Top 111 Gangsters Quotes & Sayings

My mum was a bookies' runner at nine years old and my dad's uncles were Peaky Blinders and gangsters.

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

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

Gangsters lived in the neighborhood. They weren't apart from it. Their relationships with people were both benevolent and scary.

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

Some of my friends became gangsters. You became a gangster depending upon how fast you wanted a suit. Gangsters weren't the stereotypes you see in the movies. I knew the real ones, and the real ones were out for big money.

How many gangsters you know, from Al Capone up to John Gotti, been gay?

Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.

Being from Texas, I didn't know anything about gangsters and people like that, I had no fear of people.

Usually when you hear about rappers in Asia, they always try to be like gangsters and stuff like that and I don't get it.

When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.

'The Godfather' changed the way gangsters acted.

Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.

I reread Mesrine's book every year because the way the story is told is fascinating. Today, we don't have gangsters like Mesrine - he had humor.

I've been into clothes since I was a kid, going to garage raves and seeing all the Tottenham gangsters wearing Moschino and Versace; I just always had a passion for it.

I knew so many gangsters, and I call on that experience with them for characters.

Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

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

Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire.

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

If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight.

George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies.

I'm a gangster, and gangsters don't ask questions.

Cannabis never killed anybody and it's use is widespread. You can"t stop it. The law defeats itself because all the efforts to stop drugs coming in only drives up the prices and then gangsters move in to push the drugs. If they legalised there wouldn't be gangsters and huge profits...The police are gradually decriminalising the possession of cannabis because they realise there's not much point prosecuting

What do you mean "gangsters"? It's business.

A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality - but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage.

Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs... gangsters who lust after fortunes and power.

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

I decided that if the police couldn't catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who could.

Terre Haute. They used to call it 'Terrible Hut' because it was so wide open. Gambling, red light district, speak-easies. I entertained for all the gangsters. Can't name a gangster that didn't come into the place where I worked.

Night gangsters! For this crime I will exact a thousand fold revenge!

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

It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.

Dance bars are seen as the place where gangsters go to relax and spend money.

Since the gangsters are glamorized, by extension the women they sleep with are also necessarily glamorous.

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

Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake 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.

As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.

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

If Dr. Mahathir thinks that by ordering the police to act like gangsters he will frighten the people from supporting this reformation movement, he is dreaming. I think he has cut himself off from reality.

Gigantic sums are now required to maintain prisons and insane asylums and protect the public against gangsters and lunatics. Why do we preserve these useless and harmful beings? The abnormal prevent development of the normal.

My strangest media moment a photo session they all had dressed up like 50 gangsters. That was pretty cool. We have to get some more of those kind of photos sometimes.

When you're a Scientologist it's like the movie Goodfellas, where the gangsters hang out with only other gangsters. We only hung out with each other, so we knew we were saving the world.

We are a democracy and we don't believe in just hunting down gangsters and killing them. We believe in trying to find the gangsters and bring them back for trial, and give them a trial under rule of law. That's what democracies do.

Gangsters live for the action. The closer to death, the nearer to the heated coil of the moment, the more alive they feel. Most would rather succumb to a barrage of bullets from a roomful of sworn enemies than to the debilitation of old age, dying the death of the feeble. A gangster becomes as addicted to the thrill of the battle and the potential to die in the midst of it as he does to he more attractive lures in his path. In his world, the potential for death exists every day. The better gangsters don't shy away from such a dreaded possibility but rather find comfort in its proximity.

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

Rental formal wear of the sky-blue, brocade and shiny varieties is favored by upwardly mobile young gangsters drafted as groomsmen for weddings.

I think it's kinda funny that all these rappers that used to be gangsters and thugs are telling us not to download their music from the internet, because that's stealing. Wow talk about ironic.

I've only played gangsters and cops, and I always have to be serious.

People generally thought that sharks are dumb eating machines. After some study, I began to realize that these 'gangsters' of the deep had gotten a bad rap.

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

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

Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.

Playing gangsters is great. They usually dress you sharp. And you have a license to pretty much bully anybody. I mean, I wouldn't dare do that at home. My wife will give me a back hander.

I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters.

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

Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.

When you're a kid and you see gangsters living the life, you kind of want to be like that.

Before we made films about gangsters, everything was about the royal families. They contain so much drama.