Katherine Ryan Quotes

I am an undisputed gangster. To me, that means playing by my own rules.

Katherine Ryan

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• Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • People
  • Hand
  • Focus

• I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Music
  • Society

• I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Feelings

• Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Ambition

• Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • God
  • You
  • Thank God

• It's funny, because I've never thought of myself as a Hispanic actor, like in 'American Gangster,' I'm playing an Italian. I've always been fortunate enough to have been allowed to play all these diverse roles.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • American
  • Funny
  • Myself

• 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
  • Heart
  • America
  • Black

• I work with Sally and I can see Sally doing that. She is very aggressive. Very fun loving and charming... and pushy in a very competitive way and a very healthy way and a very good actress.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Good
  • Work
  • She

• In my world, of course, it don't matter. You could be a gangster with a dress, you could be a gangster with baggy pants.

  

  Young Thug
  • World
  • Dress
  • Gangster

• Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience will be disappointed if there's not a tragic ending.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Tragedy
  • Greek
  • Ending

• I look at old performance videos now, and it's really funny - I thought I was such a gangster!

  

  Becky G
  • Funny
  • Thought
  • Performance

• It's funny, my kids and I live together, and I have a lot of actor friends. So my kids think everyone is on television every now and again, since everyone they know pops up here, but there's a whole rap of things they won't watch until they're 16 or 17.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Up
  • Live
  • Kids

• A society organized and run on the basis of complete nonviolence would be the purest anarchy… That State is perfect and non-violent where the people are governed the least.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Society
  • Perfect

• Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain - All, all the stretch of these great green states - And make America again!

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Great
  • America

• The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • Reality

• If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • Music

• I'm the number-one fan of gangster movies.

  

  David Chase
  • Gangster

• You cannot think when you're ecstatic.

  

  Antony Garrett Lisi

• In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!

  

  Bernadette Peters
  • Career
  • Gay

• Harlem was a development, a developer's dream and a place where residents had more space and more amenities than ever before. The subway reached 145th street about 1904, and it seemed that Harlem's destiny was to become largely a preserve of successful ethnics relocating and arriving. Then, overnight, the bust took place.

  

  David Levering Lewis
  • Dream
  • Space
  • Destiny

• Our films tremendously influence people. But at the same time, no one goes to the cinema to listen to lectures, so if you have an interesting story, and if you can showcase it as a film, and its messages are good, then it's like an icing on the cake: it shall be a superhit. And if I get those kind of films, I'll definitely want to work on it.

  

  Juhi Chawla
  • Film
  • Influence
  • Messages

• My guilty pleasure is 'Britain's Next Top Model'.

  

  April Pearson
  • Model
  • Guilty

• Men and women can be friends, and it can just be friendly.

  

  Jonathan Van Ness
  • Men
  • Women
  • Friends

• I am an undisputed gangster. To me, that means playing by my own rules.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • Gangster