#gangster

It occurred to him that thinking like this could explain why, even after all the jobs he'd pulled, he rarely had much money in his pockets. Sometimes it seemed like he stole money from one place just to give it away somewhere else. ↗

— Dennis Lehane

#money #philanthropy #money

That's basically the gangster code. Just be yourself. Just be you, dog. The easiest way to get your card plucked around a gangster is to be a fake. If we feel like you're trying too hard, if you're trying to act like you're from the street, you're in trouble. ↗

— Ice-T

#life

Having a persona people recognize, it's the thing that probably gets you paid the most - but it's also the thing that virtually every actor in the world doesn't want. 'Cause, like, no one would believe me if I wanted to play something ultra-realistic, like a gangster or something. ↗

— Robert Pattinson

#also #believe #cause #every #gangster

To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be. They play gangsters, nowadays, just like boys. They organize rackets. They plan holdups and practice karate. They will rape defenseless adolescents. They wear pants... Life has become impossible. ↗

— Alain Robbe-Grillet

#gangsters #girls #life

Sabi ko diba kakalimutan ko na siya. Nagawa ko naman eh. Pero why does it hurt? Bakit nung nakita ko si Kenji bumalik lahat ng pain and happiness? Parang sa araw araw mas tumitindi yung 'like' ko sa kanya. And now.. it's over. Everything.. was one sided. ↗

— Bianca B. Bernardino

#dating

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

— Chester Gould

#could #create #decided #fellow #gangsters

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. ↗

— Charlie Hunnam

#criminality #damage #friends #gangsters #i

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. ↗

— Michael Imperioli

#cast #easy #easy way #gangster #get

Americans accept that gangsters are running the government. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#gangsters #government #running

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. ↗

— Cesar Romero

#both #decided #factor #gangsters #george