"Though I soon became typecast in Hollywood as a gangster and hoodlum, I was originally a dancer, an Irish hoofer, trained in vaudeville tap dance. I always leapt at the opportunity to dance in films later on."

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James Cagney

#Dance Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Hollywood Quotes

“All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing.”

Source : Robert Olen Butler (2007). “From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction”, p.139, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I gave the prescribed Metropolitan Police "first greeting". "Oi!" I said "What do you think you're doing?”
“It is to Titian we must turn our eyes to find excellence with regard to color, and light and shade, in the highest degree. He was both the first and the greatest master of this art. By a few strokes he knew how to mark the general image and character of whatever object he attempted...”
“I have a solo deal with Columbia Records. So it's about, do I want to release an album, when can we do it, what kind of album should it be, how should it be released and marketed and what's the right timing? Do I have time to do it? It's all about questions.”
“If you really want a career in professional skateboarding,you really got to stop pushing mongo.”
“I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.”
“To boldly grow where no one has groan before.”
“The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.”

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