I stick my neck out for nobody.
Rick Blaine
She tried everything to get them, and nothing worked. She did her best to convince me that she was still in love with me, but that was all over long ago. For your sake, she pretended it wasn't, and I let her pretend.
Rick Blaine
I was willing to shoot Captain Renault, and I'm willing to shoot you.
Rick Blaine
Here's looking at you, kid.
Rick Blaine
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Rick Blaine
If she can stand it, I can! Play it!
Rick Blaine
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
Rick Blaine
Realizing the importance of the case, my men are rounding up twice the usual number of suspects.
Captain Louis Renault
I'm only a poor corrupt official.
Captain Louis Renault
I don't interfere with them and they don't interfere with me. In Casablanca, I'm master of my fate.
Captain Louis Renault
I'm making out the report now. We haven't quite decided whether he committed suicide or died trying to escape.
Captain Louis Renault
Major Strasser has been shot. Round up the usual suspects.
Captain Louis Renault
As leader of all the illegal activities in Casablanca, I'm an influential and respected man, but it would not be worth my life to do anything for Monsieur Laszlo. You, however, are a different matter.
Signor Ferrari
We might as well be frank, monsieur. It would take a miracle to get you out of Casablanca, and the Germans have outlawed miracles.
Signor Ferrari
And so a torturous, round-about refugee trail sprang up. Paris to Marseilles, across the Mediterranean to Oran [in Algeria], then by train or auto or foot across the rim of Africa to Casablanca in French Morocco. Here the fortunate ones through money or influence or luck might obtain exit visas and scurry to Lisbon, and from Lisbon to the New World. But the others wait in Casablanca, and wait...and wait...and wait.
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