A Quote by Orson Welles

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

Orson Welles

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Classy Gangster Hollywood Invention

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Orson Welles
American - Actor
May 6, 1915 - October 10, 1985

I love the gangster genre, but how many gangster movies are there? If I get a good gangster movie script, I'll do it.

Graham King

Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy.' You've got to be original and stand out from the crowd and take some chances. But you've always got to keep it classy.

Mayer Hawthorne

Jay Prince is a real gangster. He ain't hiding behind a desk talking. He is the true living definition of what a gangster is. If you wanna see the truth and what gangster really is, that's what Jay Prince is.

Scarface

I would just as soon listen to a gangster lecture on honesty as watch Hollywood portray the Bible.

Vance Havner

Stanley Tucci is a classy actor, and Ian Holm is very short but equally classy - and both are also amazing.

Kayvan Novak

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

Cornel West

Hollywood is a land of self-invention.

Brian Koppelman

There was an article about me once, and the first line was, 'It's good to be a gangster.' Well, I'm not a gangster. I'm an actor.

Frank Vincent

My uncle was a gangster in the real gangster days. I witnessed it, I felt it, I smelt it the situation, I was involved. It was like knowing a movie star.

Bugzy Malone

My dad had a real big reputation as being the hard man, street fighter, the gangster. My stepdad was quite timid, and I wanted a bit of the gangster in my life.

Ashley Walters

You just have to be classy at the end of the day. That doesn't mean you can't go with a midnight blue tux. And if you can find a deep red tux that looks classy and classic, I think you can pull it off.

Paul Feig

Aaranya Kaandam' is not the biography or history of a gangster but a page out of the life of a gangster. It is like a day in his life.

Thiagarajan Kumararaja

I remember my first thing was 'CSI: Miami.' I played a Cuban gangster. And that was it. I was like, 'Wow, I don't have to clean toilets.' I could actually dress up and get paid equivalent to that. So that was my introduction into the Hollywood industry.

Richard Cabral

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

Alfred North Whitehead

In my world, of course, it don't matter. You could be a gangster with a dress, you could be a gangster with baggy pants.

Young Thug

James Brown is the perfect example of flashy but classy. Classy doesn't have to mean boring. His gear was flamboyant but without being so over the top. The cape was probably the biggest part of his persona. He looked like Superman.

Mayer Hawthorne

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