Jimmy Cagney Quotes & Sayings

If you aren't happy for what you already have then what makes you think you will be happy with more. — Maddy Malhotra

I'm a great believer in conversational rhythm. I think in terms of rhythmic dialogue. It's so easy, you can talk naturally. It's like peas rolling off a knife. Take the great screen actors and actresses, Bette Davis, Eddie Robinson, Jimmy Cagney, Spencer Tracy. They all talk in rhythm. And rhythm and movement are the life of the screen. — Lorenz Hart

I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie. — Jimmy Fallon

It seems whenever we get too high hat and too sophisticated for flag-waving some thug nation comes along and decides we're a pushover all ready to be blackjacked. And it isn't long before we're looking up mighty anxiously to be sure the flag is still waving over us. Jimmy Cagney as George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy — George M. Cohan

The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles. — Jack Huston

Love is very powerful, but it has limits and it's a costly mistake to spread it too thin. — Tom Robbins

It's a funny thing that people are always ready to admit it if they've no talent for drawing or music, whereas everyone imagines that they themselves are capable of true love, which is a talent like any other, only far more rare. — Nancy Mitford

You have the capacity to do all the work you can. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years. — John Osborne

Movies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match. — Clint Eastwood

I'm told that Sherlock Holmes never said, "Elementary, my dear Watson" (at least in the Arthur Conan Doyle books) Jimmy Cagney never said, "You dirty rat"; and Humphrey Bogart never said, "Play it again, Sam." But they might as well have, because these apocrypha have firmly insinuated themselves into popular culture. — Carl Sagan

My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney. — Malcolm McDowell

The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You can talk about "social justice" all you want. But what death taxes boil down to is letting politicians take money from widows and orphans to pay for goodies that they will hand out to others, in order to buy votes to get reelected. That is not social justice or any other kind of justice. — Thomas Sowell

Don't it make my brown eyes blue? — Crystal Gayle