As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a…

I like 'The Usual Suspects'. Great film. I also like 'Scarface', films like that. Lots of gangster films. I really like watching all kinds…

— Barkhad Abdi

You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired and hero-worshipped…

— Stanley Kubrick

I feel as if I have been blessed to undergo a transformation from 'gangster' to 'redeemed sinner with gangster proclivities.'

— Cornel West

Hip-hop is not about crime. Hip-hop is not about being a gangster.

— KRS-One

Trump wants to be the first American tsar. With his hero worship of Putin, his admiration for the apparent omnipotence of the Kremlin, schoolboyish…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Giving a record company an album is like giving a gangster your baby or something.

— Steve Miller

Some girls are good Some girls are bad...I come in both flavours, I'm tha best you eva had.

— Anonymous

“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…

— Lorenzo Carcaterra

“When you understand the mechanincs of stress and master the techniques to manipulate someone's fears and dreams, you will be powerful.”

— Anonymous

I'm a culinary gangsta with a very spiritual side, so when I was introduced to the 'spiritual gangster' line, I had to have it.

— Guy Fieri

As long as I could remember I always wanted to be a gangster.

— Henry Hill

“Im not a gangster, I'm just a brother who fights back.”

— Kevin Zarbailov

I never could be a diva. I don't know if it's because of my size or how I was raised. Because more of the…

— Mike Evans

We want 'McMafia' to be a tense gangster story but also a family story. It's a collusion of those two worlds.

— James Watkins

Especially in gangster films, with the gangster's moll - she would always be more or less of an object. And I'm not convinced of…

— Sergio Leone