Quotes from James Cagney movies and TV shows

Rocky Sullivan: I'll take the room. What's the tariff?
Laury Ferguson: Five dollars a week.
Rocky Sullivan: Sold.
Laury Ferguson: In advance.
Rocky Sullivan: Oh. Alright. Write me a receipt.
Laury Ferguson: You can trust me.

Rocky Sullivan: 'Morning, gentlemen. Nice day for a murder.

Soapy: Hey! Call a fair game or I'll slap you right in the kisser.
Rocky Sullivan: You'll slap me? You slap me in a dream, you better wake up and apologize.

James Frazier: Well, well, Rocky! Say, this is a surprise.
Rocky Sullivan: Whadda ya hear! Whadda ya say.

Lt. J.g. Douglas A. Roberts: Captain, you told me.
The Captain: Never mind what I told you. I'm telling you!.

Tom Powers: Hiding behind Ma's skirts, like always.
Mike Powers: Better than hiding behind a machine gun.

Tom Powers: How goes it, babe? Going south?
Gwen Allen: Yes. But, I'm not accustomed with riding with... eh... strangers.
Tom Powers: We're not going to be strangers.

Tom Powers: Hey, Stupe, that's got gears. It ain't no Ford.

Putty Nose: Are you alone?
Tom Powers: I'm always alone when I'm with Matt.

Tom Powers: That sister of yours ain't getting any bargain in Mike.

Eddie Bartlett: One thing, Lloyd. They tell me your boss is building a case against our old friend, George.
Lloyd Hart: The case is already built, Eddie.
Eddie Bartlett: Yeah, well, you remember what he said would happen if you ever told what you knew about him?
Lloyd Hart: I remember.
Eddie Bartlett: So does he.

Biff Grimes: Gosh, you look wonderful.
Virginia Brush: Oh, Biff, but you...? Is that another black eye or the same one?

Amy Lind: I learned an awful lot while I was away.
Biff Grimes: You know, Amy. There's an awful lot of good in people if you just look for it. Trouble is, we don't look for it.
Amy Lind: We just go through life saying, I'm all right and the other fellows all wrong.

Amy Lind: You're not a very easy person to get to know, Mr. Grimes.
Biff Grimes: Well, that's the kind of a hairpin I am.

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.

Verna Jarrett: I'd look good in a mink coat, honey.
Cody Jarrett: You'd look good in a shower curtain.

Cody Jarrett: To me, you're a face and a number, and let's keep it that way.

Cody Jarrett: A copper, a copper, how do you like that boys? A copper and his name is Fallon. And we went for it, I went for it. Treated him like a kid brother. And I was gonna split fifty-fifty with a copper.

Cody Jarrett: Made it, Ma! Top of the world.

Cody Jarrett: I told you to keep away from that radio. If that battery is dead it'll have company.