Casablanca 1943 quotes, page 6

Rick

But it's still a story without an ending. What about now?

Ilsa

Now? I don't know. I know that I'll never have the strength to leave you again.

Rick

And Laszlo?

Ilsa

Oh, you'll help him now, Richard, won't you? You'll see that he gets out? Then he'll have his work, all that he's been living for.

Rick

All except one. He won't have you.

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.

Rick

Yes, I have the letters, but I intend using them myself. I'm leaving Casablanca on tonight's plane, the last plane.

Renault

Huh?

Rick

And I'm taking a friend with me. One you'll appreciate.

Renault

What friend?

Rick

Ilsa Lund. That ought to put your mind to rest about my helping Laszlo escape, the last man I want to see in America.

Renault

There's still something about this business I don't quite understand. Miss Lund, she's very beautiful, yes. But you were never interested in any woman.

Rick

She isn't just 'any woman.'

Renault

I see. How do I know you'll keep your end of the bargain?

Rick

I'll make the arrangements right now with Laszlo in the visitor's pen.

Renault

Ricky, I'm gonna miss you. Apparently, you're the only one in Casablanca who has even less scruples than I.

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.

Renault

Victor Laszlo, you are under arrest on a charge of accessory to the murder of the couriers from whom these letters were stolen. 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.

Rick

Last night we said a great many things. You said I was to do the thinking for both of us. Well, I've done a lot of it since then, and it all adds up to one thing: you're getting on that plane with Victor where you belong.

Ilsa

But, Richard, no, I... I...

Rick

Now, you've got to listen to me! You have any idea what you'd have to look forward to if you stayed here? Nine chances out of ten, we'd both wind up in a concentration camp. Isn't that true, Louie?

Renault

I'm afraid Major Strasser would insist.

Ilsa

You're saying this only to make me go.

Rick

I'm saying it because it's true. Inside of us, we both know you belong with Victor. You're part of his work, the thing that keeps him going. If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.

Ilsa

But what about us?

Rick

We'll always have Paris. We didn't have...we'd...we'd lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.

Ilsa

When I said I would never leave you...

Rick

And you never will. But I've got a job to do, too. Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Here's looking at you, kid.
Note: bolded line is ranked #43 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

Laszlo

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

Renault

Well, I was right. You are a sentimentalist...What you just did for Laszlo, that fairy tale you invented to send Ilsa away with him. I know a little about women, my friend. She went, but she knew you were lying.

Rick

Anyway, thanks for helping me out.

Renault

I suppose you know this isn't going to be very pleasant for either of us, especially for you. I'll have to arrest you, of course.

Rick

As soon as the plane goes, Louis.

Renault

Well, Rick, you're not only a sentimentalist, but you've become a patriot.

Rick

Maybe, but it seemed like a good time to start.

Renault

I think perhaps you're right.

Victor Laszlo

In a concentration camp, one is apt to lose a little weight.

Strasser

You see what I mean? If Laszlo's presence in a cafe can inspire this unfortunate demonstration, what more will his presence in Casablanca bring on? I advise that this place be shut up at once.

Renault

But everybody's having such a good time.

Strasser

Yes, much too good a time. The place is to be closed.

Renault

But I've no excuse to close it!

Strasser

Find one. [leaves]

Renault

Everybody is to leave here immediately! This cafe is closed until further notice. Clear the room, at once!

Rick

How can you close me up? On what grounds?

Renault

I am shocked—shocked!—to find that gambling is going on in here!

Your winnings, sir.

Renault

Oh, thank you very much. [announcing to the room] Everybody out at once!

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.
Bolded section ranked #5 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

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.