Quotes About Gangster

The British establishment sold its soul long ago and welcomes any foreign villain, crook and gangster that has dirty money to invest in the UK, buying luxury homes to fuel the upward spiral of house prices.

I'm a dirty south goon - damn right, I ain't no West coast gangster.

I've always done music with so-called thug- or gangster-type lyricists. I've always been associated with that because I'm from the West Coast.

Hip-hop was a big part of my life growing up, especially West Coast gangster rap.

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.

We had an apartment on west side of Central Park. The rent was very reasonable. We found out later that it belonged to a gangster called Legs Diamond and it was a front to his headquarters. It was fine.

We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.

I think I could totally be a gangster, but I could never be the kind of gangster that carries things out myself. I would have to be the kingpin that has my minions go and do the dirty bidding. I think I'd be pretty good at giving orders.

I am not a pacifist. The main lesson I have learned in my dealings with Hitler is that one simply can't play poker with a gangster if one has no cards in one's hand.

He was the antithesis of the gaudy mafiosi

I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns.

The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny each other's existence. We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal.

Bugsy Siegel. The mobster with the beautiful blue eyes.

What's his name?" "Jimmy Rat." "For real?" "That's what he goes by." "Where would I find Mr. Rat?

successful city trader. Which in some ways he was, when you came to think of it. The markets went up, they went down, and if you were smart you could control whichever way they moved. Winner takes all. It didn't matter whether you were a trader shifting shares in oil, or a gangster moving cocaine or heroin. The stakes were as high for both, and those with the biggest balls never, ever lost.

The whites have become black. A particular sort of violent, destructive, nihilistic gangster culture has become the fashion. Black and white, boy and girl operate in this language together. This language, which is wholly false, which is this Jamaican patois that has intruded in England.

No convention of the gangster film is more strongly established than this: it is dangerous to be alone. And yet the very conditions of success make it impossible not to be alone…. The successful man is an outlaw.

In its initial character, the gangster film is simply one example of the movies' constant tendency to create fixed dramatic patterns that can be repeated indefinitely with a reasonable expectation of profit.

The gangster is the man of the city, with the city's language and knowledge, with its queer and dishonest skills and its terrible daring, carrying his life in his hands like a placard, like a club.

some Haitian gangster-cum-political bigwig. He had seen such characters

I do not claim that God is dead. I tell you He is alive and well but in no position to offer salvation, being damned Himself for His criminal indifference. He was lost the moment He demanded fealty and worship before He would offer His protection. The unmistakable bargain of a gangster.

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

I think the reason 'Sexy Beast' was so good was it wasn't just another run-of-the-mill gangster film; it was a love story.

I'm the number-one fan of gangster movies.