I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.
We got skate parks in different states, but me skating? Nah, I'm too gangster; I can't rock with it. But I watch it.
There are many people who think I'm actually a gangster or a mafioso, largely because of 'Goodfella.'
In 'Vagabond,' I'm acting like a gangster; it's very tough. I have to use my body for action scenes, and there is nothing gentlemanly about this character at all.
Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience will be disappointed if there's not a tragic ending.
The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western.
When we die, our souls still live. If you are a gangster or a bastard or a crook, your soul inhabits a donkey or something terrible.
There are many people who think I'm actually a gangster or a mafioso, largely because of 'Goodfella'.
I have been a part of four different genres - a political satire, gangster drama, thriller and period drama.
Someone, I was beginning to suspect, had a bit of a gangster complex. It wasn't really very hard to figure out who. I mean, I was guessing it wasn't Christopher's aunt Jackie.
I've played some gangster roles, but that's obviously not me. When you're an Italian-American New York actor, it's just an easy way to get cast.
In all honesty a gangster picture was the easiest kind of film for me to get made.
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.
Ice Cube is doing so great. He went from being this hardcore gangster rapper to this actor now. He's doing children's movies and all this stuff - he's rocking it.
We want 'McMafia' to be a tense gangster story but also a family story. It's a collusion of those two worlds.
I don't think there's much a person could say about me. My gangster's never been on trial.
Where is Conor? He wanna fight with a bus. I want to fight with a real gangster. Iaquinta, thank you so much.
I love country music, but I also love gangster rap.
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.
My core thing is gangster rap, but a lot of my music is melodic and carries a message of survival.
I watch a lot of CNN and the Food Network. Now, I'm learning how to cook healthy - when I was a kid low-fat was a Chinese gangster.
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.
I'm trying to bring gangster rap back to the forefront, like in the early '90s.
I look at old performance videos now, and it's really funny - I thought I was such a gangster!
The media have been tireless in their efforts to suppress the truth about the gangster state.
I am an undisputed gangster. To me, that means playing by my own rules.
I couldn't get roles as bad guys. They could see John Travolta as a gangster but not me, really. But, you know, that's just how things are.
I would just as soon listen to a gangster lecture on honesty as watch Hollywood portray the Bible.
Hip-hop was a big part of my life growing up, especially West Coast gangster rap.
I am totally inspired by 'Godfather,' one of the greatest films made. Also, I am fascinated by the thought of how someone becomes a gangster and continues to be one.
Our Bollywood industry works in such a way that when an actor is seen in a gangster's role, he is offered similar roles.
I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.
If being a gangster were a prerequisite to being a musician, there'd be a lot less cello music, for example.
I think the reason 'Sexy Beast' was so good was it wasn't just another run-of-the-mill gangster film; it was a love story.
Being in Birmingham, I thought I was going to be a gangster or a bag-runner or a thief. I heard music and I was determined to get out of there.
The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.
It's no longer a fad to be down for the young Black male. Everybody wants to go past. Like the gangster stuff, it just got exploited.
To me, being a gangster was better than being President of the United States.
I originally got my name after a gun because the way I rap; a gangster gave me the name in 1988.
Giving a record company an album is like giving a gangster your baby or something.
Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime.
Some of the greatest movies of all time are within this genre, 'The Godfather,' and 'Goodfellas,' and 'Untouchables' and there's just so many classic gangster movies that I was always such a fan of.
Before the GOP became the party of Trump's gangster capitalism, they weren't perfect capitalists, but they at least paid lip service to the power of markets and capitalism.
I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
I met this gangster who pulls up people's pants. Name's Wedgie Kray.
My dad wasn't a gangster, and he wasn't a criminal, but he sure liked to rub padded shoulders with them.
You can fail in films because you don't have the talent, or you have too much humility, or you lack ferociousness. I'm a gangster. If I want something, I'll grab it.
Accosting somebody in public can be regrettable. Accosting a gangster can be hazardous.
You know the slow-motion walking shot in "Reservoir Dogs"? That was in the Tommy Udo tradition. That strut, that way of wearing your suit, is what I think gangster chic is.
I think a lot of rappers limit themselves by doing the gangster movies and that's stereotypical for a rapper.
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, I wasn't a thug, I wasn't selling drugs on the corner - I was scared of that.
If your mother still drives you to school, you are not a gangster, pull your pants up!
I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me.
I walked out on American Gangster: this evil piece of dreck. Defenders of this junk say that these movies give Black actors jobs. So did "Birth of a Nation."
The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western
No gangster is ever happy when he's at peace. The main reason he's in the business is to eliminate his enemies.
I've always done music with so-called thug- or gangster-type lyricists. I've always been associated with that because I'm from the West Coast.
We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.
The great attraction to 'American Gangster' is these two great characters who are absolute paradoxes within their own sphere.
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