We live in an age of mediocrity. Stars today are not the same stature as Bogie (Humphrey Bogart), James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart (James Stewart).
Lauren Bacall
I can play the bad guy, the character with the edge, but I would like him to get the girl without having to put a gun to her head, you know? Look at the careers of Robert Mitchum, Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney started out playing the adversary, too. I ...
Robert Davi
[on Humphrey Bogart] I always felt sorry for him -- sorry that he had imposed upon himself the character with which he had become identified.
Edward Robinson
[talking about his character in Jackie Brown]: "This is the great noir hero.If Humphrey Bogart or Robert Mitchum were around today, they`d be playing that role."
Robert Forster
[on Humphrey Bogart] It took a little while to realize that he had perfected an elaborate camouflage to cover up one of the kindest and most generous of hearts. Even so, he was no soft touch and before you were allowed to peek beneath the surface and catc...
David Niven
I say my [tough guy] acting days are over, But then [Humphrey] Bogart made 30 pictures playing a [tough guy], and it wasn`t until `Maltese Falcon` that he was thought of as a leading man.
Michael Madsen
I`ve always been a minimalist. It was Bogart who once said, `If you think the right thoughts, the camera will pick it up`. The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you`re halfway there.
Ian Holm
[on Lauren Bacall] `Betty` Bacall was the perfect mate for Bogey [Humphrey Bogart] -- beautiful, fair, warm, talented and highly intelligent. She gave as good as she got in the strong personality department. Women and men love her with equal devotion.
David Niven
Today`s movie villains often remind us of James Cagney and `Humphrey Bogart` and that`s as cool as it gets. There`s something comforting if they`re hip and cool. They`re not entirely real, or not entirely threatening, so it might be a little easier to swa...
Paul Anderson
I grew up in a time when I watched actors like Humphrey Bogart and Robert Mitchum ... those are the movies that I liked and I responded to. They`re all gone now and there`s no talent like that anymore, there`s no immensity of talent that exists like that ...
Michael Madsen
[on Humphrey Bogart] He was endowed with the greatest gift a man can have -- talent. The whole world came to recognize it. With the years he became increasingly aware of the dignity of his profession - Actor, not Star. Himself he never took seriously -- h...
John Huston
There was that very credible virility of guys like Spencer Tracy or Humphrey Bogart. I don`t think that I could one day resemble them, but in life and in movies I profoundly admired Bogart, both personally and professionally.
Lee Marvin
There was that very credible virility of guys like Spencer Tracy or Humphrey Bogart. I don`t think that I could one day resemble them, but in life and in movies I profoundly admired Bogart, both personally and professionally.
Lee Marvin
I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn`t act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.
Anthony Hopkins
We live in an age of mediocrity. Stars today are not the same stature as Bogie (Humphrey Bogart), James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart (James Stewart).
Lauren Bacall
