- 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.
- 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: 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.
- 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 - sweetness heart, what watch?
- Mrs. Leuchtag: Ten watch.
- Mr. Leuchtag: Such much?
- Carl: Hm. You will get along beautiful in America, mm-hmm.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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]
- 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.
- [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.
- 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.
- 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 Renault: By the way, last night you evinced an interest in Señor Ugarte.
- Victor Laszlo: Yes.
- Captain Renault: I believe you have a message for him?
- Victor Laszlo: Nothing important, but may I speak to him now?
- Major Heinrich Strasser: You would find the conversation a trifle one-sided. Señor Ugarte is dead.
- Ilsa: Oh.
- Captain Renault: I am making out the report now. We haven't quite decided yet whether he committed suicide or died trying to escape.
- Senor Ferrari: I might as well be frank, monsieur. It would take a miracle to get you out of Casablanca, and the Germans have outlawed miracles.
- [Rick and Renault discussing Victor Laszlo's chances of escaping Casablanca]
- Captain Renault: This is the end of the chase.
- Rick: Twenty thousand francs says it isn't.
- Captain Renault: Is that a serious offer?
- Rick: I just paid out twenty. I'd like to get it back.
- Captain Renault: Make it ten. I'm only a poor corrupt official.
- [as he goes to hand Renault a bribe]
- Jan Brandel: Captain Renault... may I?
- Captain 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 Renault: I'll be there at ten.
- Captain Renault: Carl, see that Major Strasser gets a good table, one close to the ladies.
- Carl: I have already given him the best, knowing that he is German and would take it anyway.
- Ilsa: Rick, I have to talk to you.
- Rick: [Rick is drunk] Uh-huh. I saved my first drink to have with you. Here.
- [passes her a drink]
- Ilsa: No. No, Rick, not tonight.
- Rick: *Especially* tonight.
- Ilsa: Please...
- [he pours a drink]
- Rick: Why did you have to come to Casablanca? There are other places.
- Ilsa: I wouldn't have come if I'd known that you were here. Believe me Rick, it's true I didn't know...
- Rick: It's funny about your voice, how it hasn't changed. I can still hear it. "Richard, dear, I'll go with you anyplace. We'll get on a train together and never stop - "
- Ilsa: Don't, Rick! I can understand how you feel.
- Rick: [scoffs] You understand how I feel. How long was it we had, honey?
- Ilsa: [on the verge of tears] I didn't count the days.
- Rick: Well, I did. Every one of 'em. Mostly I remember the last one. The wow finish. A guy standing on a station platform in the rain with a comical look in his face because his insides have been kicked out.
- Ilsa: Can I tell you a story, Rick?
- Rick: Has it got a wow finish?
- Ilsa: I don't know the finish yet.
- Rick: Well, go on. Tell it - maybe one will come to you as you go along.
- Ilsa: It's about a girl who had just come to Paris from her home in Oslo. At the house of some friends, she met a man about whom she'd heard her whole life. A very great and courageous man. He opened up for her a whole beautiful world full of knowledge and thoughts and ideals. Everything she knew or ever became was because of him. And she looked up to him and worshiped him... with a feeling she supposed was love.
- Rick: [bitterly] Yes, it's very pretty. I heard a story once - as a matter of fact, I've heard a lot of stories in my time. They went along with the sound of a tinny piano playing in the parlor downstairs. "Mister, I met a man once when I was a kid," it always began.
- [laughs]
- Rick: Well, I guess neither one of our stories is very funny. Tell me, who was it you left me for? Was it Lazlo, or were there others in between or... aren't you the kind that tells?
- [Ilsa tearfully and silently leaves. Rick's face falls in his hands sadly, knowing that he's said all the wrong things]
- Captain 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 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.
- Ilsa: A franc for your thoughts.
- Rick: In America they'd bring only a penny, and, huh, I guess that's about all they're worth.
- Ilsa: Well, I'm willing to be overcharged. Tell me.
- Rick: Well, I was wondering...
- Ilsa: Yes?
- Rick: Why I'm so lucky. Why I should find you waiting for me to come along.
- Ilsa: Why there is no other man in my life?
- Rick: Uh-huh.
- Ilsa: That's easy: there was. And he's dead.
- Major Strasser: We have a complete dossier on you: Richard Blaine, American, age 37. Cannot return to his country. The reason is a little vague. We also know what you did in Paris, Mr. Blaine, and also we know why you left Paris.
- [hands the dossier to Rick]
- Major Strasser: Don't worry, we are not going to broadcast it.
- Rick: [reading] Are my eyes really brown?
- Captain Renault: Ricky, I'm going to miss you. Apparently you're the only one in Casablanca with less scruples than I.
- Captain 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: Oh? I thought it was because I let you win at roulette.
- Captain Renault: That is *another* reason.
- Ilsa: Who is Rick?
- Captain Renault: Mamoiselle, you are in Rick's! And Rick is...
- Ilsa: Who is he?
- Captain Renault: Well, Rick is the kind of man that... well, if I were a woman, and I were not around, I should be in love with Rick. But what a fool I am talking to a beautiful woman about another man.
- [Annina is contemplating Renault's offer of exit visas for sex]
- Annina: Oh, monsieur, you are a man. If someone 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: 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: You want my advice?
- Annina: Oh, yes, please.
- Rick: Go back to Bulgaria.
- Captain Renault: In 1935, you ran guns to Ethiopia. In 1936, you fought in Spain, on the Loyalist side.
- Rick: I got well paid for it on both occasions.
- Captain Renault: The *winning* side would have paid you *much better*.
- Captain Renault: [after Rick pulls a gun on him] Have you lost your mind?
- Rick: I have. Sit down!
- Captain Renault: Put that gun down!
- Rick: I don't want to shoot you, but I will if you take one more step!
- Captain Renault: [With amusement] Under the circumstances I will sit down.