- Marriage
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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
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My core thing is gangster rap, but a lot of my music is melodic and carries a message of survival.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's funny how the ruthless, murderous gangster has really been romanticized by the media. I mean, I grew up watching the 'Godfathers' and 'Scarface,' and they were the coolest. They're just really interesting stories with great characters. They're rock stars.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I could totally be a gangster, but I could never be the kind of gangster that carries things out myself. I would have to be the kingpin that has my minions go and do the dirty bidding. I think I'd be pretty good at giving orders.
- East Side
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd love to play a gangster but I think people might say I looked a bit too young and cheeky to play a character who'd just blown someones head off!
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ice Cube is doing so great. He went from being this hardcore gangster rapper to this actor now. He's doing children's movies and all this stuff - he's rocking it.
- Tragedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience will be disappointed if there's not a tragic ending.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that was fascinating and frustrating about Pac was that he clearly knew better than to go down the gangster road that he went down. Pac knew - and he was right - that thug energy could be redirected into fearless positivity.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The primary school I attended in Shanghai was a very liberal one, established by scholars who had return from an education in France. The children of leading families were enrolled there, including the son of a well-known man believed to be a top gangster of the underworld!
- Public
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- Nov 07, 2020
Accosting somebody in public can be regrettable. Accosting a gangster can be hazardous.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music definitely gave me a focus. I was an artist without an outlet. Let's just say if I was not famous, I could have been infamous. I could've had my own episode of 'American Gangster.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020