Charles Gibson: I don't want to send you.
Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey: I've been working hard. I need the change.
Charles Gibson: You won't come back.
Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey: [Gibson drops his eyes] I've just discovered something about you.
Charles Gibson: What?
Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey: You're a worrier.


--James Cagney (as Robert Emmett 'Bob' Sharkey) in 13 Rue Madeleine

Joe 'Jinx' Raynor: He ain't to be trusted.
Ralph Cotter: Why should *he* be different?


--James Cagney (as ) in Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

William R. Darrow Jr.: Who are you? What are you doing here?
Lon Chaney: I'm from the collection agency. I've come to collect my wife.


--James Cagney (as ) in Man of a Thousand Faces

Roy Parker: You wouldn't kill me in cold blood, would ya?
Cody Jarrett: No, I'll let ya warm up a little.


--James Cagney (as Cody Jarrett) in White Heat

Charlie Bowers: Is there, is there anything I can do?
Chester Kent: Yeah. See that window over there?
Charlie Bowers: Yeah.
Chester Kent: Take a running jump and I think you can make it.


--James Cagney (as Chester Kent) in Footlight Parade

Mitch McKane: What's the hurry? Surprised to see me?
Harry Delano: Why Mitch, you old son of a gun. How are ya? It makes it seem like old times to see you around here. Glad to see ya.
Mitch McKane: Yeah, I'll bet you are.
Harry Delano: Uh, Buck said you wanna see me about something?
Mitch McKane: Yeah.
Harry Delano: Well it it's about Buck's joint, I just fixed up the old lady.
Mitch McKane: I ain't worried about the joint, you dirty double-crossing little rat.
Harry Delano: Why, what's the matter?
Mitch McKane: You know what's the matter. Fred's been peddling my hooch and you're in with them. And you brought in with money that you got from me!
Harry Delano: Oh, it's a lie. I ain't had nothing to do with Freddy.
Mitch McKane: No? Well, I got it straight, and I'm putting the finger on you now.
Harry Delano: No, Mitch. I'm honest, I didn't.
Mitch McKane: Something's gonna happen to you.
Harry Delano: No, no, Mitch.
Mitch McKane: Nobody's gonna peddle hooch around this part but me.
Harry Delano: No, but I'm warning you. I got a gun too.
Mitch McKane: Yeah, but you dirty little...
Harry Delano: Please don't, I'm asking you. Please don't, I'm telling you now. I'm asking you...


--James Cagney (as ) in Sinners' Holiday

Verity Wade: It's these folks. They're all so wonderful.
Hank Martin: Well, all folks is wonderful. You just have to know the right place to kick 'em in.
Verity Wade: What?
Hank Martin: Sure. It's like learnin' to play a musical instrument by ear. All you gotta know is what place to push to get what note. Then pretty soon, everybody's dancin'...to your tune.


--James Cagney (as Hank Martin) in A Lion Is in the Streets

Mac Keefer: Where's Frazier?
Rocky Sullivan: Where's that hundred grand?
Mac Keefer: You think we're gonna pay off huh?
Rocky Sullivan: Certainly. If I don't get that dough in three minutes, Frazier's gonna be splashed all over the best hideout in town.


--James Cagney (as Rocky Sullivan) in Angels with Dirty Faces

Panama Smith: I'm sick of watching you try to put out that torch you carry for her with a lot of cheap hooch. Who does the kid look like?
Eddie Bartlett: Like her.
Panama Smith: And they got a nice house.
Eddie Bartlett: Yeah, it's a nice house if you like that kind of a house, but for me, uh, I'll take a hotel anytime. You know that.
Panama Smith: Me too. Ain't it funny how our tastes have always run the same? Ever since the first time we met. I can just picture you living in the suburbs, working in a garden, raising flowers and kids. Wouldn't that be a laugh.
Eddie Bartlett: Yeah, wouldn't I look cute?


--James Cagney (as Eddie Bartlett) in The Roaring Twenties

Panama Smith: Things have been pretty tough, haven't they?
Eddie Bartlett: They could be tougher. A guy in the cell with me was talkin' about bumpin' himself off. Until I get around to that, I'm doin' all right.


--James Cagney (as Eddie Bartlett) in The Roaring Twenties