- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gangster Quotes
Lines on gangster style, ambition, and playing against type.
These quotes explore the gangster image from several angles, including an actor cast against type and a performer who insists the label has nothing to do with dress or genre. The idea of shaping your own image continues in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Greenwich Village
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- Nov 07, 2020
Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad 'Joey,' Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his bloody revolution against the Mafia.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody who is anyone wanted to meet a real life gangster, and here's Joey Gallo hitting the scene. What more could you want with a gangster? He looked the part. They call it gangster chic. He dressed like the 'Reservoir Dogs' - black suit, white shirt, skinny black tie. You know, he had the whole look down. And the big shades, of course.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know the slow-motion walking shot in 'Reservoir Dogs?' That was in the Tommy Udo tradition. That strut, that way of wearing your suit, is what I think gangster chic is.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When did the black community say we should all look like criminals?
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Giving a record company an album is like giving a gangster your baby or something.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got into an argument with someone because I said I think 2Pac will be regarded as a great poet. They said he was just a punk gangster. People said the same thing about Francois Villon, and he's now considered the best French Romantic poet of all time.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Terre Haute. They used to call it 'Terrible Hut' because it was so wide open. Gambling, red light district, speak-easies. I entertained for all the gangsters. Can't name a gangster that didn't come into the place where I worked.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.
- Bored
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a mobster. It has dead spots, boring plotlines, weak episodes. Characters develop slowly, or don't. Like viewers, a gangster might get bored, fade out of the action, then come back to find none of his debts forgotten.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember my first thing was 'CSI: Miami.' I played a Cuban gangster. And that was it. I was like, 'Wow, I don't have to clean toilets.' I could actually dress up and get paid equivalent to that. So that was my introduction into the Hollywood industry.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Homeboy Industries is a healing center for broken children. I was a broken child, and they showed me how to put all those pieces back together. It's not about being a gangster. It's about being a man or a woman trying to recover and live better.
- East Coast
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- Nov 07, 2020