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Gangster Quotes

I’m just after getting off the phone with Daniel Kinahan. He’s just informed me that the biggest fight in British boxing history has just been agreed.

– Tyson Fury

British boxer thanking Irish gangster and mob boss Kinahan, who was attempting to re-brand himself as a boxing promoter. “A big shout-out to Dan,” Fury said.

We had an apartment on west side of Central Park. The rent was very reasonable. We found out later that it belonged to a gangster called Legs Diamond and it was a front to his headquarters. It was fine.

– James Stewart

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

– Irwin Winkler

Every human being has a bit of gangster in him.

– Binyavanga Wainaina

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.

– Birdman

I’m not a gangster, bro.

– ASAP Rocky

The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western.

– Armand Assante

I don’t think there’s much a person could say about me. My gangster’s never been on trial.

– Beanie Sigel

I like ‘The Usual Suspects’. Great film. I also like ‘Scarface’, films like that. Lots of gangster films. I really like watching all kinds of films, dramas, romance. I’ll watch comedies. I like Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Denzel Washington, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle. I’d like to meet them.

– Barkhad Abdi

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.

– Emraan Hashmi

I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies were all like that. They’d create little teams to go out and shoot films.

– Michel Gondry

When you’re 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.

– Daniel Espinosa

I’m the number-one fan of gangster movies.

– David Chase

I know nothing of what it is to be a gangster.

– Michael K. Williams

Even after ‘Gangster’ being a success, I was considered a B-grade actress and was a sidekick, even though I was good at what I did, and was jobless for two years.

– Kangana Ranaut

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

– Lil Wayne

My dad wasn’t a gangster, and he wasn’t a criminal, but he sure liked to rub padded shoulders with them.

– Jerry Heller

There are many people who think I’m actually a gangster or a mafioso, largely because of ‘Goodfella.’

– Paul Sorvino

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

– Orson Welles

The great attraction to ‘American Gangster’ is these two great characters who are absolute paradoxes within their own sphere.

– Ridley Scott

Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.

– Quincy Jones

I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.

– Stanley Tucci

Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster.

– Terence Winter