When you're a kid and you see gangsters living the life…

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

What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory…

— Bernie Sanders

Virginia Woolf was one example. She was called the "Lover of 100 Gangsters."

— Sergio Leone

I am the epitome of the underdog. By societies standards I should have been dead a long time ago, and I was nobody's gangster,…

— Michael K. Williams

God knows America would be the greatest again if she operated like the Nugent family. No takers, no whiners, no gangsters, no dopers, no…

— Ted Nugent

Visually I've always liked the 20s 30s for film. I do these because I like the music. I like the clothes. I like the…

— Woody Allen

I so wreak of logic and commonsense that it is obviously very refreshing in this world of otherwise soulless politically correct denial and dishonesty.…

— Ted Nugent

The FBI was formed because the gangsters were better armed, better financed.

— Michael Horse

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

I always think that politicians are worse than the baddest gangsters.

— Finn Cole

First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women.

— Matt Groening

'The Godfather' changed the way gangsters acted.

— Frank Vincent

I think I could totally be a gangster, but I could never be the kind of gangster that carries things out myself. I would…

— Elena Satine

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

— Jocko Henderson

My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because…

— William S. Burroughs