
as if it were the last time.
Rick Blaine: And remember,
this gun is pointed right at your heart.
Captain Louis Renault: That
is my least vulnerable spot.
[After he watches Rick do
the shooting, Renault gives orders to his police]
Captain Louis Renault: Major
Strasser has been shot. Round up the usual suspects.
[Last line]
Rick Blaine: Louis, I think
this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Rick Blaine: 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 Lund: But, Richard,
no, I... I...
Rick Blaine: 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 Lund: You're saying
this only to make me go.
Rick Blaine: 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 Lund: But what about
us?
Rick Blaine: 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 Lund: When I said I
would never leave you.
Rick Blaine: 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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