Otto:
You! I should take that "wedding present" and break it over your head!
C.R. MacNamara: That's gratitude after all the trouble I went through to get you out of jail!
Otto: You got me into jail!
C.R. MacNamara: So we're even!
--James Cagney (as C.R. MacNamara) in One, Two, Three
C.R. MacNamara: That's gratitude after all the trouble I went through to get you out of jail!
Otto: You got me into jail!
C.R. MacNamara: So we're even!
--James Cagney (as C.R. MacNamara) in One, Two, Three
Rossetti:
I've got Larry Toms waiting in your office to hear your story. Come on.
Robert Law: We haven't got any stories.
J. Carlyle 'J.C.' Benson: Tell him one anyway.
Robert Law: Okay. Once there was a fairy princess who lived in a broken down castle, on a broken down river, with a broken down aunt. In fact, she was a broken down princess.
--James Cagney (as ) in Boy Meets Girl
Robert Law: We haven't got any stories.
J. Carlyle 'J.C.' Benson: Tell him one anyway.
Robert Law: Okay. Once there was a fairy princess who lived in a broken down castle, on a broken down river, with a broken down aunt. In fact, she was a broken down princess.
--James Cagney (as ) in Boy Meets Girl
Joan Winfield:
[pushes the dresser against the door to keep Steve out, he climbs in the window behind her, singsong] I'd like to see I'd like to see you taaaaaake me!
Steve Collins: [mocking singsong voice] Anything to oblige, anything to oblige, anything to oblige a laaaaady!
--James Cagney (as Steve Collins) in The Bride Came C.O.D.
Steve Collins: [mocking singsong voice] Anything to oblige, anything to oblige, anything to oblige a laaaaady!
--James Cagney (as Steve Collins) in The Bride Came C.O.D.
Joan Winfield:
[singsong] I'm not going anywhere with you!
Steve Collins: Oh yes you are!
Joan Winfield: No I'm not I'm not I'm nooooot.
Steve Collins: Then Stevie will just have to come in and taaaake you!
--James Cagney (as Steve Collins) in The Bride Came C.O.D.
Steve Collins: Oh yes you are!
Joan Winfield: No I'm not I'm not I'm nooooot.
Steve Collins: Then Stevie will just have to come in and taaaake you!
--James Cagney (as Steve Collins) in The Bride Came C.O.D.
Myra Gale:
[preparing to pour a drink for Dan] How much?
Dan Quigley: Oh, about two ounces,one for each kidney.
Myra Gale: [handing him the drink] Here. Oh, uh, chaser?
Dan Quigley: Always have been.
[they laugh]
Dan Quigley: Funny fella.
--James Cagney (as ) in Lady Killer
Dan Quigley: Oh, about two ounces,one for each kidney.
Myra Gale: [handing him the drink] Here. Oh, uh, chaser?
Dan Quigley: Always have been.
[they laugh]
Dan Quigley: Funny fella.
--James Cagney (as ) in Lady Killer
Wally Davis:
A house doesn't have to fall on me.
Nick Butler: It might help.
--James Cagney (as Nick 'Nicky' Butler) in Torrid Zone
Nick Butler: It might help.
--James Cagney (as Nick 'Nicky' Butler) in Torrid Zone
Wally Davis:
I smell a drink! I smell two drinks!
Nick Butler: You smell!
--James Cagney (as Nick 'Nicky' Butler) in Torrid Zone
Nick Butler: You smell!
--James Cagney (as Nick 'Nicky' Butler) in Torrid Zone
Mrs. Susan 'Susie' Seabrook:
But don't you think he'd be good for Happy? He's an outdoor man.
Robert Law: So's the guy who collects my garbage.
--James Cagney (as ) in Boy Meets Girl
Robert Law: So's the guy who collects my garbage.
--James Cagney (as ) in Boy Meets Girl
Mrs. Susan 'Susie' Seabrook:
Don't make fun of me.
Robert Law: Fun? Well, I've never been so touched in all my life. Susie, I feel purified.
Robert Law: Susie, can we be Godfathers?
Mrs. Susan 'Susie' Seabrook: Do you mean it?
Robert Law: I mean it. Just you say "yes", and see how quick I'll get Hellinger to print: "Benson and Law Godfathering In June".
--James Cagney (as ) in Boy Meets Girl
Robert Law: Fun? Well, I've never been so touched in all my life. Susie, I feel purified.
Robert Law: Susie, can we be Godfathers?
Mrs. Susan 'Susie' Seabrook: Do you mean it?
Robert Law: I mean it. Just you say "yes", and see how quick I'll get Hellinger to print: "Benson and Law Godfathering In June".
--James Cagney (as ) in Boy Meets Girl
Lloyd Hart:
[the men are taking cover in a bombed-out farmhouse, shooting at German soldiers somewhere off-screen] When is this "armistice" they've been talking about for the past four days?
Eddie Bartlett: That's just another rumor. This brawl's gonna' go on forever.
Lloyd Hart: If I ever get back, I'm gonna' have a swell law office in the Woolworth Building. Have it all picked out, on the 28th floor. Can see the whole city: the Bay, Brooklyn...
Eddie Bartlett: Whaddya' wanna' look at Brooklyn for?
--James Cagney (as Eddie Bartlett) in The Roaring Twenties
Eddie Bartlett: That's just another rumor. This brawl's gonna' go on forever.
Lloyd Hart: If I ever get back, I'm gonna' have a swell law office in the Woolworth Building. Have it all picked out, on the 28th floor. Can see the whole city: the Bay, Brooklyn...
Eddie Bartlett: Whaddya' wanna' look at Brooklyn for?
--James Cagney (as Eddie Bartlett) in The Roaring Twenties
