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I'm a gangster, and gangsters don't ask questions. -- Lil Wayne
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. -- Stanley Kubrick
How many gangsters you know, from Al Capone up to John Gotti, been gay? -- Method Man
I decided that if the police couldn't catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who could. -- Chester Gould
And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. -- Lord Acton
My strangest media moment a photo session they all had dressed up like 50 gangsters. That was pretty cool. We have to get some more of those kind of photos sometimes. -- Kerry King
I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs. -- Quincy Jones
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
A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality - but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage. -- Charlie Hunnam
Virginia Woolf was one example. She was called the "Lover of 100 Gangsters." -- Sergio Leone
Some of my friends became gangsters. You became a gangster depending upon how fast you wanted a suit. Gangsters weren't the stereotypes you see in the movies. I knew the real ones, and the real ones were out for big money. -- Jack Kirby
Americans accept that gangsters are running the government. -- Tim Robbins
I've done, like, 45 movies, played 40 gangsters and five crooked cops. -- Tony Sirico
Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key. -- Mickey Rourke
As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. -- Nicholas Pileggi
Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs... gangsters who lust after fortunes and power. -- Cindy Sheehan
I knew so many gangsters, and I call on that experience with them for characters. -- Frank Vincent
Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know? -- Paul Walker
I play a lot of hard men and gangsters, and I'm not like that at all. -- Sean Pertwee
I think we have always had a fascination for gangs and gangsters, and I think we always will. -- Ross Kemp
I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times. -- Stanley Tucci
When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters. -- Geoffrey Canada
Rental formal wear of the sky-blue, brocade and shiny varieties is favored by upwardly mobile young gangsters drafted as groomsmen for weddings. -- George V. Higgins
If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's real embarrassing if someone tries to kill you. -- Jack Handey
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
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
Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models. -- Abel Ferrara
I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster. -- David Arquette
People generally thought that sharks are dumb eating machines. After some study, I began to realize that these 'gangsters' of the deep had gotten a bad rap. -- Eugenie Clark
It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters. -- Callum Keith Rennie
I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters. -- Martin Scorsese
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
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
Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies. -- Brion James
As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume. -- Orlando Bloom
I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict. -- Lenny Kravitz
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 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
I think we're fascinated by gangsters and that whole lifestyle and crossing the line. We get sort of stuck in our normal lives, if you will, and you want to be bigger than life and I think people somehow live through these sorts of characters. -- Denzel Washington
We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother. -- Quincy Jones
What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans. While the bankers wear three-piece suits and don't break the knee caps of those who can't pay back, they still are destroying people's lives. -- Bernie Sanders
Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I`m not the thief who grabs your purse. I`m not the guy who jacks your car. I`m not down with the people who steal and hurt others. I`m just a brother who fight back. -- Tupac Shakur
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
Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc. -- Henry Miller
What do you mean "gangsters"? It's business. -- Abraham Polonsky
Night gangsters! For this crime I will exact a thousand fold revenge! -- Adolf Hitler
I'm not romanticizing black people, because we've got gangsters like everybody else. -- Cornel West
I've only played gangsters and cops, and I always have to be serious. -- Manny Montana
It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols. -- John Masefield
Dance bars are seen as the place where gangsters go to relax and spend money. -- Sonia Faleiro
What do you call those things at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful gangsters? -- Terry Pratchett
Since the gangsters are glamorized, by extension the women they sleep with are also necessarily glamorous. -- Sonia Faleiro
Before we made films about gangsters, everything was about the royal families. They contain so much drama. -- Mads Mikkelsen
It is the rule of law alone which hinders the rulers from turning themselves into the worst gangsters. -- Ludwig von Mises
Being from Texas, I didn't know anything about gangsters and people like that, I had no fear of people. -- Carl Gardner
When you're a kid and you see gangsters living the life, you kind of want to be like that. -- Jaume Collet-Serra
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
When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching. It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters, -- Geoffrey Canada
Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up? -- Bob Dylan
Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a lie. -- Jocko Henderson
Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently. -- A. J. P. Taylor
Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads. -- William C. Brown
Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire. -- Stephen King
When you're a Scientologist it's like the movie Goodfellas, where the gangsters hang out with only other gangsters. We only hung out with each other, so we knew we were saving the world. -- Kate Bornstein
I think it's kinda funny that all these rappers that used to be gangsters and thugs are telling us not to download their music from the internet, because that's stealing. Wow talk about ironic. -- Daniel Tosh
America is a nation of 270 million people: 100 million of them are gangsters, another 100 million are hustlers, 50 million are complete lunatics, and every single one of us is secretly in show business. Isn't that fabulous? -- Tom Robbins
If Dr. Mahathir thinks that by ordering the police to act like gangsters he will frighten the people from supporting this reformation movement, he is dreaming. I think he has cut himself off from reality. -- Wan Azizah Wan Ismail

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