Casablanca 1943 quotes, page 2

Ferrari

I observe that you are in one respect a very fortunate man, Monsieur. I am moved to make one more suggestion, why, I do not know, because it cannot possibly profit me. Have you heard about Senor Ugarte and the letters of transit?

Laszlo

Yes, something.

Ferrari

Those letters were not found on Ugarte when they arrested him.

Laszlo

Do you know where they are?

Ferrari

Not for sure, Monsieur, but I will venture to guess that Ugarte left those letters with Monsieur Rick.

Laszlo

Rick?

Ferrari

He's a difficult customer, that Rick. One never knows what he'll do or why, but it is worth a chance.

Ilsa

All right, I tried to reason with you. I tried everything. Now I want those letters. Get them for me.

Rick

I don't have to. I got 'em right here.

Ilsa

Put them on the table.

Rick

No.

Ilsa

For the last time, put them on the table.

Rick

If Laszlo and the Cause mean so much to you, you won't stop at anything. All right, I'll make it easier for you. Go ahead and shoot. You'll be doing me a favor.

Ilsa

Richard, I tried to stay away. I thought I would never see you again, that you were out of my life.

Ilsa

The day you left Paris, if you knew what I went through. If you knew how much I loved you, how much I still love you. [they kiss]

Ilsa

A franc for your thoughts.

Rick

In America, they bring only a penny. I guess that's about all they're worth.

Ilsa

But I'm willing to be overcharged. Tell me.

Rick

And 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.

Rick

I'm sorry for asking. I forgot we said no questions.

Ilsa

Well, only one answer can take care of all our questions. [she kisses him]

Ilsa

Can I tell you a story, Rick?

Rick

Does it got a wow finish?

Ilsa

I don't know the finish yet.

Rick

Go on and 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, worshipped him, with a feeling she supposed was love.

Rick

Yes, that'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,' they'd always begin. Well, I guess neither one of our stories is very funny. Tell me, who was it you left me for? Was it Laszlo or were there others in between? Or aren't you the kind that tells?

Ilsa

I can't fight it anymore. I ran away from you once. I can't do it again. Oh, I don't know what's right any longer. You have to think for both of us. For all of us.

Rick

All right, I will. Here's looking at you, kid.

Ilsa

I wish I didn't love you so much.
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Ilsa

Last night, I saw what has happened to you. The Rick I knew in Paris I could tell him, he'd understand. But the one who looked at me with such hatred - I'll be leaving Casablanca soon and we'll never see each other again. We knew very little about each other when we were in love in Paris. If we leave it that way, maybe we'll remember those days and not Casablanca. Not last night.

Rick

Did you run out on me because you couldn't take it? Because you knew what it would be like, hiding out from the police, running away all the time?

Ilsa

You can believe that if you want to.

Rick

Well, I'm not running away any more. I'm settled now, above a saloon, it's true, but...walk up a flight. I'll be expecting you. All the same, someday you'll lie to Laszlo - you'll be there.

Ilsa

No, Rick. No, you see, Victor Laszlo's my husband and was, even when I knew you in Paris.

Ilsa

Richard, Victor thinks I'm leaving with him. Haven't you told him?

Rick

No, not yet.

Ilsa

But it's all right. You were able to arrange everything?

Rick

Everything is quite all right.

Ilsa

Oh, Rick.

Rick

We'll tell him at the airport. The less time to think, the easier for all of us. Please trust me.

Ilsa

Yes, I will.

Laszlo

And welcome back to the fight. This time I know our side will win.

Laszlo

I'm sure you'll excuse me if I'm not gracious. But you see Major Strasser, I'm a Czechoslovakian.

Strasser

You were a Czechoslovakian. Now you are a subject of the German Reich.

Laszlo

I've never accepted that privilege and I'm now on French soil.

Laszlo

This is a very interesting cafe. I congratulate you.

Rick

And I congratulate you.

Laszlo

What for?

Rick

Your work.

Laszlo

Thank you. I try.

Rick

We all try. You succeed.

Laszlo

Were you lonely in Paris?

Ilsa

Yes, Victor, I was.

Laszlo

I know how it is to be lonely. Is there anything you wish to tell me?

Ilsa

No, Victor, there isn't.

Laszlo

I love you very much, my dear.

Ilsa

Yes, yes I know.

Laszlo

You must know it's very important I get out of Casablanca. It's my privilege to be one of the leaders of a great movement. Do you know what I've been doing? Do you know what it means to the work - to the lives of thousands and thousands of people that I be free to reach America and continue my work.

Rick

I'm not interested in politics. The problems of the world are not in my department. I'm a saloon keeper.

Laszlo

My friends in the Underground tell me that you've got quite a record. You ran guns to Ethiopia. You fought against the Fascists in Spain.

Rick

What of it?

Laszlo

Isn't it strange that you always happen to be fighting on the side of the underdog?

Rick

Yes, I found that a very expensive hobby too, but then I never was much of a businessman.

Laszlo

Are you enough of a businessman to appreciate an offer of a hundred thousand francs?

Rick

I appreciate it, but I don't accept it.

Laszlo

I'll raise it to two hundred thousand.

Rick

My friend, you could make it a million francs or three. My answer would still be the same.

Laszlo

There must be some reason why you won't let me have them [the exit visas].

Rick

There is. I suggest that you ask your wife.

Renault

Unoccupied France welcomes you to Casablanca.

Strasser

Thank you, Captain. It's very good to be here.

Renault

You may find the climate of Casablanca a trifle warm, Major.

Strasser

Oh, we Germans must get used to all climates, from Russia to the Sahara. But perhaps you were not referring to the weather.

Renault

What else, my dear Major?

Renault

He came from Paris, with Rick.

Ilsa

Rick? Who's he?

Renault

Mademoiselle, you are in Rick's and Rick is, uh...

Ilsa

Is what?

Renault

Well, Mademoiselle, he's 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.

Renault

Oh, you're surprised about my friend, Ricky. The explanation is quite simple. Love, it seems, has triumphed over virtue.

Rick

Not so fast, Louis. Nobody's gonna be arrested - not for a while yet...And remember, this gun is pointed right at your heart.

Renault

That is my least vulnerable spot.