Captain Renault:
My dear Ricky, you overestimate the influence of the Gestapo. I don't interfere with them and they don't interfere with me. In Casablanca I am master of my fate! I am...
Police Officer: Major Strasser is here, sir!
Rick: You were saying?
Captain Renault: Excuse me.
--Claude Rains (as Captain Louis Renault) in Casablanca
Police Officer: Major Strasser is here, sir!
Rick: You were saying?
Captain Renault: Excuse me.
--Claude Rains (as Captain Louis Renault) in Casablanca
Captain Renault:
Oh no, Emil, please. A bottle of your best champagne, and put it on my bill.
Emil: Very well, sir.
Victor Laszlo: Captain, please...
Captain Renault: Oh, please, monsieur. It is a little game we play. They put it on the bill, I tear up the bill. It is very convenient.
--Claude Rains (as Captain Louis Renault) in Casablanca
Emil: Very well, sir.
Victor Laszlo: Captain, please...
Captain Renault: Oh, please, monsieur. It is a little game we play. They put it on the bill, I tear up the bill. It is very convenient.
--Claude Rains (as Captain Louis Renault) in Casablanca
Captain Renault:
Realizing the importance of the case, my men are rounding up twice the usual number of suspects.
--Claude Rains (as Captain Louis Renault) in Casablanca
--Claude Rains (as Captain Louis Renault) in Casablanca
David Belasco:
The scene is finished... either applaud or get out of the way.
--Claude Rains (as ) in Lady with Red Hair
--Claude Rains (as ) in Lady with Red Hair
Job Skeffington:
[to Fanny, when she reprimands him for being unfaithful] You mustn't be too harsh on my secretaries. They were always very understanding when I came to the office after a hard day at home.
--Claude Rains (as Job Skeffington) in Mr. Skeffington
--Claude Rains (as Job Skeffington) in Mr. Skeffington
Julius Caesar:
And so to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right, and justice, and peace, until the gods create a race of men that can understand.
--Claude Rains (as Julius Caesar) in Caesar and Cleopatra
--Claude Rains (as Julius Caesar) in Caesar and Cleopatra
Julius Caesar:
Go, Ptolemy. Always take a throne when it is offered to you.
--Claude Rains (as Julius Caesar) in Caesar and Cleopatra
--Claude Rains (as Julius Caesar) in Caesar and Cleopatra
Julius Caesar:
Is it sweet or bitter to be a queen?
Cleopatra: Bitter.
Julius Caesar: Cast out fear, and you will conquer Caeser.
--Claude Rains (as Julius Caesar) in Caesar and Cleopatra
Cleopatra: Bitter.
Julius Caesar: Cast out fear, and you will conquer Caeser.
--Claude Rains (as Julius Caesar) in Caesar and Cleopatra
King Herod:
The child of imagination is the child I fear.
--Claude Rains (as King Herod) in The Greatest Story Ever Told
--Claude Rains (as King Herod) in The Greatest Story Ever Told
Nick:
[upon hearing a ruckus] What in my domain is that?
--Claude Rains (as Nick) in Angel on My Shoulder
--Claude Rains (as Nick) in Angel on My Shoulder
