Virginia Brush: [they are at the Statue of Liberty and they watch a woman slap a man for trying to kiss her]
Virginia Brush: And she was right too.
Biff Grimes: Well, if a man can't get liberties here, where can he?


--James Cagney (as Biff Grimes) in The Strawberry Blonde

Holiday Carleton: He's too smart for you!
Ralph Cotter: Oh no, he stopped being smart when he took my money.


--James Cagney (as ) in Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

Bert Harris: If I had the wings of an angel honey, over these prison walls I would fly!


--James Cagney (as Bert Harris) in Blonde Crazy

Bert Harris: Mmm, that dirty, double-crossin' rat!


--James Cagney (as Bert Harris) in Blonde Crazy

Biff Grimes: I'm gonna have a smoke.
Amy Lind: May I have one too, please?
Biff Grimes: Oh, sure. Hey! Don't tell me you smoke!
Amy Lind: Only when I'm bored.
Biff Grimes: Well, your mother's a bloomer girl, you're a nicotine fiend, are there any more at home like you?
Amy Lind: I have an aunt who's an actress.
Biff Grimes: Well, that completes the picture. I've been around, they can say an awful lot of things about Biff Grimes, but not that he ever gave a cigarette to a girl.


--James Cagney (as Biff Grimes) in The Strawberry Blonde

C.R. MacNamara: [Greeting the three Russian bureaucrats] If it isn't my old friend Hart, Schaffner, and Karl Marx!


--James Cagney (as C.R. MacNamara) in One, Two, Three

C.R. MacNamara: [Scarlet takes off Otto's cap, revealing his shaggy, disheveled hair] He could use a haircut... and I'd like to give it to him myself with a hammer and sickle.


--James Cagney (as C.R. MacNamara) in One, Two, Three

C.R. MacNamara: [to Otto] The only royalty we know are Count Basie, Duke Snider, and Earl Wilson.


--James Cagney (as C.R. MacNamara) in One, Two, Three

C.R. MacNamara: [voiceover] Some of the East German police were rude and suspicious. Others were suspicious and rude.


--James Cagney (as C.R. MacNamara) in One, Two, Three

C.R. MacNamara: Any world that can produce the Taj Mahal, William Shakespeare, and Stripe toothpaste can't be all bad.


--James Cagney (as C.R. MacNamara) in One, Two, Three