Quotes by James Cagney - Page 1

The Postman Always RingsTwice.
James Cagney / Actor
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You dirty, double-crossing rat.
James Cagney / Actor
Dirty
Double Standard
Rats
Rat
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I never said, 'MMMmmm, you dirty rat!
James Cagney / Actor
Dirty
Rats
Said
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I`m sick of carrying guns and beating up women.
James Cagney / Actor
Carrying Guns
Gun
Sick
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Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.
James Cagney / Actor
Happiness
Happy Life
Self
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Find your mark, look the other fellow in the eye, and tell the truth.
James Cagney / Actor
Eye
Looks
Telling The Truth
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Learn your lines… plant your feet… look the other actor in the eye… say the words… mean them.
James Cagney / Actor
Eye
Feet
Mean
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I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't really approve of it, through.
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Girl
Chorus
Fun
Mother
Sailor
Approve
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Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance man. Those few words tell as much about me professionally as there is to tell.
James Cagney / Actor
Men
Few Words
Song
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Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order.
James Cagney / Actor
Nature
My Family
Order
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You don't psych yourself up for these things, you do them... I'm acting for the audience, not for myself, and I do it as directly as I can.
James Cagney / Actor
Acting
Audience
Psych
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Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.
James Cagney / Actor
Kids
Car
Bike
Children
Lucky
People
Seems
Spoiled
Today People Young
Perhaps
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There's not much to say about acting but this. Never settle back on your heels. Never relax. If you relax, the audience relaxes. And always mean everything you say.
James Cagney / Actor
Mean
Never Settle
Relax
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My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking.
James Cagney / Actor
New York
Beautiful
Beautiful Country
Country
Ireland
Men Women Beautiful
Totally
Women Men Beautiful
Good-Looking
Women And Men
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I never had the slightest difficulty with a fellow actor. Not until One, Two, Three. In that picture, Horst Buchholz tried all sorts of scene-stealing didoes. I came close to knocking him on his ass.
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Actors
Three
Two
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Though I soon became typecast in Hollywood as a gangster and hoodlum, I was originally a dancer, an Irish hoofer, trained in vaudeville tap dance. I always leapt at the opportunity to dance in films later on.
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Dance
Opportunity
Hollywood
Vaudeville
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My childhood was surrounded by trouble, illness, and my dad's alcoholism, but as I said, we just didn't have the time to be impressed by all those misfortunes. I have an idea that the Irish possess a built-in don't-give-a-damn that helps them through all the stress.
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Dad
Ideas
Stress
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You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.
James Cagney / Actor
War
Dancer
Roaring
Struggle
Tired
Today
Twenties
World War I
Best Today World
Actor
Period
Worked
World War
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New Orleans is 5 feet below sea level, which means that holes dug in the ground immediately fill with water. Coffins were punctured and sunk with weights, which didn't stop them from floating up out of the cemeteries and down the streets of the French Quarter on stormy nights. The solution was to bury people above ground, in what are called vaults.
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Mean
New Orleans
Night
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