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- Nov 07, 2020
Bogart Quotes
On the actor who defined the screen anti-hero.
Bogart's name keeps surfacing here as shorthand for a certain cool detachment, from his magnetic pairing with Bergman in Casablanca to comparisons with Cagney as an early anti-hero. It's a good match for our Act quotes collection on performance and persona.
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- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
When wearing a trench coat, you're allowed to act like Humphrey Bogart when he was detective Sam Spade.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe the best example of the unmuscled hero is Humphrey Bogart in 'Casablanca.' Bogart was 15 years older than Ingrid Bergman, and it did not matter at all. He had the experience, the confidence, the internal strength that can only come with age.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he wrote a script, and that was your movie. I think that's been watered down a bit lately.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a younger generation running the show, and I miss the generation we had in the '70s. They were really very honorable guys, like Neal Bogart and Bill Graham, people who will never be around again.
- Edward
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an incurable romantic, and Casablanca's one of the most romantic pictures I've ever seen - the combination of Bogart and Bergman is just magical.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a trend toward anti-heroes now, and I think it goes back to guys like Bogart and Cagney. They seemed to have no compassion, and they were always alone.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything.
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- Nov 07, 2020