To Have and Have Not (1944)

Humphrey Bogart: Harry 'Steve' Morgan

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Quotes 

• [Slim kisses Steve] 

  Steve : What did you do that for?

  Slim : I've been wondering if I'd like it.

  Steve : What's the decision?

  Slim : I don't know yet.

  [They kiss again] 

  Slim : It's even better when you help.

• Slim : Who was the girl, Steve?

  Steve : Who was what girl?

  Slim : The one who left you with such a high opinion of women. She must have been *quite* a gal.

• Slim : I'm hard to get, Steve. All you have to do is ask me.

  Steve : You know what you're getting into. It's gonna be rough.

• Steve : I got to get nursie out of here or she never will come to.

  [picks up Mme de Bursac who passed out from chloroform, Slim follows] 

  Slim : What are you trying to do, guess her weight?

  Steve : She's heftier than you think.

  [lays her down on a bed] 

  Steve : Better loosen her clothes.

  Slim : You've been doing all right.

  [Steve starts to loosen] 

  Slim : Eh, maybe you'd better look after her husband.

  Steve : He's not going to run out on me.

  Slim : Neither is she.

• Johnson : [Referring to Eddie]  I don't see why you keep that man around!

  Steve : Eddie was a good man before he became a rummy.

• Slim : Give her my love.

  Steve : I'd give her my own if she had that on!

• Capt. M. Renard : By the way, what are your sympathies?

  Steve : Minding my own business.

• Steve : You're both going to take a beating 'til one of you uses that phone. That means one of you will take a beating for nothing.

• Eddie : [Steering the boat]  What's the matter? Why are you lookin' at me like that fer? What are you laughin' at?

  Steve : Just a joke that neither one of us knows the answer to.

  Eddie : What joke?

  Steve : Whether you're gonna hold together or not.

  Eddie : [His feelings hurt]  Don't say that, Harry! I'm a good man! You know I am!

  Steve : Yeah, I know you are, but you're goin' all over the ocean. Stay on your course.

  Eddie : Why do you always... Hey, could I have just one? I don't want to get the shakes.

  Steve : Make it short! I want you rum brave, not useless.

  Eddie : [Anxious to get below decks to have his drink]  Thanks, Harry!

• Johnson : What sort of a day will it be?

  Steve : I don't know. Just about like yesterday. Only better.

• Steve : Anybody got a match?

  Slim : Change your mind?

  Steve : No money, those guys cleaned me out.

  Slim : I forgot too - maybe I can do something, its been a long day and I'm thirsty.

  [surveys club patrons] 

  Steve : Picked him out yet?

  Slim : You don't mind do you?

  Steve : You're thirsty, go ahead. If I get tired of waiting, I'll be back at that hotel.

  Slim : All right

  [starts moving through tables] 

• [first lines] 

  Title Card : Martinique, in the summer of 1940, shortly after the fall of France.

  Title Card : Forte de France

  Steve : Morning.

  Officer at port : Good Morning, Captain Morgan. What can I do for you today?

  Steve : Same thing as yesterday.

  Officer at port : You and your client wish to make a temporary exit from the port?

  Steve : *That* is right.

  Officer at port : Name?

  Steve : Ha - Harry Morgan.

  Officer at port : Nationality?

  Steve : Eskimo.

  Officer at port : What?

  Steve : American.

• Steve : [to the Bursacs]  Get down on the deck flat and stay there!

  Paul de Bursac : [Apprehensively]  But I don't know what good it'll be to try to resist. We will be killed!

  Steve : [Angrily]  Shut up, both of you! Get down on that deck flat! You save France - I want to save my boat!

• Steve : Would you go back if you could?

  Slim : I'd walk... . if it wasn't for all that water.

• Steve : What made you so mad?

  Slim : I've been mad ever since I met you.

  Steve : Most people are.

• Steve : You've been wanting to do something for me, haven't you? Walk around me. Go ahead, walk around me, clear around.

  [Slim walks around Steve] 

  Steve : Did you find anything?

  Slim : No. No, Steve. There are no strings tied to you. Not yet.

• Steve : You didn't bring him here?

  Gerard aka Frenchy : In the cellar.

  Steve : Why didn't you put him on the center table in a goldfish bowl and be done with it?

• Mme. Hellene de Bursac : I'm just having a hard time trying to say something.

  Steve : Go ahead, say it. I'm not gonna bite you.

• Steve : [to a grateful Marcel Dalio]  No kissin', Frenchy!

• Steve : I got to get some gas.

  Johnson : All right.

  Steve : I'll need money for that.

  Johnson : How much?

  Steve : Oh, 28 cents a gallon at 40 gallons. That'll be $11.20.

• Slim : You're sore, aren't you?

  Steve : Why should I be?

  Slim : I didn't behave very well, did I?

  Steve : You did all right. You got the bottle, didn't you?

  Slim : You're sore, aren't you?

  Steve : Now, look, get this straight, I don't care...

  Slim : I know. I know. You don't give a whoop what I do. But when I do it, you get sore.

• Steve : I don't know when you'll get back home. It could be a long time.

  Slim : It could be forever - or are you afraid of that?

• Steve : If you hired a car and ran it over a cliff, you'd have to pay for it.

  Eddie : Not if you was in it. That's a good one!

• Steve : Come on.

  Slim : What are you talking about? Say, mister, what's got into you?

  [Steve escorts her to a room, closes and locks the door] 

  Slim : What do you think you're gonna do?

  Steve : I'm gonna get that wallet, Slim.

  Slim : I'd rather you wouldn't call me Slim. I'm a little too skinny to take it kindly.

  Steve : Quit the baby talk. Which is it?

  Slim : You know, Steve, I wouldn't put it past you.

  [pulls out Johnson's wallet from underneath her top] 

  Slim : I didn't know you were a hotel detective.

• Steve : If I hadn't stopped you, you'd have gotten away with the whole works. After all, I am entitled to something. Don't you think so, Slim? What do you think's fair?

  Slim : I'll leave that to you.

• Beauclere - Gaullist : Mr. Morgan, I thought all Americans were friendly to our side.

  Steve : Well, that's right, they are. But, you see, there's a rumor going around that they put fellas on Devil's Island for doing what you're doing. I'm not that friendly to anybody.

• Steve : Go ahead. Slap me.

  Capt. M. Renard : Come, come, Capitaine. This is not a brawl. We merely wish to get to the bottom of this affair.

  Steve : You'll never do it by slapping people around. That's bad luck.

  Capt. M. Renard : Well, we shall see.

• Slim : Hey!

  Steve : Stay where you are.

  Slim : I think I'm sitting on somebody's cigarette.

• Steve : Sorry. Now, look, boys, we could stay at this all night and the answer would still be the same. I don't care who runs France or Martinique or who wants to run it. You'll have to get somebody else.

• Slim : One look and you made up your mind just what you wanted to think about me. You were - oh, what's the use?

  Steve : Go ahead. Keep on going.

  Slim : You don't know me, Steve.

• Slim : All right. All right. I won't do it anymore.

  Steve : Look, I didn't ask...

  Slim : I know you didn't. Don't worry. I'm not giving up anything I care about. It's like shooting fish in a barrel, anyway. Men like that. They're all a bunch of - I'm a fine one to talk. The pot calling the kettle.

• Slim : The story of my life. Where do you want me to begin?

  Steve : I got a pretty fair idea already.

  Slim : Who told you?

  Steve : You did. That slap in the face you took.

  Slim : What about it?

  Steve : You hardly blinked an eye. It takes a lot of practice to do that. Yeah, I know a lot about you, Slim.

  Slim : The next time I get slapped I better do something about it.

• Beauclere - Gaullist : One thing, Mr. Morgan. Last night you very definitely refused to have anything to do with us. Why have you changed your mind?

  Steve : I need the money now. Last night I didn't.

  Beauclere - Gaullist : If you knew what this means to us.

  Steve : I don't want to know.

  Beauclere - Gaullist : I'm glad you're on our side.

  Steve : I'm not. I'm getting paid.

• Slim : I'll leave my address with Frenchy so you can find me.

  Steve : Well, maybe I'll know how to whistle by then.

• Steve : If I thought you could swim back I'd dump you overboard.

  Eddie : Oh, you're a old joker. You and me's got to stick together when we're in trouble.

  Steve : How do you know I'm in trouble?

  Eddie : Oh, you can't fool me. I always know.

• Steve : Do you know how to handle one of these?

  Eddie : Of course, I know how to handle one! Everybody knows how to handle a gun. All you do is work the lever and pull the trigger. You know I know that! Sometimes you ask such foolish questions. Do I know how to handle a gun? Of course, I know how to handle - what I got to work a gun fer?

  Steve : I just wondered if you could.

  Eddie : Well, you know I can! Harry, sometimes you act stupid. Just plain stupid! Sometimes I think you don't pay no attention to nothin' I say. Is it gonna be that bad, Harry?

  Steve : I don't know yet. It all depends on how lucky we are.

• Steve : Here's what I want you to do. Take this gun and get back in the stern. If there's any trouble, start shootin'. But don't shoot me.

  Eddie : Yeah, but, supposin' somethin' happens to you? What do I do then?

  Steve : How do I know? You invited yourself on this trip, not me.

• Eddie : What do you want me to do?

  Steve : If we're lucky, nothing. If we're not, hook her up and get away from here fast.

• Mme. Hellene de Bursac : Please help me get him on the seat.

  Steve : Leave him where he is. I don't want him bleedin' all over my cushion.

• Steve : You know, I went through a lot of trouble to get you out of here.

  Slim : That's why I didn't go.

  Steve : Yeah. You dames. A guy goes out and breaks his neck to - well, I might have expected it.

• Steve : Come on aboard. Hey, wait a minute. He didn't say anything about a woman.

  Paul de Bursac : Permit me. This is my wife, Madame de Bursac.

  Steve : How do you do?

  [tips his hat] 

  Steve : What do you want to bring a... Well, it's your funeral. All right, let's get out of here.

• Paul de Bursac : Mr. Morgan, just who are you?

  Steve : I own this boat. Beauclere's paying me to get you people back to Martinique.

  Paul de Bursac : You're not one of us. You're not on our side.

  Steve : No.

  Paul de Bursac : I don't understand.

  Steve : I don't understand what kind of a war you guys are fighting - lugging your wives with you. Don't you get enough of them at home?

• Mme. Hellene de Bursac : I don't think I'll ever be angry again with anything you say.

  Steve : Another screwy dame. Now, how can you...

  Slim : [walks in after having listened to their conversation]  Good morning. I hate to break this up, but I've brought some breakfast.

• Steve : Don't get tough with Slim. She's apt to slap you back.

• Slim : I'm going to work. Do you like it?

  Steve : You won't have to sing much in that outfit.

  Slim : You know, sometimes you make me so...

  Steve : That's why I do it.

• Steve : I got a hunch the whole thing's gonna blow up, it's too quiet.

• Gerard aka Frenchy : Why are you doing this, Harry?

  Steve : Well, I don't know. Maybe because I like you, maybe because I don't like them.