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Film Quotes by James Cagney

135 quotes
Lady Killer
Year: 1933

Director:
Roy Del Ruth
Spade Maddock: [discussing diamond-studded Mrs. Marley at the gang's speakeasy] C'mere - take a gander at her.
Dan Quigley: [eyeing her through a peephole] Did you say "gander?" I wonder how she'd go for a goose.
Something to Sing About
Year: 1937

Director:
Victor Schertzinger
Hank Meyers: [reacting to Terry's real name] Thaddeus McGillicuddy?
Rita Wyatt: We like it.
Hank Meyers: Are you kidding, Terry?
Terrence 'Terry'; Rooney: Oh no, absolutely on the level. I'm sorry, Hank - they did it to me when I was asleep.
Taxi!
Year: 1932

Director:
Roy Del Ruth
Cop with Jewish Man: [after Nolan speaks perfect Yiddish] Nolan, what part of Ireland did your folks come from?
Matt Nolan: Delancey Street, thank you.
-- James Cagney in Taxi! (1932)
Captains of the Clouds
Year: 1942

Director:
Michael Curtiz
Emily Foster: Hey! What brought you back?
Brian MacLean: A whim.
Emily Foster: Well you can keep on going.
Brian MacLean: Oh you don't know me. I have a whim of iron!
-- James Cagney (as Brian MacLean) in Captains of the Clouds (1942)
The Strawberry Blonde
Year: 1941

Director:
Raoul Walsh
Amy Lind: There's something about the country air.
Biff Grimes: Hm?
Amy Lind: I said, there's something about the country air.
Biff Grimes: I like city air.
Amy Lind: Well... there really isn't any difference between city air and country air. They're both hydrogen, and oxygen, and -...
Biff Grimes: Air! You can't even see it, so why talk about it?
-- James Cagney (as Biff Grimes) in The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
The Strawberry Blonde
Year: 1941

Director:
Raoul Walsh
Amy Lind: You're not a very easy person to get to know, Mr. Grimes.
Biff Grimes: Well, that's the kind of a hairpin I am.
-- James Cagney (as Biff Grimes) in The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
The West Point Story
Year: 1950

Director:
Roy Del Ruth
Tom Fletcher: [after auditioning a song] How'd you like it, sir?
Elwin 'Bix' Bixby: Um. Wouldn't hiss and wouldn't cheer.
One, Two, Three
Year: 1961

Director:
Billy Wilder
Peripetchikoff: No formula, NO DEAL!
C.R. MacNamara: OK, NO DEAL!
Borodenko: We do not need you! If we want Coca-cola, we invent it ourselves!
C.R. MacNamara: Oh, yeah? In 1956 you flew a bottle of Coke to a secret laboratory in Sverdlosk. A dozen of your top chemists went nuts trying to analyze the ingredients. Right?
Mishkin: No comment!
C.R. MacNamara: And in 1958, you planted two undercover agents in Atlanta to steal the formula. And what happened? They both defected! And now they're successful businessmen in Florida packaging instant borscht. Right?
Peripetchikoff: No comment!
C.R. MacNamara: Last year you put out a cockamamie imitation "Kremlin-kola!" You tried it out in the satellite countries, but even the Albanians wouldn't drink it. They used it for SHEEP DIP! RIGHT?
Mishkin: No comment!
C.R. MacNamara: So either get down to business or get off the pot!
-- James Cagney (as C.R. MacNamara) in One, Two, Three (1961)
One, Two, Three
Year: 1961

Director:
Billy Wilder
Peripetchikoff: While they are putting Uncle Sam in cuckoo clock, we will put Soviet cosmonaut on moon.
C.R. MacNamara: Okay, so you guys may be the first to shoot a man to the moon, but if he wants a Coke on the way, you'll have to come to us.
-- James Cagney (as C.R. MacNamara) in One, Two, Three (1961)
Angels with Dirty Faces
Year: 1938

Director:
Michael Curtiz
Soapy: Hey! Call a fair game or I'll slap you right in the kisser!
Rocky Sullivan: You'll slap me? You slap me in a dream, you better wake up and apologize.
-- James Cagney (as Rocky Sullivan) in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)