Cagney Quotes
On James Cagney, classic cinema, and the movie palaces that showed him.
Cagney quotes here mix childhood nostalgia, like watching a double bill on an old TV, with sharper film criticism about how Cagney handled a love scene. Fans of that era will also enjoy our Bogart page.
I was raised by my aunt and we bonded over the eight-o-clock movie on TV. We'd watch everything from James Cagney in 'White Heat' to Lon Chaney in 'The Wolf Man' and every Bogart movie.
Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have things?
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They were like little palaces: all rococo or art deco. You'd walk in off those hot streets into a nice, air-cooled theater, and you'd spend all day watching Cagney or Jimmy Stewart. It cost all of 17 cents.
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I want people to say at the end of my day, you know, like I used to say about Sidney Poitier and James Cagney and Joan Crawford and Red Skelton and those guys and Bill Cosby. They did quality and...
