Mickey Cohen Quotes

#1. I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It's always fun to do your take on someone so iconic.

Patrick Fischler

#2. What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better.

Harvey Keitel

#3. Mickey Cohen: New York, its like being a rat in a maze, everyone living on top of each other, but out here, I can breathe. I love Los Angeles.

Mickey Cohen

#4. I don't want to be in a movie with 20 minutes of dialogue and then stand around while the robots start explosions.

Henry Hopper

#5. I started rooting - you know, sticking up joints - with some older guys. By now I had gotten a taste of what the racket world really was - the glamour, the way they dressed, the way they always had a pocketful of money.

Mickey Cohen

#6. Use your profession to fund your passion.

Habeeb Akande

#7. I'm a freak in the fondest way possible.

Adam Lambert

#8. He wanted to show her how to live, even after he was gone.

Kass Morgan

#9. But at night we began dreaming of Man's perfect world without humanity (57)

Walter Mosley

#10. Forgiveness means that problems of the past no longer dictate our destinies, and we can focus on the future with God's love in our hearts.

David E. Sorensen

#11. Still, the idea continued to drum through her, like the constant patter of the rain: that no one would ever love her.

Lauren Oliver

#12. I'm not an educated man, but I've read some history. Every kingdom comes up bloody. Every castle is built on a pile of bones. When I came out here, LA was nothing. Back east I was a gangster, out here I'm god.

Mickey Cohen

#13. I never killed a guy who didn't deserve it.

Mickey Cohen

#14. I love the French edition with its uncut pages. I would not want a reader too lazy to use a knife on me.

Lawrence Durrell

#15. I have killed no men, that, in the first place, didn't deserve killing

Mickey Cohen

#16. I know married Catholics in a second union who go to church, who go to church once or twice a year and say I want communion, as if joining in Communion were an award. It's a work towards integration, all doors are open, but we cannot say, 'from here on they can have communion.'

Pope Francis

#17. I got a kick out of having a big bankroll in my pocket. Even if I only made a couple hundred dollars, I'd always keep it in fives and tens so it'd look big.

Mickey Cohen

#18. You have to reform the visa program. The chain migration system doesn't work. You need a guest workers program.

Kevin McCarthy

#19. My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I feel and as I don't feel.

Amanda McKittrick Ros

#20. All good things must one day be burnt to the ground for the insurance money.

Mickey Cohen

#21. Enlightened beings are rare in the universe. They are the joker in the deck. They are outside the circle.

Frederick Lenz

#22. The reason while we are in danger in this universe is this: We need the universe but the universe does not need us!

Mehmet Murat Ildan