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
[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
If one vote per precinct had changed in 1960, John Kennedy would never have been President of this nation. And if a few more people had gone to the polls and voted in 1968, Hubert Humphrey would have been President; Richard Nixon would not. - during his c...
Jimmy Carter
With Humphrey, I just felt like it was too hard to stop her and not expect three or four other guys to have 15, 20 points. So our game plan, to be honest, was to let her get 20-something points. We figured she`d get 20 to 25 points, and we wanted to try t...
Arnold Aronson
[Day] is the incumbent. He`s doing a good job. Liam is certainly working hard and doing a quality job at times, and Taylor Humphrey is certainly better now than he was in the spring.... We can continue to compete and continue to evaluate every single day ...
Don Brown
Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
Barry Goldwater
