Gangsters Quotes · Page 3

What do you call those things at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful gangsters?

— Terry Pratchett

An archetypal gangster is always at a remove. We can't get into his mindset.

— Jacques Audiard

It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols.

— John Masefield

'The Godfather' changed the way gangsters acted.

— Frank Vincent

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

— Sergio Leone

The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.

— Stanley Kubrick

I found 'Celebrity Gangster' intense, dramatic, a real page turner.

— Irwin Winkler

“Naw, don’t usually have lattes with gangsters.”

— Anonymous

I definitely would like to do something serious. Not like a love story, but serious like maybe a gangster or a mobster.…

— Jason Mewes

Gangsters dont die, niggas only become immortal. Angels dont only fly, they walk right before you.

— Nas

In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a…

— Emraan Hashmi

“Behind the facade of elected government are a bunch of corporate controlled gangsters running the country.”

— Steven Magee

Basically, as everybody that has had a taste of the record business knows, they are gangsters and crooks.

— Steve Miller

You can fail in films because you don't have the talent, or you have too much humility, or you lack ferociousness. I'm…

— John Cassavetes

“Christmas ought to be brought up to date,” Maria said. “It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic…

— John Masefield

It is the rule of law alone which hinders the rulers from turning themselves into the worst gangsters.

— Ludwig von Mises

If Dr. Mahathir thinks that by ordering the police to act like gangsters he will frighten the people from supporting this reformation…

— Wan Azizah Wan Ismail

Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and…

— William C. Brown

The hip-hop that I really connected with was Public Enemy, KRS-One, Ice Cube, and N.W.A. That late '80s and early '90s era.…

— Jess Row

I think one of the most destructive things in terms of American security has been for all of our leaders, without exception…

— Michael Scheuer

Gun control? It's the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters. I want you to have nothing. I'm a bad…

— Sammy Gravano

Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I'm not the thief who grabs your…

— Tupac Shakur

Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the…

— Langston Hughes

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

— Elena Satine

We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe…

— Emma Goldman

The experience of the gangster as an experience of art is universal to Americans. There is almost nothing we understand better or…

— Robert Warshow

I wrote about Bosnia at the time. Somebody looked out their window and saw gangsters coming down the street and doing ethnic…

— Harold Evans

Russia, despite its heavy flirtation with capitalism and some quite unsavory oligarchs, is still building its foreign policy on the Soviet ideals…

— Andre Vltchek

I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having…

— Bill Cosby

“The Soviets were worried that the Americans would attack their "sparkling new Mir space station, ... in a space shuttle, throw out…

— James Mahaffey

First of all, Indonesian people have to be educated and to know what they want and what their country is all about.…

— Andre Vltchek

Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums,…

— Henry Miller

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

— Stanley Kubrick

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

— Michael Horse

How can I be a gangster, if I worked for the KGB? It is absolutely ridiculous.

— Vladimir Putin

Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?

— Paul Walker

If your mother still drives you to school, you are not a gangster, pull your pants up!

— Bill Engvall

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

— Finn Cole

I'm not romanticizing black people, because we've got gangsters like everybody else.

— Cornel West

I play a lot of hard men and gangsters, and I'm not like that at all.

— Sean Pertwee