You Dirty, Double-crossing Rat.

New Orleans Is 5 Feet Below Sea Level, Which Means That Holes Dug In The Ground Immediately Fill With Water. Coffins Were Punctured And Sunk With Weights, Which Didn't Stop Them From Floating Up Out Of The Cemeteries And Down The Streets Of The French Quarter On Stormy Nights. The Solution Was To Bury People Above Ground, In What Are Called Vaults.

My Childhood Was Surrounded By Trouble, Illness, And My Dad's Alcoholism, But As I Said, We Just Didn't Have The Time To Be Impressed By All Those Misfortunes. I Have An Idea That The Irish Possess A Built-in Don't-give-a-damn That Helps Them Through All The Stress.

I`m Sick Of Carrying Guns And Beating Up Women.

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.

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.