Gangsters Quotes - Page 3

• You had to grow up sometime. The fellows who grew early, they were in jeopardy. They became the cops and the crooks, and the crooks became the gangsters. The crooks became the Al Capones.

  Jack Kirby

  Growing Up, Als, Crooks

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies.

  Cesar Romero

  Play, Gone, May

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• You can fail in films because you don't have the talent, or you have too much humility, or you lack ferociousness. I'm a gangster. If I want something, I'll grab it.

  John Cassavetes

  Humility, Want Something, Too Much

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• Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

  Abel Ferrara

  Heart, Italian, Yuppies

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.

  Brion James

  Cowboy, Play, California

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• Especially in gangster films, with the gangster's moll - she would always be more or less of an object. And I'm not convinced of this theory. Because I think even gangsters' women have brains. They think and even, as we say, have balls.

  Sergio Leone

  Thinking, Brain, Balls

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• My strangest media moment a photo session they all had dressed up like 50 gangsters. That was pretty cool. We have to get some more of those kind of photos sometimes.

  Kerry King

  Media, Kind, Sometimes

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• I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.

  Stanley Tucci

  Taken, Roles, Has Beens

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• How many gangsters you know, from Al Capone up to John Gotti, been gay?

  Method Man

  Gay, Als, Capone

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• It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.

  Callum Keith Rennie

  Actors, Scottish, Scots

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• We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

  Robert Wyatt

  Money, Taken, Records

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• I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Play, Guy, Drug

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• I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.

  David Arquette

  Thinking, Mexican, Causes

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.

  Quincy Jones

  Brother, Boys, Chicago

  "Grammy Legend Award". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 28, 2000.

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• I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.

  Edward G. Robinson

  Book, Reading, East

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• We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.

  Quincy Jones

  Block, Heart, Ghetto

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• I know nothing of what it is to be a gangster.

  Michael K. Williams

  Knows

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• I'm not a gangster, I'm not a thug.. I'm just me and if I feel like someone is trying to hurt me.. yeah I'm gonna hurt 'em.. if you come and you ain't coming right I'm gonna blow your head off.

  Curtis Jackson

  Hurt, Blow, Thug

  Source: www.daveyd.com

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• You gotta be comfortable in your own skin, man. I am, yaknow. Like I said, I am what I am, b. I'm not a gangster, namean. I ain't no killer. Have I used a gun before? Yeah but, just because you use a gun, don't mean you a killer or a gangster. It means you a man.

  Sean Price

  Mean, Gun, Men

  Source: uproxx.com

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• Since the gangsters are glamorized, by extension the women they sleep with are also necessarily glamorous.

  Sonia Faleiro

  Sleep, Glamorous, Extensions

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• What kind of role do you play after someone like Stringer, you know what I mean? You play another gangster. What’s the point of that? I’ve played the gangster. I try to keep it really varied; it just makes for more of a fun and interesting career.

  Idris Elba

  Fun, Mean, Play

  "Idris Elba, No Stringers Attached". Interview with Amy Chozick, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2014.

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• I think it's kinda funny that all these rappers that used to be gangsters and thugs are telling us not to download their music from the internet, because that's stealing. Wow talk about ironic.

  Daniel Tosh

  Thug, Thinking, Rapper

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• The ethical practices of lawyers are probably no worse than those of other professions. Lawyers bring some of the trouble on by claiming in a sanctimonious way that they are interested only in justice, not power or wealth. They also suffer guilt by association. Their clients are often people in trouble. Saints need no lawyers: gangsters do.

  Lawrence M. Friedman

  Practice, Justice, People

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• Night gangsters! For this crime I will exact a thousand fold revenge!

  Adolf Hitler

  Revenge, Military, Night

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• The whole world is conscious. It's just that we become conscious at times, and you become conscious when you lose a parent, or just a loved one, period - a wife, a brother, you know. You wake up and say, "Man, it's real. I don't need this pimp gangster stuff anymore, I need something with a little more substance." And there is marketing for that.

  KRS-One

  Brother, Real, Men

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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