Bogart Quote by Anthony Hopkins

The actors I admired were Bogart, Cagney, Cooper, Tracy. Great personalities. Real stars.

— Jean-Paul Belmondo

I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably…

— Patrick Macnee

Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily…

— Julian Sands

I think it's great to see how they've grown up, not just as actors but as people. They're still very much the same kids…

— David Heyman

They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities…

— J. D. Salinger

I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.

— Sam Rockwell

I think I've grown up in an era where character acting on film has become less desirable for the producers and directors and therefore…

— David Suchet

The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.

— Kenneth Branagh

Bogart was like Henry Fonda - proud and happy to be an actor.

— Katharine Hepburn

Dirk Bogarde was very handsome, very hot, and a brilliant actor.

— Cole Escola

The actors at that time had to learn all that stuff, it wasn't just hyperbole. What was appealing to me about being an actor…

— Alden Ehrenreich

Good actors aren't enough. You need charisma. Can you imagine 'Casablanca' without Bogart and Bergman?

— Sydney Pollack