AFI #005 Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine from Casablanca (1942)

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 it before...we'd...we'd 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.

- Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine from Casablanca (1942)

The bolded line is ranked #5 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

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AFI #005 Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine from Casablanca (1942)

Rick: Who are you really, and what were you before? What did you do and what did you think, huh?
Ilsa: We said no questions.

Rick: ...Here's looking at you, kid.

- Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine from Casablanca (1942)

The bolded line is ranked #5 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

AFI #005 Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine from Casablanca (1942)

Ilsa: I can't fight it anymore. I ran away from you once. I can't do it again. Oh, I don't know what's right any longer. You have to think for both of us. For all of us.

Rick: All right, I will. Here's looking at you, kid.
Ilsa: [smiles] I wish I didn't love you so much.

- Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine from Casablanca (1942)

The bolded line is ranked #5 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

In Japan and Korea, the line "Here's looking at you" is translated as "Cheers to your eyes".

This phrase is actually a toast that originated around the fights that occurred in the pubs of old. It was commonplace for a patron to wait until his adversary was drinking from their stein of ale (and their vision was therefore blocked by the stein) to attack ... it bettered their odds of success. It is led to the development of the glass-bottomed stein in which the drinker could keep the other patrons in their vision even when drinking.

Thus came the toast "Here's looking at you"

AFI #020 Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine from Casablanca (1942)

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

- Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine from Casablanca (1942)

The bolded line is ranked #20 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

AFI #028 Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund from Casablanca (1942)

Ilsa: Play it once, Sam, for old times' sake.
Sam: I don't know what you mean, Miss Ilsa.

Ilsa: [whispered] Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'
Sam: Why, I can't remember it, Miss Ilsa. I'm a little rusty on it.
Ilsa: I'll hum it for you. [Ilsa hums two bars. Sam starts to play] Sing it, Sam.
Sam: [singing] You must remember this
A kiss is just a kiss
A sigh is just a sigh
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by.
Lyrics and Music by Herman Hupfeld (1931)

- Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund from Casablanca (1942)

The bolded line is ranked #28 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

AFI #032 Claude Rains as Capt. Louis Renault from Casablanca (1942)

Major Strasser has been shot. [pause] Round up the usual suspects.

- Claude Rains as Capt. Louis Renault from Casablanca (1942)

The bolded line is ranked #32 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

AFI #043 Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine from Casablanca (1942)

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 it before...we'd...we'd 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]
Rixk: Here's looking at you, kid.

- Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine from Casablanca (1942)

"We'll always have Paris" is ranked #43 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

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AFI #067 Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine from Casablanca (1942)

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

- Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine from Casablanca (1942)

The bolded line is ranked #67 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

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Casablanca (1942)

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Casablanca (1942)

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Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid, and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Dooley Wilson. Set during World War II, it focuses on a man torn between, in the words of one character, love and virtue. He must choose between his love for a woman and helping her and her Czech Resistance leader husband escape from the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Nazis.

Although it was an A-list film, with established stars and first-rate writers—Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch received credit for the screenplay—no one involved with its production expected Casablanca to be anything out of the ordinary; it was just one of hundreds of pictures produced by Hollywood every year. The film was a solid, if unspectacular, success in its initial run, rushed into release to take advantage of the publicity from the Allied invasion of North Africa a few weeks earlier. Despite a changing assortment of screenwriters frantically adapting an unstaged play and barely keeping ahead of production, and Bogart attempting his first romantic lead role, Casablanca won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Its characters, dialogue, and music have become iconic, and the film has grown in popularity to the point that it now consistently ranks near the top of lists of the greatest films of all time.

Bogart and Bergman

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