Gangs Of New York Quotes

#1. I did 'Gangs of New York' with Martin Scorsese, and they used to call me 'Little Joe Pesci' on the set.

Stephen Graham

#2. West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York.

Vincente Minnelli

#3. How was it they had cut to Hollywood Boulevard for a fluff piece and ended up with Gangs of New-Fucking-York?! Bonnie looked to her co-Anchor. He was wearing a good mouth for cooling soup.

David Louden

#4. We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.

Irwin Rose

#5. I usually go into a store with a mission. My idea of a fun thing to do would not be to go to a mall and shopping.

Isla Fisher

#6. My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.

Martin Scorsese

#7. We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body.

Ray Kurzweil

#8. As a young kid I was in love with breakdancing. I practiced the uprock style, which is a battle style of dance that looks like fighting. It comes from the gangs in New York in the 1960s and '70s. It's beautiful, almost like a martial art, and it can be funny, too, because you make fun of each other.

Jose Parla

#9. The first gang members who joined the military were known as the Hounds, a group of former New York gang members.

Carter F. Smith

#10. I like to work in films, but I'd love to work in the technical side of film. I'd love to work with, say, Greg Nicotero [The Walking Dead] in kind of, like, special makeup effects. I'd probably say, "Good with clay and latex." Although I don't know what kind of job that'd get me.

Simon Pegg

#11. The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds.

Thomas Sankara

#12. In advanced practice there is a sense of commitment to the study. It is happy; it's never forced. It is a natural evolutionary process of an evolved being.

Frederick Lenz

#13. Sometimes I feel like I could disappear and no one would miss me, like a sad, forlorn helium balloon floating away until it vanishes.

Zoe Dawson

#14. God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts.

Anonymous

#15. You simply cannot blame anyone or anything for causing you to be, think or respond in a certain way.

Marshall Sylver