If being a gangster were a prerequisite to being a musician, there'd be a lot less cello music, for example.
I'm not a gangster, I don't have no desire to be hard.
It is the rule of law alone which hinders the rulers from turning themselves into the worst gangsters.
I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters.
Every human being has a bit of gangster in him.
If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight.
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.
I play a lot of hard men and gangsters, and I’m not like that at all.
Since the gangsters are glamorized, by extension the women they sleep with are also necessarily glamorous.
I don't think there's much a person could say about me. My gangster's never been on trial.
It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.
Never piss off a gangster.
An archetypal gangster is always at a remove. We can't get into his mindset.
How can I be a gangster, if I worked for the KGB? It is absolutely ridiculous.
Never will we be able to understand our times if we naively 'think' of this system of self Government as the work of a few gangsters or the creation of a pack of criminals we call a political party. The appeal of Socialism, Fascism and communism was principally negative; they were protests against a live and let live anything goes liberalism, a spineless indifference to causes, a failure to recognize that nothing was evil enough to hate, and nothing was good enough to die for.
I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.
No gangster is ever happy when he's at peace. The main reason he's in the business is to eliminate his enemies.
When you're a Scientologist it's like the movie Goodfellas, where the gangsters hang out with only other gangsters. We only hung out with each other, so we knew we were saving the world.
There are many people who think I'm actually a gangster or a mafioso, largely because of 'Goodfella'.
Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster.