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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.»
Author: James Cagney
«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.»
Author: James Cagney
«One thing that troubles me is that they say that my portrayals of gangsters and hoodlums led to a tolerance of the criminal element by society. Well, I certainly hope they didn't, because I'm firmly opposed to crime.»
Author: James Cagney
«you dirty rat»
Author: James Cagney
«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.»
Author: James Cagney
«It was just everyday living. With me, it was fighting, more fighting, and more fighting. Life then was simply the way it was: ordinary, not bad, not good, just regular. No stress, no strain. Of course, no one had much of anything, but we didn't know that we were poor.»
Author: James Cagney
«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.»
Author: James Cagney
«If the American family has seemed in danger of disintegration, I believe and hope it will survive, and I think America will return to old values.»
Author: James Cagney
«The 1920s were essentially the time when I learned the business of performing. It was my initiation into the world of show business.»
Author: 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.»
Author: James Cagney
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