We'll Always Have Casablanca Quotes

“Two clichés make us laugh,” writes Umberto Eco in his essay on Casablanca, “but a hundred clichés move us because we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, celebrating a reunion.” Just”
― Noah Isenberg, We'll Always Have Casablanca: The Legend and Afterlife of Hollywood's Most Beloved Film

“sum up Casablanca in just four clipped, declarative sentences: “Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl back again. Boy gives up girl for humanity’s sake.”
― Noah Isenberg, We'll Always Have Casablanca: The Legend and Afterlife of Hollywood's Most Beloved Film

“In September 1941, a set of hearings was convened by a U.S. Senate Subcommittee on War Propaganda, chaired by Idaho Democrat Senator D. Worth Clark. The hearings were designed to address a resolution sponsored by two hard-nosed isolationist senators, Republican Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota and Democrat Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri, calling for “an investigation of any propaganda disseminated by motion pictures and radio or any other activity of the motion picture industry to influence public opinion in the direction of participation of the United States in the present European war.”
― Noah Isenberg, We'll Always Have Casablanca: The Legend and Afterlife of Hollywood's Most Beloved Film

“that if one is intent on colorizing a film like Casablanca one may as well add arms to the Venus de Milo.”
― Noah Isenberg, We'll Always Have Casablanca: The Legend and Afterlife of Hollywood's Most Beloved Film

“its ink running down the page with each drop of rain, does the crying for a man not able to shed tears.”
― Noah Isenberg, We'll Always Have Casablanca: The Legend and Afterlife of Hollywood's Most Beloved Film

“its ink running down the page with each drop of rain, does the crying for a man not able to shed tears. Ilsa”
― Noah Isenberg, We'll Always Have Casablanca: The Legend and Afterlife of Hollywood's Most Beloved Film

“She eschewed the conventional star makeover, refusing to pluck her eyebrows, wear thick makeup, or change her name, and she maintained a level of assertiveness quite uncommon to female actors of her generation.”
― Noah Isenberg, We'll Always Have Casablanca: The Legend and Afterlife of Hollywood's Most Beloved Film

“I know that somewhere under the sickening face of a shit—is a real shit.”
― Noah Isenberg, We'll Always Have Casablanca: The Legend and Afterlife of Hollywood's Most Beloved Film

“Bogart’s a hell of a nice guy until around 11:30 pm,” former comedian and Hollywood restaurant owner Dave Chasen famously remarked. “After that, he thinks he’s Bogart.”
― Noah Isenberg, We'll Always Have Casablanca: The Legend and Afterlife of Hollywood's Most Beloved Film

“They wrote the play, as Burnett later told a reporter from the Los Angeles Times, in “the white heat of anger—anger at stupid people who refused to acknowledge that Hitler and Nazism were a threat.”
― Noah Isenberg, We'll Always Have Casablanca: The Legend and Afterlife of Hollywood's Most Beloved Film

“Whatever solace he sought was generally found in the tranquility of the 380-acre farm that he bought in Chester County, Pennsylvania in 1941.”
― Noah Isenberg, We'll Always Have Casablanca: The Legend and Afterlife of Hollywood's Most Beloved Film