Gangsters Quotes

• If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight.

  

  Betty Carter
  • Music
  • Bird
  • Jazz

• Never piss off a gangster.

  

  Chael Sonnen
  • Gangsters

• The problem with prime beef is that there are so many people out there selling offal. So you don't know when you're going eat a shitty gangster movie. Because everybody knows there's good stuff to be involved in.

  

  Tom Hardy
  • People
  • Problem
  • Selling

• My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Past
  • Accepted
  • Host

• I feel like your city - with hip hop in particular, because we're always beating our chest and shouting where we're from - your city is just as influential as your parents. Even the grimy, hardcore gangster rap from New York - KRS-One and Wu Tang, the stuff acknowledges it.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Parent
  • Acknowledge
  • Influential

• As a conscious rap artist, you should not want to be in a gangster market. You should be trying to establish your own market, create a place where you can be yourself and make some money and feed your family.

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • Trying
  • Artist
  • Rap

• 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 Black Sabbath
  • Determined
  • Bags
  • Birmingham

• 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
  • Paradise

• The FBI was formed because the gangsters were better armed, better financed.

  

  Michael Horse
  • FBI
  • Gangsters

• I've been acting a long time, and I can play a Cockney gangster or a womanizer in my sleep or standing on my head. But what I try to do is I try to find characters that are as far away from me as I possibly can and then make them real. A French Nazi is about as far away from me as I can possibly get without actually going to Mars or something.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Real
  • Character
  • Sleep

• The United States has entered the ranks of the failed states. One of the most remarkable manifestations of a failed state is that the criminals are all inside the government operating against the people, whereas in a normal state, the criminals are on the outside of the government, operating against it. So, we now have every manifestation of being a failed state, with the government in the hands of a few Wall Street gangsters.

  

  Paul Craig Roberts
  • Government
  • United States
  • Criminals

• You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired and hero-worshipped but there is always present underlying desire to see them destroyed at the peak of their glory.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Art
  • Desire
  • Artist

• I felt my country should do more for its children. Its children are not born gangsters. In fact, they have in them the potential to be heroes because most of the kids who are in these gangs are leaders, very charismatic and good organizers.

  

  Azim Khamisa
  • Children
  • Potential
  • Gangsters

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

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Ridiculous
  • Gangsters
  • KGB

• I grew up in the projects with four older brothers. And there were tough, macho gangsters, drug dealers, killers, and thugs all in my neighborhood. And they were afraid of my mother. So, yeah, I know some strong women.

  

  Michael Che
  • Mother
  • Brother
  • Neighborhood

• 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
  • Said
  • Sensitive

• Being from Texas, I didn't know anything about gangsters and people like that, I had no fear of people.

  

  Carl Gardner
  • Fear
  • Gangsters

• I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor.

  

  Ryan Gosling
  • Kids
  • Age
  • Film

• I've done, like, 45 movies, played 40 gangsters and five crooked cops.

  

  Tony Sirico
  • Movies
  • Gangsters
  • Cops

• All eyes, all attention at the federal level, are on al Qaeda and the war on terror. Fact is, al Qaeda wouldn't last a day in parts of Philadelphia. I've got gangsters with .45s that would run them out of town.

  

  Michael Nutter
  • Running
  • Attention
  • Philadelphia

• I play a lot of hard men and gangsters, and I’m not like that at all.

  

  Sean Pertwee
  • Gangsters

• I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies were all like that. They'd create little teams to go out and shoot films.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Team
  • Comedy
  • Film

• The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Nations
  • Gangsters

• 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
  • Brain
  • Film
  • Theory

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