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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies were all like that. They'd create little teams to go out and shoot films.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've played some gangster roles, but that's obviously not me. When you're an Italian-American New York actor, it's just an easy way to get cast.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
After a show, I'll get the 16-year-old white kid whose lip is pierced, his head is shaved and his parents hate him, and the young gangster from the screwed-up 'hood, and they say that now they realize there's someone out there who thinks like they do.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When this ugly gangster told Joe Glaser that he must take the name of Armstrong down, off of the marquee, and it was an 'order from Al Capone,' Mr. Glaser looked this cat straight in the face and told him these words: 'I think that Louis Armstrong is the world's greatest, and this is my place, and I defy anybody to take his name down from there.'
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't only like rap music. There's everything from R&B to crazy gangster rap, hip hop... everything! But it all blends together nicely. It's like a magical music rainbow.
- Nov 07, 2020
Where is Conor? He wanna fight with a bus. I want to fight with a real gangster. Iaquinta, thank you so much.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even after 'Gangster' being a success, I was considered a B-grade actress and was a sidekick, even though I was good at what I did, and was jobless for two years.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never quite lived up to the image of the black man as I saw it growing up. I was never listening to the right music at the right time or wearing the right clothes at the right time. I was still listening to Michael Jackson, and everyone had sort of moved on to gangster rap. Alanis Morissette when everyone else was listening to En Vogue.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Godfather' is the talismanic giant that hangs over everything in the gangster genre.
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- Nov 07, 2020