James Cagney
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James Francis Cagney, Jr. (July 17, 1899 – March 30, 1986) was an American film actor who won acclaim for a wide variety of roles and won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1942 for his role in Yankee Doodle Dandy.
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- I never actually said "Ooh, you dirty rat."
- When receiving his AFI Lifetime Achievement Award in 1974; misattribution noted in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 11.
- You don't psych yourself up for these things, you do them... I'm acting for the audience, not for myself, and I do it as directly as I can.
- Cagney by Cagney, his autobiography (1976)
