Gangsters Quotes - Page 6

• You know the slow-motion walking shot in "Reservoir Dogs"? That was in the Tommy Udo tradition. That strut, that way of wearing your suit, is what I think gangster chic is.

  Tom Folsom

  Dog, Thinking, Way

  "The Untouchable: Author Tom Folsom on Joey Gallo". Interview with Jean Scheidnes, wwd.com. May 28, 2009.

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• My daddy was a carpenter that worked with the Jones boys, who are the most notorious in America. The black gangsters, you know, they were no joke. And he was their master carpenter. He used to build their homes, and all I saw when I was 11 years old were dead bodies and tommy guns and stogies, and backrooms, you know, Drexel Wine and Liquor, with the big piles of money underneath.

  Quincy Jones

  Wine, Home, Gun

  "Quincy Jones Recalls "Freaking Out" at Michael Jackson's Death and His Private Nickname for the Star". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2015.

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• I reread Mesrine's book every year because the way the story is told is fascinating. Today, we don't have gangsters like Mesrine - he had humor.

  Thomas Langmann

  Book, Years, Stories

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• The Milkoviches are a much more extreme, much darker version of what the Gallaghers could be. The Gallaghers don't have a violent, sexually abusive, bigoted gangster for a father.

  Noel Fisher

  Father, Violent, Gallagher

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• Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad “Joey”, Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his bloody revolution against the Mafia.

  Tom Folsom

  Crazy, Mafia, Village

  "Gangster Chic: Joey Gallo" by Tom Folsom, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2009.

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• Never will we be able to understand our times if we naively 'think' of this system of self Government as the work of a few gangsters or the creation of a pack of criminals we call a political party. The appeal of Socialism, Fascism and communism was principally negative; they were protests against a live and let live anything goes liberalism, a spineless indifference to causes, a failure to recognize that nothing was evil enough to hate, and nothing was good enough to die for.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Hate, Party, Thinking

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• Of course, political leaders are much more ambitious than gangsters. The latter are content to take your money, whereas the former, besides taking far more of your money, have the effrontery to violate your just rights whenever their convenience dictates.

  Robert Higgs

  Rights, Leader, Political

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• I've played some gangster roles, but that's obviously not me. When you're an Italian-American New York actor, it's just an easy way to get cast.

  Michael Imperioli

  New York, Italian, Roles

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• Look, you see those groups talkin' about negativity and anger, and they'd do that for two albums, and then you'd see them change up. I knew they couldn't do a Kurt Cobain on their whole career. You can't stay like that all the time. It's like when Hammer tried to go gangster. You can't be something that you're not.

  Prince

  Change, Careers, Two

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• I think I could totally be a gangster, but I could never be the kind of gangster that carries things out myself. I would have to be the kingpin that has my minions go and do the dirty bidding. I think I'd be pretty good at giving orders.

  Elena Satine

  Dirty, Thinking, Order

  "Talking About Gangsters with Elena Satine". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. June 17, 2013.

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• When I was 12 I made some little films with my friends. I tried to make gangster films, like Fantomas, but I remember being very disappointed with them. They weren't frightening at all. I'm sure they'd be very funny now.

  Alain Resnais

  Littles, Remember, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't only like rap music. There's everything from R&B to crazy gangster rap, hip hop... everything! But it all blends together nicely. It's like a magical music rainbow.

  Kreayshawn

  Crazy, Rap, Rainbow

  "Hear the Latest from Kreayshawn, a Tattooed, Potty-Mouthed Hip-Hop Artist With a Soft Spot for the Spice Girls" by Caitlin Brody, www.glamour.com. September 17, 2012.

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• In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Careers, Directors, Labels

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• I found Celebrity Gangster intense, dramatic, a real page turner.

  Irwin Winkler

  Real, Pages, Dramatic

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• I mean people are sexist and racist and homophobic and violent. But I don't think of the rappers as being any more sexist or racist or homophobic than their parents. Certainly less, in all those cases, less homophobic or racist or sexist, and then less gangster than our government. It's stuff that people normally don't speak on, subjects they don't speak on, and ideas they kind of keep to themselves.

  Russell Simmons

  Mean, Thinking, Rapper

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I think one of the most destructive things in terms of American security has been for all of our leaders, without exception in both parties, to identify Osama bin Laden as a gangster or as a madman, as an apocalyptic character who's out to destroy our civilization.

  Michael Scheuer

  Party, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If being a gangster were a prerequisite to being a musician, there'd be a lot less cello music, for example.

  Greg Giraldo

  Musician, Example, Prerequisites

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• How can I be a gangster, if I worked for the KGB? It is absolutely ridiculous.

  Vladimir Putin

  Kgb, Ridiculous, Ifs

  "Interview to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• I was working with D'Mile - he's amazing! And I don't know, it was like that guitar riff was so crazy to me, and so I think I was frustrated about something that happened earlier and I feel like I'm just a good guy, I don't cut people off, I don't really call people out when they do stuff that they should be called out on, and I'm just always the one being the bigger person. So, that day "Gangster" just came out. That's just how I feel in that day to day life.

  PJ Harvey

  Crazy, Cutting, Thinking

  "Singer/Songwriter PJ Shares Her Soundtrack For The Come Up". Interview with Todd Davis, September 9, 2016.

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• Russia, despite its heavy flirtation with capitalism and some quite unsavory oligarchs, is still building its foreign policy on the Soviet ideals of internationalism, solidarity and logic. And even domestically, President [Vladin]Putin is slowly, step-by-step, restoring many important Soviet achievements that were torpedoed by a nitwit, and one gangster - [Mikhail] Gorbachev and [Boris] Yeltsin.

  Andre Vltchek

  Russia, Achievement, President

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Hip-hop was a big part of my life growing up, especially West Coast gangster rap. The reason I was able to listen to it so freely was that my mom couldn't hear any of it, so we would be driving along just blaring Too $hort's horrible misogynistic stuff, and my mom would just turn to us and say, "This is great. I can feel the bass. It sounds so nice." And we're like, "Yeah, mom. We can feel the bass, too."

  Moshe Kasher

  Mom, Growing Up, Nice

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

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• My father ran London Films. He made films like 'The Red Shoes,' 'The Third Man.' And he had had a long career in the film business, which was bifurcated with a career in intelligence. He had to deal with gangsters, and sometimes he would take me with him. Also, I went to school with their children.

  Mark Helprin

  Children, Father, School

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• Being in Birmingham, I thought I was going to be a gangster or a bag-runner or a thief. I heard music and I was determined to get out of there.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Thieves, Bags, Determined

  Interview with David Furnish, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 2004.

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• In all honesty a gangster picture was the easiest kind of film for me to get made.

  William Monahan

  Honesty, Kind, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• I walked out on American Gangster: this evil piece of dreck. Defenders of this junk say that these movies give Black actors jobs. So did "Birth of a Nation."

  Ishmael Reed

  Jobs, Evil, Giving

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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