Origine: Citato in Peter Bogdanovich, Chi c'è in quel film? Ritratti e conversazioni con le stelle di Hollywood, traduzione di Roberto Buffagni, Fandango Libri, 2008.
James Cagney Frasi e Citazioni
James Cagney: Frasi in inglese
“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.
Cagney by Cagney, his autobiography (1976)