L.a Capone Quotes

#1. I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.

Al Capone

#2. I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.

Al Capone

#3. He pulls a knife, you pull a gun, he sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue . . ." ~ Al Capone

J.J. McAvoy

#4. 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

#5. Knowing Jasmine's relationship to Simone, Capone didn't want me to have no parts of her.

Jessica N. Watkins

#6. 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

#7. I have built my organization upon fear.

Al Capone

#8. All I ever did was supply a demand that was pretty popular.

Al Capone

#9. Vote early and vote often.

Al Capone

#10. I went to high school with Al Capone.

Desi Arnaz

#11. I did it for the love of cash your honer, traffickin' cross the verrazano, coke dealin marijuana

Al Capone

#12. In this life all that I have is my word and my balls and I do not break them for nobody.

Al Capone

#13. If I didn't start singing in the cabarets and on my albums, I could have never even tried something like 'Capone.'

Danny Aiello

#14. I'm a kind person, I'm kind to everyone, but if you are unkind to me, then kindness is not what you'll remember me for

Al Capone

#15. This American system of ours,call it Americanism,call it capitalism,call it what you will,gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Al Capone

#16. I am sick and tired of publicity. I want no more of it. It puts me in a bad light. I just want to be forgotten.

Al Capone

#17. When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality.

Al Capone

#18. I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man.

Al Capone

#19. Don't mistake my kindness for weakness. I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me.

Al Capone

#20. Now I know why tigers eat their young.

Al Capone

#21. You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Al Capone

#22. Some call it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business.

Al Capone

#23. I never put my arms around John Gotti, Al Capone or Lucky Luciano.

Robert Stack

#24. Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes.

Caldwell Esselstyn

#25. Everybody owned stock in the Capone mob; in a way, he was a public benefactor. I remember one time when he arrived at his box seat in Dyche Stadium for a Northwestern football game on Boy Scout Day, and 8,000 scouts got up in the stands and screamed in cadence, 'Yea, yea, Big Al. Yea, yea, Big Al.'

Saul Alinsky

#26. Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.

Al Capone

#27. Don't mistake kindness for weakness

Al Capone

#28. You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.

Al Capone

#29. How many gangsters you know, from Al Capone up to John Gotti, been gay?

Method Man

#30. They've hung everything on me except the Chicago fire.

Al Capone