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