Gangster Quotes

• It's funny how the ruthless, murderous gangster has really been romanticized by the media. I mean, I grew up watching the 'Godfathers' and 'Scarface,' and they were the coolest. They're just really interesting stories with great characters. They're rock stars.

  

  Elena Satine
  • Up
  • Great
  • Interesting

• When I say I'm going gangster, I'm working really hard at something.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • Gangster

• All my cop/gangster dramas have been spaced out, but somewhere, the films in which I played the bad guy were extremely successful, so people are under the impression that I play only such roles. I call it selective amnesia.

  

  Ajith Kumar
  • People
  • Bad
  • Guy

• If you are black on television, you are probably going to be some kind of thug, gangster, or portrayed in a negative light. If you are some type of Muslim, you are going to be blowing stuff up. If you are Hispanic, you are going to be some type of gangbanger. I've felt like this for years.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • Up
  • Black
  • Light

• We had an apartment on west side of Central Park. The rent was very reasonable. We found out later that it belonged to a gangster called Legs Diamond and it was a front to his headquarters. It was fine.

  

  James Stewart
  • Diamond
  • Gangster

• 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
  • Story

• I love country music, but I also love gangster rap.

  

  Anderson East
  • Music
  • Country
  • Rap

• 'The Godfather' is the talismanic giant that hangs over everything in the gangster genre.

  

  James Watkins
  • Gangster
  • Godfather

• Music definitely gave me a focus. I was an artist without an outlet. Let's just say if I was not famous, I could have been infamous. I could've had my own episode of 'American Gangster.'

  

  CeeLo Green
  • Music
  • American
  • Focus

• We want 'McMafia' to be a tense gangster story but also a family story. It's a collusion of those two worlds.

  

  James Watkins
  • Family
  • Gangster

• I'd love to play a gangster but I think people might say I looked a bit too young and cheeky to play a character who'd just blown someones head off!

  

  Dominic Monaghan
  • People
  • Character
  • Gangster

• Some call me a gangster of love...

  

  Steve Miller The Steve Miller Band
  • Love
  • Call
  • Gangster

• People love stories about the mafia: 'The Godfather,' 'American Gangster.'

  

  Jason Statham
  • People
  • American
  • Godfather

• When you see my performances, even people that you might have known, like Nicky Barnes in 'American Gangster,' you have to get over the fact that I look like Cuba Gooding, Jr. But once you find truth in the performance, if I'm doing my job right, you believe everything.

  

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.
  • People
  • Believe
  • Job

• I think when people think of Compton, of course, they always think of gangster rap. But if you ever had an opportunity to go to Compton, you would know that Compton is a beautiful city.

  

  Aja Brown
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Opportunity

• Empty the cup every time and it comes back at twice as full. I developed that attitude when I was very, very young, when I decided I didn't want to be a gangster anymore. Whether it's just shining shoes, I said okay, I'm going to do this better than anybody else did it in my life.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Life
  • Time
  • Attitude

• 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
  • Career
  • Gangster

• The perpetuation of gangster rap has really put a negative image on the city of Compton... So I look forward to addressing that image, changing it and making it more accurate.

  

  Aja Brown
  • City
  • Rap
  • Gangster

• I definitely would like to do something serious. Not like a love story, but serious like maybe a gangster or a mobster. A gang or a mob movie would be great.

  

  Jason Mewes
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Serious

• Am I a gangster or a murderer? Of what crime do I stand Condemned? I made the whole world weep At the beauty of my land.

  

  Boris Pasternak
  • World
  • Gangster

• There are many people who think I'm actually a gangster or a mafioso, largely because of 'Goodfella.'

  

  Paul Sorvino
  • People
  • Think
  • Gangster

• Jay-Z is a hero, Sam Walton is a hero - these are not exactly communitarian champions. These are - in some cases, literally; in others, just figuratively - gangster heroes. That's who is worshipped: people who get away with it.

  

  George Packer
  • People
  • Hero
  • Gangster

• Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school.

  

  George Mikes
  • School
  • Television
  • Educational

• I'm a Honey G fan. She can spit some vibes on one of my songs; she's got rhymes for days! She's gangster. I love her.

  

  James Arthur
  • She
  • Gangster

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