James Cagney Quotes

You dirty rat... ~ James Cagney

In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic. ~ Loni Anderson

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

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. ~ James Cagney

I hate the word superstar". I have never been able to think in those terms. They are overstatements. You don`t hear them speak of Shakespeare as a superpoet. You don`t hear them call Michelangelo a superpainter. They only apply the word to this mundane market ~ James Cagney

I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie. ~ Jimmy Fallon

Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth. ~ Larry Merchant

The Postman Always RingsTwice. ~ James Cagney

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. ~ James Cagney

James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them. ~ Mark Wahlberg

But he had always believed in fighting for the underdog, against the top dog. He had learned it, not from The Home, or The School, or The Church, but from that fourth and other great moulder of social conscience, The Movies. From all those movies that had begun to come out when Roosevelt went in.
He had been a kid back then, a kid who had not been on the bum yet, but he was raised up on all those movies that they made then, the ones that were between '32 and '37 and had not yet degenerated into commercial imitations of themselves like the Dead End Kid perpetual series that we have now. He had grown up with them, those movies like the every first Dead End, like Winternet, like Grapes Of Wrath, like Dust Be My Destiny, and those other movies starring John Garfield and the Lane girls, and the on-the-bum and prison pictures starring James Cagney and George Raft and Henry Fonda. ~ James Jones

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

Learn your lines ... plant your feet ... look the other actor in the eye ... say the words ... mean them. ~ James Cagney

I`m sick of carrying guns and beating up women. ~ James Cagney

Where once was a vertebrae is now a tangle, from constant kissing at an awkward angle. ~ James Cagney

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

We worked so hard," [Joan Blondell] said, "and hardly ever had a day off ... Saturday was a working day and we usually worked right into Sunday morning." Joan's good nature may have worked against her in the long run. While fellow Warner Brothers workers Bette Davis, James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland and Humphrey Bogart fought like lions for better roles and more creative input, Joan took things in stride, at least through the early 1930s. "I just sailed through things, took the scripts I was given, did what I was told. I couldn't afford to go on suspension - my family needed what I could make. ~ Eve Golden

I was a Depression kid, growing up in Oklahoma. ~ James Garner

[Stoner] said you don't kill two women and just stop there. I disagreed. I told Bill he was unduly tied to cop empiricism. I said the San Gabriel Valley was this deus ex machina. The people who flocked there flocked there for unconscious reasons that superseded conscious application of logic and made anything possible. The region defined the crime. The region was the crime ... The region explained it all. The unconscious San Gabriel Valley migration explained every absurd and murderous act that went down there. Our job was to pin point three people within that migration. ~ James Ellroy

I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing. ~ James Salter

Gases are distinguished from other forms of matter, not only by their power of indefinite expansion so as to fill any vessel, however large, and by the great effect heat has in dilating them, but by the uniformity and simplicity of the laws which regulate these changes. ~ James Clerk Maxwell

Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying. ~ James Caan

it sucks to get old...but there's always beer ~ James Rollins

Let there be no mincing of comparisons in this assertion. Not Turner, not Monet, painted so directly blinding shafts of sunlight as has this Spaniard. ~ James Huneker

Moorehouse and Rogers, one of whom was the legendary Collins Rappaport as second chair. Parisi, as co-counsel to the law firm, would be first chair, and he would be doing hand-to-hand combat with her. Yuki ~ James Patterson

God brings tests into your life because your faith in Him
your belief that He is in control and that He is good
can be proved only in times when life is hard. ~ James MacDonald

the company - that at the eleventh hour an old ship with a lower standard of speed had been put on in place of the vessel in which I had taken my passage. America was roasting, England might very well be stuffy, and a slow passage (which at that season of the year would probably also be a fine one) was a guarantee of ten or twelve days of fresh air. I strolled down ~ Henry James

This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief. ~ James Lovelock

Matthew nodded, but he ducked his head down against Jamie's coat and stayed there for a moment ~ Cassandra Clare

She had seen Holden on the newsfeeds and reports. At the beginning of the war between Mars and the Belt, he had been the most important man in the solar system, and the celebrity, while it had waxed and waned over the years, had never gone away. James Holden was an icon. For some, he was the symbol of the triumph of the single ship over governments and corporations. For others, he was an agent of chaos who started wars and threatened stability in the name of ideological purity. But whatever people thought he meant, there was no question that he was important. He was the man who'd saved Earth from the protomolecule. He was the man who'd brought down Mao-Kwikowski. Who'd made the first contact with the alien artifact and opened the gates that led to a thousand different worlds. In person, he looked different ~ James S.A. Corey

Be careful when you ask Karma for something that you have always wanted. When I was young, I asked to be surrounded by beautiful women. Now I have a wife and four daughters. ~ James Hauenstein

They drove through the small town. Theo could see little through the windshield, but his senses were alive. The three of them - the beater, the boy, and the dog - said nothing all the way home, anchored in the weight of their terrible love. ~ Steven James Taylor

That kind of forgiveness is of God. And if they have it, they have it, and if they don't, well, maybe they'll find it someday. ~ James C. Dobson

Although only three legs would obey him, the white wolf began to run. Run, to outpace the agony that could rip and tear a human heart. Run, to outdistance the human grief that could not be borne. Run, to be as the moon, a swift white shape gleaming in the night. Run, to be a wolf and only a wolf.
As he raced away into the welcoming arms of the night, James was only fleetingly aware that he had just buried his human self alongside Evelyn.
And then he was aware of nothing. ~ Dani Harper

Maybe ye don't know it, Mr. Herriot, but this is the best time of your life.' 'Do you think so?' 'Aye, there's no doubt about it. When your children are young and growin' up around ye - that's when it's best. It's the same for everybody, only a lot o' folk don't know it and a lot find out when it's too late. It doesn't last long, you know. ~ James Herriot

Use familiar words-words that your readers will understand, and not words they will have to look up. No advice is more elementary, and no advice is more difficult to accept. When we feel an impulse to use a marvelously exotic word, let us lie down until the impulse goes away. ~ James J. Kilpatrick

If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into a saloon, finding an etiolated Henry James slumped at the bar in a haze of indecision, and shooting him dead. ~ Adam Haslett

Every day from the crack of dawn," he said- and i completed the rest, "until we can't keep our eyes open one second longer ~ James Patterson

Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths. ~ Philip James Bailey

In the realm of power, Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. This particular true faith, moreover, is more deeply concerned about the soul than it is about the body, to which fact the flesh (and the corpses) of countless infidels bears witness. ~ James Baldwin

It's weird, the idea of someone else playing my dad, but weirdly nice. ~ Lily James

Nature is my religion. And my desire ... my ambition ... the great goal I wish to achieve is to take my readers with me into the heart of this Nature. I love it, and I feel that they must love it ... if I can only get the two acquainted. ~ James Oliver Curwood

It's time to start living the life you've imagined. ~ Henry James

Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out. ~ James Bryant Conant

No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp. ~ William James

But we are what we are, and humans will always hate. ~ James Frey

Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart. ~ James Russell Lowell

Jack: Where to, Miss?
Rose: To the stars. ~ James Cameron

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise. ~ William James

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. ~ Bill James

i am afraid of dreaming now a days ~ Bibek Ranjan

Some people make a separate argument about the red light cameras. They say it just changes the type of crash that's most likely to occur at an intersection. ~ Robert James Thomson

Unwrapping the paper carefully so it doesn't tear, I find a beautiful red leather box. Cartier. It's familiar, thanks to my second-chance earrings and my watch. Cautiously, I open the box to discover a delicate charm bracelet of silver or platinum or white gold - I don't know, but it's absolutely enchanting. Attached to it are several charms: the Eiffel Tower; a London black cab; a helicopter - Charlie Tango; a glider - the soaring, a catamaran - The Grace; a bed; and an ice cream cone? I look up at him, bemused. "Vanilla?" He shrugs apologetically( ... ) ~ E.L. James

Is there any more important problem than our lack of need-based scholarships? I think not. ~ James E. Rogers

Oh my, the look he gives me could be solely responsible for global warming. ~ E.L. James