We live in an age of mediocrity. Stars today are not the same stature as Bogie (Humphrey Bogart), James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart (James Stewart).
Lauren Bacall
(on being typecast) If you look at the careers of people like Anthony Quinn, Cagney, even Tommy Lee Jones, they all were cast as villains. There comes a certain point in your life, in your late 30s, early 40s, when suddenly that can change. Maybe a direct...
Robert Davi
[on James Cagney] Jimmy Cagney was the most dynamic man who ever appeared on the screen. He should have won five Oscars, he was so fabulous. He stimulated me to such an extent. I must say that I didn`t have to act very much; I just had to react to him bec...
Virginia Mayo
[on James Cagney] Jimmy Cagney was the most dynamic man who ever appeared on the screen. He should have won five Oscars, he was so fabulous. He stimulated me to such an extent. I must say that I didn`t have to act very much; I just had to react to him bec...
Virginia Mayo
I can play the bad guy, the character with the edge, but I would like him to get the girl without having to put a gun to her head, you know? Look at the careers of Robert Mitchum, Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney started out playing the adversary, too. I ...
Robert Davi
In the `20s, you were a face. And that was enough. In the `30s, you also had to be a voice. And your voice had to match your face, if you can imagine that. `Jimmy Cagney` and Eddie Robinson had voices that were as important as the characters they played. ...
Joan Blondell
[on "Alias" (2001) co-star Carl Lumbly.] We looked him up on IMDb, and we just cracked up - his resumé goes on and on. He was even on "Cagney & Lacey" (1982).
Jennifer Garner
I`ve never seen anything like it before. It`s like the old days of James Cagney, when women would just swoon.(on the affect that Matthew McConaughey, his co-star in We Are Marshall, has on women)
Anthony Mackie
It makes some great movies. I mean, some of my favorite films growing up, have been, forgive me, gangster films. I learned how to walk and talk watching Jimmy Cagney. It`s that, it`s the power, it`s the glamour. The mob just has all that mysticism around ...
Tony Sirico
Today`s movie villains often remind us of James Cagney and `Humphrey Bogart` and that`s as cool as it gets. There`s something comforting if they`re hip and cool. They`re not entirely real, or not entirely threatening, so it might be a little easier to swa...
Paul Anderson
[on James Cagney] Now, you take a great cinema actor, in my opinion, James Cagney. He went very far. He was very theatrical, very intense, and yet always believable. He riveted the audience`s attention. His acting advice was, "Believe what you say -- say ...
Gregory Peck
[on James Cagney] Now, you take a great cinema actor, in my opinion, James Cagney. He went very far. He was very theatrical, very intense, and yet always believable. He riveted the audience`s attention. His acting advice was, "Believe what you say -- say ...
Gregory Peck
[on Jean Harlow] You know, she never wore underclothes and she was walking past the guys on "Public Enemy" one day and James Cagney said, "How do you hold those things up?" and she said, "I ice them." And she was very serious.
Joan Blondell
I suppose I wanted to be an actor from the time I was about 10, maybe even younger than that. Recollections of early movies that I had seen and actors that I admired like James Cagney, Errol Flynn, those kind of romantic action guys. When I saw those acto...
Gene Hackman
[on James Cagney] I learned something from Jimmy Cagney -- he taught me quite a lot about acting. Jimmy taught me some things about being honest and not overdoing it. He even affected my work with Brando a little bit. I mean, "Don`t show it, just do it."
Elia Kazan
[on James Cagney] I learned something from Jimmy Cagney -- he taught me quite a lot about acting. Jimmy taught me some things about being honest and not overdoing it. He even affected my work with Brando a little bit. I mean, "Don`t show it, just do it."
Elia Kazan
[talking about how smoking used to be depicted in films] In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.
Loni Anderson
A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.
Bob Hope
