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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Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.
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The 1920s were essentially the time when I learned the business of performing. It was my initiation into the world of show business.
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Look, Ma Top of the world.
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If the American family has seemed in danger of disintegration, I believe and hope it will survive, and I think America will return to old values.
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