Giuliana Rancic Quotes

I have such an image of a mafioso.

I wasn't aware of it at the time, but I was a big favorite with the Mafia.

It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles.

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

Wherever there's opportunity, the mafia will be there.

Sarfati. That's my real last name. I don't use it a lot because I got 'Lea So-fatty,' 'Lea So-farty' at school.

When I was 16 I'd watch 'The Godfather,' but I didn't think, 'Right, I'm going to go down the barber's and get some protection money off him.'

The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.

The rumors of Frank Sinatra's violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending up in concrete boots and sleeping with the fishes if I proceeded to write his biography.

I know nothing of what it is to be a gangster.

Gangsters lived in the neighborhood. They weren't apart from it. Their relationships with people were both benevolent and scary.

I got called Scarface at school.

Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.

It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse.

If someone labels you, it is very hard to shake it off.

On the rare occasions when my family talked about business, the subject was Kansas City's Boss Pendergast and his potential for muscling my dad's small gravel-and-sand operation.

I have made only two films on the underworld. I am not educating the people on the underworld.

As a teen-ager I played cards, shot craps, played pool, went to the track, hung around social clubs. I knew that some card and crap games were run by the mob, and some social clubs were mob social clubs. Even as a kid I knew guys that were here today, gone tomorrow, never seen again, and I knew what had happened.

Everybody says Jalen Rose is somebody I have to watch, even though he's a little older than me. It started back in high school. Everybody called me 'Little Jalen.'

I know sociologically that words, the power of the word, words stigmatize people.

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.

Once you get labeled, there's nothing you can do about it.

"Smooth Sailing" and "Hall of Fame" are my top two nicknames. "Cool Guy." "Jolly Jon." "Fun Jon." There's a lot of derivatives of Jon. "Cool Jon." Some people took "Smooth Sailing" and "Fun Jon" and made "Smooth Jon." That's a good one. It's just starting to catch on with the general public. Just every now and then, "Hey! Smooth Jon!" Or "You're Smooth Jon, right?!" People aren't quite sure. I'm like, "Yeah." "Okay, cool, that's what I thought!"

It's my real name. My mother's name is Rose Rock. It was the worst name as a kid to have. They called me Piece of the Rock, Plymouth Rock, Joe Rockid, and Flintstones. Now they call me Mister Rock.

I love Goodfellows and I love Nick Palleggi, but no, it's The Godfather, 1 and 2.