When a woman once asked Joe how he could come from such a magnificent home and such a good family and still become a gangster, Joe's answer was two-pronged: (a) he wasn't a gangster, he was an outlaw; (b) he came from a magnificent house not a magnif...
I'm the number-one fan of gangster movies.
I know nothing of what it is to be a gangster.
Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.
I play a lot of hard men and gangsters, and I'm not like that at all.
Malone: You're gonna talk, pal. You're gonna beg to talk. Because somebody's going to talk! [walks out of the shack, and holds the dead body of a gangster Ness shot] Malone: Hey you, on your feet! We need you to translate this book! And you are going...
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
[repeated line] Frank Lucas: 20 Percent.
I've done, like, 45 movies, played 40 gangsters and five crooked cops.
[repeated line] Frank Lucas: My man.
Frank Lucas: Simple Simon-ass motherfuckers!
[first lines] Bumpy Johnson: Happy Thanksgiving!
Detective Richie Roberts: What the fuck is a microwave?
The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western.
There are many people who think I'm actually a gangster or a mafioso, largely because of 'Goodfella.'
I knew so many gangsters, and I call on that experience with them for characters.
I found 'Celebrity Gangster' intense, dramatic, a real page turner.
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.
The great attraction to 'American Gangster' is these two great characters who are absolute paradoxes within their own sphere.
