Film Quotes by James Cagney
135 quotes
Year: 1941
Director:
Raoul Walsh
Director:
Raoul Walsh
Virginia Brush:
[they are at the Statue of Liberty and they watch a woman slap a man for trying to kiss her]
Virginia Brush: And she was right too.
Biff Grimes: Well, if a man can't get liberties here, where can he?
Virginia Brush: And she was right too.
Biff Grimes: Well, if a man can't get liberties here, where can he?
--
James Cagney
(as Biff Grimes)
in
The Strawberry Blonde
(1941)
Year: 1950
Director:
Gordon Douglas
Director:
Gordon Douglas
Holiday Carleton:
He's too smart for you!
Ralph Cotter: Oh no, he stopped being smart when he took my money.
Ralph Cotter: Oh no, he stopped being smart when he took my money.
--
James Cagney
in
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
(1950)
Year: 1931
Director:
Roy Del Ruth
Director:
Roy Del Ruth
Bert Harris:
If I had the wings of an angel honey, over these prison walls I would fly!
--
James Cagney
(as Bert Harris)
in
Blonde Crazy
(1931)
Year: 1931
Director:
Roy Del Ruth
Director:
Roy Del Ruth
Bert Harris:
Mmm, that dirty, double-crossin' rat!
--
James Cagney
(as Bert Harris)
in
Blonde Crazy
(1931)
Year: 1941
Director:
Raoul Walsh
Director:
Raoul Walsh
Biff Grimes:
I'm gonna have a smoke.
Amy Lind: May I have one too, please?
Biff Grimes: Oh, sure. Hey! Don't tell me you smoke!
Amy Lind: Only when I'm bored.
Biff Grimes: Well, your mother's a bloomer girl, you're a nicotine fiend, are there any more at home like you?
Amy Lind: I have an aunt who's an actress.
Biff Grimes: Well, that completes the picture. I've been around, they can say an awful lot of things about Biff Grimes, but not that he ever gave a cigarette to a girl.
Amy Lind: May I have one too, please?
Biff Grimes: Oh, sure. Hey! Don't tell me you smoke!
Amy Lind: Only when I'm bored.
Biff Grimes: Well, your mother's a bloomer girl, you're a nicotine fiend, are there any more at home like you?
Amy Lind: I have an aunt who's an actress.
Biff Grimes: Well, that completes the picture. I've been around, they can say an awful lot of things about Biff Grimes, but not that he ever gave a cigarette to a girl.
--
James Cagney
(as Biff Grimes)
in
The Strawberry Blonde
(1941)
Year: 1961
Director:
Billy Wilder
Director:
Billy Wilder
C.R. MacNamara:
[Greeting the three Russian bureaucrats] If it isn't my old friend Hart, Schaffner, and Karl Marx!
--
James Cagney
(as C.R. MacNamara)
in
One, Two, Three
(1961)
Year: 1961
Director:
Billy Wilder
Director:
Billy Wilder
C.R. MacNamara:
[Scarlet takes off Otto's cap, revealing his shaggy, disheveled hair] He could use a haircut... and I'd like to give it to him myself with a hammer and sickle.
--
James Cagney
(as C.R. MacNamara)
in
One, Two, Three
(1961)
Year: 1961
Director:
Billy Wilder
Director:
Billy Wilder
C.R. MacNamara:
[to Otto] The only royalty we know are Count Basie, Duke Snider, and Earl Wilson.
--
James Cagney
(as C.R. MacNamara)
in
One, Two, Three
(1961)
Year: 1961
Director:
Billy Wilder
Director:
Billy Wilder
C.R. MacNamara:
[voiceover] Some of the East German police were rude and suspicious. Others were suspicious and rude.
--
James Cagney
(as C.R. MacNamara)
in
One, Two, Three
(1961)
Year: 1961
Director:
Billy Wilder
Director:
Billy Wilder
C.R. MacNamara:
Any world that can produce the Taj Mahal, William Shakespeare, and Stripe toothpaste can't be all bad.
--
James Cagney
(as C.R. MacNamara)
in
One, Two, Three
(1961)