Casablanca (film) misquotation. One of the lines most closely associated with the film—"Play it again, Sam"—is inaccurate. When Ilsa first enters the Café Americain, she spots Sam and asks him to "Play it once, Sam, for old times' sake." After he feigns ignorance, she responds, "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By'." Later that night, alone with Sam, Rick says, "You played it for her, you can play it for me," and "If she can stand it, I can! Play it!" Rick's toast to Ilsa, "Here's looking at you, kid", used four times, was not written into the draft screenplays, but
Humphrey Bogart top 100 quotations in American cinema, the most by any actor: Bogart is also credited with one of the top movie misquotations, "Play it again, Sam". In "Casablanca", neither his Rick Blaine character nor anyone else says the line, although it is widely credited to him and is the verbatim title of a Woody Allen tribute movie. Roger Moore says "Play it again Sam" in Moonraker, just after killing Chang in Venice. When Blaine's former love, Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), first enters his "Café Americain", she spots Sam, the piano player (Dooley Wilson), and asks him to "Play it once, Sam,