#gangster

The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#gangsters #greatest #like #nations #smallest

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. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#area #dynamic #film #gangster #gone

I'd love to play a gangster but I think people might say I looked a bit too young and cheeky to play a character who'd just blown someones head off! ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

#blown #character #cheeky #gangster #head

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

— Beanie Sigel

#been #could #gangster #i #me

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. ↗

— Lord Acton

#control #few #frequently #gangsters #get

The lawyer with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun. ↗

— Mario Puzo

#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

I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that. ↗

— Edward G. Robinson

#another #book #east #east side #first

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

— Stanley Tucci

#consciously #far #gangster #i #many