#mafia

I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican', but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin. ↗

— James Gandolfini

#feel #i #lost #mafia #men

There were a lot of terms you had to learn, as opposed to the shylock business where all you had to know how to say was "Give me the fuckin money". ↗

— Elmore Leonard

#humor #idiom #mafia #mob #movie-business

I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the working man, the guy who's the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver. ↗

— Chazz Palminteri

#being #built #bus #bus driver #community

God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals ↗

— Mario Puzo

#mafia #strength #life

È bello anche morire per le proprie idee... chi ha il coraggio di sostenere i propri valori muore una volta sola, chi ha paura muore ogni giorno. ↗

— Paolo Borsellino

#courage #life #courage

Groaning, he gripped his fists in the wild stuff. “Contessa.God, Contessa.” She straightened, changing the angle, changing the pleasure. She shook her hair back and undulated. She was a contessa.A princess.No,a queen. ↗

— Christie Ridgway

#italian #love #mafia #queen #change

I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up. He called it his second smile. ↗

— Holly Black

#family #honor #life #loyalty #mafia

A mafia don could snap his fingers and somebody would snap my neck. But when I snap my fingers, people start dancing. Or at least my clones would.
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— Jarod Kintz

#dancing #family #fingers #mafia #people

He'd always been a man who followed his head and not his heart.The heart was just a bloody motor.The head was meant to drive ↗

— Mario Puzo

#love #mafia #life

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances. ↗

— Steve Allen

#bank #businessmen #checks #compromised #crooked