"There's not much to say about acting but……" — James Cagney
"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."
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30 Quotes by James Cagney
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Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was…
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I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it.…
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My childhood was surrounded by trouble, illness, and my dad's alcoholism, but as I said, we just didn't have the…
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I`m sick of carrying guns and beating up women.
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I never said, 'MMMmmm, you dirty rat!
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I never had the slightest difficulty with a fellow actor. Not until One, Two, Three. In that picture, Horst Buchholz…
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You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today.…
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You don't psych yourself up for these things, you do them... I'm acting for the audience, not for myself, and…
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Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance man. Those few words tell as much about me…
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Find your mark, look the other fellow in the eye, and tell the truth.
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You dirty, double-crossing rat.
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Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.
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