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Casablanca
Mr. Leuchtag: Come sit down. Have a brandy with us.
Mrs.
Leuchtag: To celebrate our leaving for America tomorrow.
Carl: Oh, thank you
very much. I thought you would ask me, so I brought the good brandy. And -- a
third glass!
Mrs. Leuchtag: At last the day is came!
Mr. Leuchtag: Mareichtag
and I are speaking nothing but English now.
Mrs. Leuchtag: So we should feel
at home when we get to America.
Carl: Very nice idea, mm-hmm.
Mr. Leuchtag:
[toasting] To America!
Mrs. Leuchtag: To America!
Carl: To America!
Mr.
Leuchtag: Liebchen-- sweetnessheart, what watch?
Mrs. Leuchtag: Ten watch.
Mr. Leuchtag: Such much?
Carl: Hm. You will get along beautiful in America,
mm-hmm.
[Denying
a refugee entrance to the casino.]
Rick Blaine: Your cash is good at the bar.
Banker: What? Do you know who I am?
Rick Blaine: I do. You're lucky the
bar's open to you.
Woman:
What makes saloonkeepers so snobbish?
Banker: Perhaps if you told him I ran
the second largest banking house in Amsterdam.
Carl: Second largest? That
wouldn't impress Rick. The leading banker in Amsterdam is now the pastry chef
in our kitchen.
Banker: We have something to look forward to.
Ugarte:
Heh, you know, watching you just now with the Deutsche Bank, one would think you've
been doing this all your life.
Rick Blaine: Oh, what makes you think I haven't?
Ugarte: Oh, n-n-n-nothing, but when you first came to Casablanca, I thought
--
Rick Blaine: You thought what?
Ugarte: Hm, what right do I have to
think, huh?
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: In 1935, you ran guns to Ethiopia. In 1936, you fought in Spain,
on the Loyalist side.
Rick Blaine: I got well paid for it on both occasions.
Captain Louis Renault: The winning side would have paid you much better.
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 Blaine: 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."
Sam: [lying] Oh, I can't remember it, Miss Elsa. I'm a little rusty on it.
Ilsa Lund: I'll hum it for you. Da-dy-da-dy-da-dum, da-dy-da-dee-da-dum...
[Sam begins playing]
Ilsa Lund: 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
Blaine: [rushing up] Sam, I thought I told you never to play---
[Sees Ilsa.
Sam closes the piano and rolls it away.]
Ilsa
Lund: I wasn't sure you were the same. Let's see, the last time we met....
Rick
Blaine: Was La Belle Aurora.
Ilsa Lund: How nice, you remembered. But of course,
that was the day the Germans marched into Paris.
Rick Blaine: Not an easy
day to forget?
Ilsa Lund: No.
Rick Blaine: I remember every detail. The
Germans wore gray, you wore blue.
Rick
Blaine: 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?
Senor
Ferrari: As the leader of all illegal activities in Casablanca, I am an influential
and respected man.
Rick
Blaine: 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 Blaine: 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.
[About
Rick.]
Major Strasser: You give him credit for too much cleverness. My impression
was that he's just another blundering American.
Captain Louis Renault: We
musn't underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered
into Berlin in 1918.
Ilsa
Lund: A franc for your thoughts.
Rick Blaine: In America they'd bring only
a penny, and, huh, I guess that's about all they're worth.
Ilsa Lund: Well,
I'm willing to be overcharged. Tell me.
Rick Blaine: Well, I was wondering...
Ilsa Lund: Yes?
Rick Blaine: Why I'm so lucky. Why I should find you waiting
for me to come along.
Ilsa Lund: Why there is no other man in my life?
Rick
Blaine: Uh-huh.
Ilsa Lund: That's easy: there was. And he's dead.
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
Louis 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 Renault discussing Victor Laszlo's chances of escaping Casablanca.]
Captain
Louis Renault: This is the end of the chase.
Rick Blaine: Twenty thousand
francs says it isn't.
Captain Louis Renault: Is that a serious offer?
Rick
Blaine: I just paid out twenty. I'd like to get it back.
Captain Louis 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.
Ugarte:
Rick, think of all the poor devils who can't meet Renault's price. I get it for
them for half. Is that so... parasitic?
Rick Blaine: I don't mind a parasite.
I object to a cut-rate one.
Yvonne:
Where were you last night?
Rick Blaine: That's so long ago, I don't remember.
Yvonne: Will I see you tonight?
Rick Blaine: I never make plans that far
ahead.
[Annina
is contemplating Renault's offer of exit visas for sex.]
Annina: Oh, monsieur,
you are a man. If somone loved you very much, so that your happiness was the only
thing that she wanted in the world, but she did a bad thing to make certain of
it, could you forgive her?
Rick Blaine: Nobody ever loved me that much.
Annina:
And he never knew, and the girl kept this bad thing locked in her heart? That
would be all right, wouldn't it?
Rick Blaine: You want my advice?
Annina:
Oh, yes, please.
Rick Blaine: Go back to Bulgaria.
Captain
Louis Renault: How extravagant you are, throwing away women like that. Some day
they may be scarce.
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.
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 Blaine: You love her that
much?
Victor Laszlo: Apparently you think of me only as the leader of a cause.
Well, I'm also a human being. Yes, I love her that much.
[Of
Victor Laszlo, who wants to escape from Casablanca]
Captain Louis Renault:
No matter how clever he is, he still needs an exit visa... or I should say two?
Rick Blaine: Why two?
Captain Louis Renault: He is traveling with a lady.
Rick Blaine: He'll take one.
Captain Louis Renault: I think not. I have
seen the lady.
Captain
Louis Renault: My dear Ricky, you overestimate the influence of the Gestapo. I
don't interfere with them and they don't interfere with me. In Casablanca I am
master of my fate! I am--
Police Officer: Major Strasser is here, sir!
Rick
Blaine: You were saying?
Captain Louis Renault: Excuse me.
Rick
Blaine: I congratulate you.
Victor Laszlo: What for?
Rick Blaine: Your
work.
Victor Laszlo: I try.
Rick Blaine: We all try. You succeed.
Rick
Blaine: You know what I want to hear.
Sam: [lying] No, I don't.
Rick Blaine:
You played it for her, you can play it for me!
Sam: [lying] Well, I don't
think I can remember--
Rick Blaine: If she can stand it, I can! Play it!
Captain
Louis Renault: We are very honored tonight, Rick. Major Strasser is one of the
reasons the Third Reich enjoys the reputation it has today.
Major Heinrich
Strasser: You repeat *Third* Reich as though you expected there to be others!
Captain Louis Renault: Well, personally, Major, I will take what comes.
Rick
Blaine: Who are you really, and what were you before? What did you do, and what
did you think, huh?
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.
[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!
[As
he goes to hand Renault a bribe.]
Jan Brandel: Captain Renault... may I?
Captain
Louis 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
Louis Renault: I'll be there at ten.
Rick
Blaine: How can you close me up? On what grounds?
Captain Louis 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 Louis Renault:
[sotto voce] Oh, thank you very much.
[aloud]
Captain Louis Renault: Everybody
out at once!
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.
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 Louis 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.
Captain
Louis Renault: Realizing the importance of the case, my men are rounding up twice
the usual number of suspects.
Captain
Louis 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
Louis 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.
Victor
Laszlo: Welcome back to the fight. This time I know our side will win.
Ilsa
Lund: Who is Rick?
Captain Louis Renault: Mamoiselle, you are in Rick's! And
Rick is...
Ilsa Lund: Who is he?
Captain Louis Renault: Well, Rick is
the kind of person that. Well, if I were a woman, and I were not in love. I should
be in love with Rick, but what a fool I am talking to a beautiful woman about
another man.
Rick
Blaine: How long was it we had, honey?
Ilsa Lund: I didn't count the days.
Rick Blaine: 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.
Ilsa
Lund: 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.
[Ugarte
gives exit visas 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 Blaine: [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 Blaine: You're right, Ugarte. I am a little more impressed with you.
[Rick exits casino.]
Captain
Louis Renault: If he ever gets a word in, it'll be a major Italian victory.
Major
Heinrich Strasser: Last night you expressed an interest in Monsieur Ugarte.
Victor
Laszlo: Well, its not important, but may I speak with him?
Major Heinrich
Strasser: You would find the conversation a trifle one-sided. Monsieur Ugarte's
dead.
Captain Louis Renault: I'm just writing the report now. We haven't quite
decided whether he committed suicide or died trying to escape.
Rick
Blaine: I don't like disturbances in my place.
[to the German officer]
Rick
Blaine: Either lay off politics, or get out.