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Quotes About Gangster

I prefer comedy, as I have to act while playing a gangster. I have to put in a lot of effort to turn into a gangster, as I am not like that in real life. In comedy, one doesn't have to take up such stress.
~ Pankaj Tripathi
Music definitely gave me a focus. I was an artist without an outlet. Let's just say if I was not famous, I could have been infamous. I could've had my own episode of 'American Gangster.'
~ CeeLo Green
Right now Jabba just said "Boska," and when the boss says boska, we boska.
~ Paul Dini
The pasta was always al dente, an expression which could be pressed into service as the name of a ferocious gangster.
~ Clive James
When he smiled, however, you saw the softness in his eyes, which made it clear that Lefty was in fact no gangster but the pampered, bookish son of comfortably well-off parents.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Witherspoon is a gangster, a cheat, and a God damn liar, but he is of very little actual importance; merely a boodling nincompoop.
~ David Gerrold
Bessant friend of the deceased, also an art dealer Malcolm Neilson artist William Allison Neilson's lawyer Dominic Mann art dealer Eric "Brains" Bain detective, computer specialist Professor Gates pathologist Morris Gerald "Big Ger" Cafferty Edinburgh's preeminent gangster
~ Ian Rankin
Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
~ Quincy Jones
If you want street fight, let's go. If you want boxing, I show you. But people think I am, like, gangster. No. Ring is different world. Very dangerous.
~ Gennady Golovkin
I'm a Honey G fan. She can spit some vibes on one of my songs; she's got rhymes for days! She's gangster. I love her.
~ James Arthur
A true gangster can smell out a person's strenghts and weaknesses in a matter of minutes, but what they can sense most of all, what their bodies are most attuned to, is the scent of fear.
~ Lorenzo Carcaterra
No gangster is ever happy when he's at peace. The main reason he's in the business is to eliminate his enemies.
~ Lorenzo Carcaterra
It's always better to like a gangster from a distance anyway. Like a tiger cub in a cage. They always look soft and cute and warm behind those iron bars. Everybody's happy, smilimg, waving, taking pictures. But you take away those bars and all that goes away. All that's left is the fear.
~ Lorenzo Carcaterra
He had no tolerance for acts of betrayal or cruelty and lacked Angelo's taste for the minute details of a business deal. He was a man totally in the moment, who knew only to respond to the action with an action. He was a pure gangster.
~ Lorenzo Carcaterra
market firearms, and gangster gear as defined by GQ
~ Dean Koontz
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
We all know who you are, Mr. Coughlin. Famous Yankee gangster. Friend of the colonel. It would be safer for a man to swim into the middle of the ocean and cut his own throat than to threaten you.' He solemnly made the sign of the cross. 'But when people starve and have nowhere to go, where would you have them end up?' 'Not on my land,' Joe said. 'But it is not your land. It's God's. You are renting it. This rum? This life?' He patted his chest. 'We are all just renting from God.
~ Dennis Lehane
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
~ Ingrid Bergman
Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime.
~ Shia LaBeouf
Melissa Barak, an ex-City Ballet dancer and sometime choreographer, has put together an unspeakably dopey and incompetent mess called 'Call Me Ben,' combining ultra-generic dance, terrible dialogue and disastrous storytelling, about the founding of Las Vegas by the gangster Bugsy Siegel, who insists, violently, on being addressed as 'Ben.'
~ Robert Gottlieb
They couldn't sweat him, no matter what they did. Hey, they were gringos—no way were they going to do the kind of things to him the Mexican cops and the Federales would have done. Every Mexican gangster knows this—Los Yunaites is the land of human rights
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
She had transferred to La Brea High School less than six months ago, and the guys there never did more than smile or ask her to dance. She could feel them looking at her when she walked down the hallways, but when she caught their glances, they looked away. Perhaps they saw the gangster in her eyes or in the curl of her lips. Veto had said she was like a jaguar; her show of teeth was a warning, not a smile. She was probably scaring the guys away without even knowing it.
~ Lynne Ewing
A true gangster can smell out a person's strenghts and weaknesses in a matter of minutes, but what they can sense most of all, what their bodies are most attuned to, is the scent of fear.
~ Lorenzo Carcaterra
I just think [Gangster Party Line] is funny and stupid and all the dudes in it are real dudes. It's just a funny construction.
~ Neal Brennan