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Quotes About Gangster

I'd gotten used to lip-synching without blushing; that's the way it was done. Very few shows were live. We were getting a little bit cynical about the tripe market. You realized that you were really in one of the sleaziest businesses there is, without actually being a gangster. It was a business where the only time people laughed was when they'd screwed someone else over.
~ Keith Richards
What do you want me to call them? Shits and Giggles? Fists and Kneecap? Nah, I don't like that one. Hammer and Nails? Dude, these kids are hard-core gangster. They need kick-A names, not that blah, blah sh-crap you gave them." - William
~ Gena Showalter
I found 'Celebrity Gangster' intense, dramatic, a real page turner.
~ Irwin Winkler
All my cop/gangster dramas have been spaced out, but somewhere, the films in which I played the bad guy were extremely successful, so people are under the impression that I play only such roles. I call it selective amnesia.
~ Ajith Kumar
I've got songs that'll make a gangster cry.
~ E-40
It's like the joke about the post-modernist gangster who makes you an offer ye canna understand.
~ Charles Stross
The great attraction to 'American Gangster' is these two great characters who are absolute paradoxes within their own sphere.
~ Ridley Scott
I probably got your mommy strung, niggas hear me and take more notes than conny chung, my clan plans to get julieanni hung.
~ Lamont Coleman
I feel as if I have been blessed to undergo a transformation from 'gangster' to 'redeemed sinner with gangster proclivities.'
~ Cornel West
The primary school I attended in Shanghai was a very liberal one, established by scholars who had return from an education in France. The children of leading families were enrolled there, including the son of a well-known man believed to be a top gangster of the underworld!
~ Charles K. Kao
I'm the G when you spell OG
~ Genereux Philip
A couple of weeks later Russell told me that Joey Glimco was Giuseppe Primavera. He had been with Al Capone and was very big with the Chicago outfit. He had a big record, a couple of murder arrests. He took the Fifth on every question during the McClellan Committee hearings, including whether he knew Jimmy Hoffa.
~ Charles Brandt
I think he was a gangster." "Why you say that?" Miss Izi asked. "He had a lot of pockmarks on his face." "That's nothing," Miss Izi said. "That could be from learning to use a fork.
~ James McBride
It's funny how the ruthless, murderous gangster has really been romanticized by the media. I mean, I grew up watching the 'Godfathers' and 'Scarface,' and they were the coolest. They're just really interesting stories with great characters. They're rock stars.
~ Elena Satine
I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
~ Eddie Marsan
This was what the old gangster in the California prison had been trying to describe to Elizabeth Waring. The tape-recorder team in New York had managed to stumble on a man who had never done anything for a living except kill people. He had been doing it for, say, twenty years, and he had gotten pretty good at it.
~ Thomas Perry
Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?
~ Paul Walker
A freelance gangster and thief" (as Herbert Asbury describes him in his classic work The Gangs of New York), Hicks embarked on his criminal career at the age
~ Harold Schechter
People love stories about the mafia: 'The Godfather,' 'American Gangster.'
~ Jason Statham
I'm an emotional gangster. I cry once every month.
~ Cardi B
It would have pained the immaculate Monty, could he have known that his prospective employer was picturing him at the moment as furtive, shifty-eyed, rat-like person of the gangster, type, liable at the first opportunity to sneak into the sties of innocent pigs and plant pineapple bombs in their bran-mash.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
At the age of 12 my ambition was to become a gangster. To be a wiseguy. Being a wiseguy was better than being President of the United States. To be a wiseguy was to own the world.
~ Henry Hill
He always talked about going out gangster, like Scarface. When he fell, though, he had tears in his eyes.
~ Chris Wilson
I like 'The Usual Suspects'. Great film. I also like 'Scarface', films like that. Lots of gangster films. I really like watching all kinds of films, dramas, romance. I'll watch comedies. I like Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Denzel Washington, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle. I'd like to meet them.
~ Barkhad Abdi