Capone quotes:

+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
  • Putin is like Al Capone. -- Garry Kasparov
  • I went to high school with Al Capone. -- Desi Arnaz
  • I never put my arms around John Gotti, Al Capone or Lucky Luciano. -- Robert Stack
  • How many gangsters you know, from Al Capone up to John Gotti, been gay? -- Method Man
  • Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise you that I'm not Al Capone! -- Robert Stack
  • Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you. -- Ice Cube
  • When I was young I looked like Al Capone, but I lacked his compassion. -- Oscar Levant
  • Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes. -- Caldwell Esselstyn
  • So while you're imitating Al Capone, I'll be Nina Simone, And defacating on your microphone -- Lauryn Hill
  • So you can imagine what happens when a mainland species gets introduced to an island. It would be like introducing Al Capone, Genghis Khan and Rupert Murdoch into the Isle of Wight - the locals wouldn't stand a chance. -- Douglas Adams
  • I had a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, promotions. l might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate a racket in three city districts. The Marines operated on three continents. -- Michael Parenti
  • You want to get Capone? Here's how you get him: he pulls a knife, you pull a gun, he sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. It's the Chicago way and that's how you get Capone. -- David Mamet
  • Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.' -- Al Capone
  • One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s. -- Martin Scorsese
  • They are superpower of villains. They are superpower of Al Capone. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
  • Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords. -- David Remnick
  • If I didn't start singing in the cabarets and on my albums, I could have never even tried something like 'Capone.' -- Danny Aiello
  • The Capone era. That was my time. Capone was a big baseball fan. He'd walk into the ballpark like the president walking in today, with bodyguards all around him. -- Billy Herman
  • I'd been doing the Chicago theatre thing for years. The money was kinda good - thanks to a push by my old pal Capone, who, let's say, persuaded theatre owners to book me. -- Buddy Lester
  • 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
  • I've collaborated with artists that truly run the gamut: from members of the Wu Tang Clan and Capone, to Moby, Lady Gaga, and opening for artists such as Sheryl Crow, Jack White, and Chris Shiflett of the Foo Fighters, etc. -- Wendy Starland
  • I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long.... Looking back on it, I feel I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three city districts. We Marines operated on three CONTINENTS -- Smedley Butler
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share