Quotes About Gangsters

#1. The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

Stanley Kubrick

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Method Man

#8. Since the gangsters are glamorized, by extension the women they sleep with are also necessarily glamorous.

Sonia Faleiro

#9. 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

#10. There are allegations actually that he's [Vladimir Putin] associated with real gangsters in the past and that he runs his top circle sort of like a mafia family. But, you know, what is clear is that he seems to prize loyalty above all. He deeply resents anything that he sees as a betrayal.

Corey Flintoff

#11. 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

#12. Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs ... gangsters who lust after fortunes and power.

Cindy Sheehan

#13. 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

#14. Nw a kind of no-man's-land occupied by a neo-Elizabethan hugger-mugger of racketeers, drug dealers, gangsters and abortionists, the shark-toothed area seemed only a rowdier version of the city all around - a freewheeling, free-spending center of free enterprise.

Pico Iyer

#15. They don't have gangsters in Bay City. They're all working in pictures.

Raymond Chandler

#16. I've done, like, 45 movies, played 40 gangsters and five crooked cops.

Tony Sirico

#17. In the tide pool I was riveted by fat pink sea stars sitting like satisfied gangsters and seemingly unconcerned by their exposure; gulls would peck at them but the sea stars simply grew replacement limbs.

Mary Ellen Hannibal

#18. Referring to Russian commissars as half-gramophones, half-gangsters.

George Orwell

#19. What are they trying to do?" Davison asked. "I never heard of anything like this."
I took my eyes off Ginger's legs. "Gangsters," I said.
"But they've gone out of style," Davison said. "They don't have gangsters any more."
"Suppose you go out and tell them that," I said.

Jonathan Latimer

#20. Yeah, says the Newsday reporter, he's a real pacifist. He's the Gandhi of Gangsters.

J.R. Moehringer

#21. I decided that if the police couldn't catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who could.

Chester Gould

#22. 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

#23. Gun control? It's the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters. I want you to have nothing. I'm a bad guy; I'm always gonna have a gun. Safety locks? You will pull the trigger with a lock on, and I'll pull the trigger. We'll see who wins.

Sammy Gravano

#24. Misrepresentation, false propaganda, innuendoes soon sprout into poisonous weeds, and before long the people find themselves victims of a pollution that has robbed them of their individual liberty and enslaved them to a group of political gangsters.

David O. McKay

#25. Being from Texas, I didn't know anything about gangsters and people like that, I had no fear of people.

Carl Gardner

#26. 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

#27. Playing gangsters is great. They usually dress you sharp. And you have a license to pretty much bully anybody. I mean, I wouldn't dare do that at home. My wife will give me a back hander.

Alex Rocco

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. Everybody needs love. There are a lot of guys that you think are hard-core gangsters, but all these guys' weaknesses are women. Look at the movie Scarface. At the end of the day, all he wanted to do was to have kids with his woman.

Master P

#31. I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen persona. Here is Robert, known for his portrayal of many characters, including gangsters. But in real life, he is elegant and erudite. He sits in the garden reading the sonnets of William Shakespeare.

Luanne Rice

#32. How many times do I have to tell you? We are not gangsters!

Peter Cimino

#33. When you're a kid and you see gangsters living the life, you kind of want to be like that.

Jaume Collet-Serra

#34. Cops, Hoshino concluded, not for the first time in his life, are just gangsters who get paid by the state.

Haruki Murakami

#35. When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching ... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.

Geoffrey Canada

#36. Christmas ought to be brought up to date," Maria said. "It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols.

John Masefield

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. Night gangsters! For this crime I will exact a thousand fold revenge!

Adolf Hitler

#41. Athletes rejected, governors corrected
Gangsters, thugs and smugglers are thoroughly respected
The money gets divided
The women get excited
Now I'm broke and it's no joke
It's hard as hell to fight it, don't buy it!

Grandmaster Flash

#42. What do you mean "gangsters"? It's business.

Abraham Polonsky

#43. Of course, political leaders are much more ambitious than gangsters. The latter are content to take your money, whereas the former, besides taking far more of your money, have the effrontery to violate your just rights whenever their convenience dictates ...

Robert Higgs

#44. 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

#45. The gang war will never end. Because at it's core , it is not the gangsters against the police or the gangster against another. It is a young man with a Mauser against history personal and political, it is revolution one murder at a time.

Suketu Mehta

#46. Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

C.S. Lewis

#47. I play a lot of hard men and gangsters, and I'm not like that at all.

Sean Pertwee

#48. 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

#49. The people who control this country are the real gangsters. You know that, right? And if you play by their rules, you're nothing but their slave.

Dan Chaon

#50. Dancing in speakeasies was a job, and none of us knew for sure who were gangsters. No one told us, so how could we know? My mother used to come and take me home. We thought nothing of walking home together at two in the morning.

Ruby Keeler

#51. I knew so many gangsters, and I call on that experience with them for characters.

Frank Vincent

#52. God knows America would be the greatest again if she operated like the Nugent family. No takers, no whiners, no gangsters, no dopers, no drunks, no criminals, no bloodsuckers, no excuse makers, no crybabies, no punks, no Obama supporters.

Ted Nugent

#53. The fact is, all gangsters live in dog years. We come up fast in terms of making a name for ourselves, but, once our names have been established on the streets, we are on our way out.

Drexel Deal

#54. I'm not romanticizing black people, because we've got gangsters like everybody else.

Cornel West

#55. Like many Eastern European gangsters, he had been an official in the state security apparatus until the Communist regime collapsed.

Massimo Carlotto

#56. He said, Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a lie.

Russell Banks

#57. What do you call those things at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful gangsters?

Terry Pratchett

#58. I felt my country should do more for its children. Its children are not born gangsters. In fact, they have in them the potential to be heroes because most of the kids who are in these gangs are leaders, very charismatic and good organizers.

Azim Khamisa

#59. We are a democracy and we don't believe in just hunting down gangsters and killing them. We believe in trying to find the gangsters and bring them back for trial, and give them a trial under rule of law. That's what democracies do.

Cornel West

#60. 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

#61. In the 1970s and early '80s, Shanghai was quiet, cautious, a ghost of a once-great city - and yet physically, little was changed from its glittering heyday. When visiting, I enjoyed reading books on local history and used my time off to scope out the former haunts of gangsters and jazzmen.

Nicole Mones

#62. All eyes, all attention at the federal level, are on al Qaeda and the war on terror. Fact is, al Qaeda wouldn't last a day in parts of Philadelphia. I've got gangsters with .45s that would run them out of town.

Michael Nutter

#63. I'm a gangster, and gangsters don't ask questions.

Lil' Wayne

#64. 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

#65. To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be. They play gangsters, nowadays, just like boys. They organize rackets. They plan holdups and practice karate. They will rape defenseless adolescents. They wear pants ... Life has become impossible.

Alain Robbe-Grillet

#66. 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

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. I certainly didn't look like a gangster, but I had a gangster mentality. Gangsters only care about themselves and theirs.

Piper Kerman

#70. Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.

Mickey Rourke

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. It is the rule of law alone which hinders the rulers from turning themselves into the worst gangsters.

Ludwig Von Mises

#74. There are no ghettos in Heaven,
no suburbs in Hell,
no gutters in Heaven,
but you'll find repentant gangsters.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#75. Dance bars are seen as the place where gangsters go to relax and spend money.

Sonia Faleiro

#76. 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

#77. Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.

Tim Robbins

#78. Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up?

Bob Dylan

#79. Before we made films about gangsters, everything was about the royal families. They contain so much drama.

Mads Mikkelsen

#80. A lot of these kids have no fathers, and they want to be gangsters. They don't believe in God and have no faith in anything but their own instincts. Boxing provides a way for them to express themselves in a positive way, and I'm happy to be able to help them.

Bobby Slayton

#81. Like gangsters yelling out roll call before they slaughtered a group of weeping traitors.

James Dashner

#82. I think we have always had a fascination for gangs and gangsters, and I think we always will.

Ross Kemp

#83. 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

#84. He had seen many criminals in his years in Division. Dangerous men and even more dangerous women. Small-time hucksters and savvy crime lords. Spies, gangsters, assassins, insurgents and wannabe-revolutionaries. True believers and soulless mercs willing to kill children for the right price.

G.S. Jennsen

#85. An archetypal gangster is always at a remove. We can't get into his mindset.

Jacques Audiard

#86. What's your name?"
"Emma Gould," she said. "What's yours?"
"Wanted."
"By all the girls or just the law?

Dennis Lehane

#87. Gang members have joined the military since the mid-1800s.

Carter F. Smith

#88. It occurred to him that thinking like this could explain why, even after all the jobs he'd pulled, he rarely had much money in his pockets. Sometimes it seemed like he stole money from one place just to give it away somewhere else.

Dennis Lehane

#89. To discover what becomes of men who do not pay debts owed to Ratilla, one must visit the underworld.

A.H. Septimius

#90. I'm not a gangster, I don't have no desire to be hard.

Drake

#91. When a woman once asked Joe how he could come from such a magnificent home and such a good family and still become a gangster, Joe's answer was two-pronged: (a) he wasn't a gangster, he was an outlaw; (b) he came from a magnificent house not a magnificent home.

Dennis Lehane

#92. Gangster is the truest friend I can ever ask for.

Sylvester Stallone

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

Carter F. Smith

#94. Never piss off a gangster.

Chael Sonnen

#95. I felt like Dirty Harry, only, my weapon wasn't as big as his! I don't know what it is with guns, but once you've got your hand on one, you think you're one of the untouchables.

Stephen Richards

#96. Small boys often produce their own plays; but usually the parts are not written out. They hardly need to be, for the main line of each character is always "Stick 'em up!" In these plays the curtain is always rung down on a set of corpses, for small boys are by nature through and uncompromising.

A.S. Neill

#97. There was a ringing in his ears, like a dead phone line that he couldn't hang up on.

Mark Capell

#98. If being a gangster were a prerequisite to being a musician, there'd be a lot less cello music, for example.

Greg Giraldo

#99. Jesse and Frank James were the most well-known military-trained gang members

Carter F. Smith

#100. Gangs have had connections to the U.S. Military in every period since the founding of the country.

Carter F. Smith