In Casablanca, what does Rick say while raising a toast to Ilsa?
Answer
Here's looking at you, kid.
In Casablanca, Rick says, “Here's looking at you, kid.”
Humphrey Bogart delivers the toast as Rick Blaine to Ilsa Lund, played by Ingrid Bergman. The line appears in several emotionally charged moments, including their memories of Paris and their final farewell at the airport. Its repetition links their lost romance with Rick’s eventual decision to help Ilsa escape.
Michael Curtiz directed Casablanca, which Warner Bros. released in 1942. The film is set during World War II and follows Rick, an American expatriate who runs a nightclub in Morocco. Its screenplay was adapted from the unproduced stage play Everybody Comes to Rick’s.
The quotation is sometimes confused with “Play it again, Sam,” a line that is not spoken exactly that way in the film. “Here's looking at you, kid” is the toast most directly associated with Rick’s relationship with Ilsa.