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James Cagney Quotes: Find your mark, look the other fellow in the eye, and tell the truth.
         

Find your mark, look the other fellow in the eye, and tell the truth.


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You dirty, double-crossing rat.

You dirty, double-crossing rat.



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.

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.

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.



Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.

Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.



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

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.

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.

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.

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.



The Postman Always RingsTwice.

The Postman Always RingsTwice.



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.

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.





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The shrewd may gain temporarily, but the wise gain permanently.

The shrewd may gain temporarily, but the wise gain permanently.



S:uch is Heaven on Earth, in all landA:s the sun brightens to the moon N:ails the Creation in a palm of a hand, D:ancing IT makes the desert bloom.

S:uch is Heaven on Earth, in all landA:s the sun brightens to the moon N:ails the Creation in a palm of a hand, D:ancing IT makes the desert bloom.



If you fight for yourself, you have awakened your conscience, but if you fight for people you will awaken a nation.

If you fight for yourself, you have awakened your conscience, but if you fight for people you will awaken a nation.



Aviation in air, in water and in spirit. Its laws are different in all three cases. The spirit soars the more it weighs and sinks into itself. The heavier the spirit, the higher and farther it flies.

Aviation in air, in water and in spirit. Its laws are different in all three cases. The spirit soars the more it weighs and sinks into itself. The heavier the spirit, the higher and farther it flies.



I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own.

I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own.



I have a son in Barcelona whom I am madly in love with.

I have a son in Barcelona whom I am madly in love with.



As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.

As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.



Conventional wisdom is so scary because what if everybody's wrong?

Conventional wisdom is so scary because what if everybody's wrong?



It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing.

It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing.



In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasnt like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.

In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasnt like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.




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