Michael Connelly Quotes

The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash.

I always knew I'd accomplish something very special - like robbing a bank perhaps.

I rob banks for a living, what do you do?

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

I've been thinking about a bank robbery my whole life.

All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it's happened I guess I'm just about the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy.

I never, in all my life, had anything whatever to do with robbing any bank in the state of Missouri.

What do you want me to do, rob a bank?

OK, boys; let's go make a withdrawal.

I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business.

Now nobody get nervous, you ain't got nothing to fear. You're being robbed by the John Dillinger Gang, that's the best there is!

You remember Huston's plan. I want it implemented on a thievery basis. God damn it. Blow the safe and get it.

You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.

I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals.

White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.

I do remember that I was very relieved that I did not have to go into a bank with them. I had, as you recall, I had already been brought into a bank before and it was better to be sitting outside.

If a bank is robbed by one of its employees, do you think the bank is corrupt? I don't think so. I think it's a victim.

I think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot.

The best way to rob a bank is to own it.

A handbook for gangsters.

Don't get me wrong. I don't mind playing bad guys. I want to play a bad guy. I want to rob a bank. I want to rob a bank in a film. I want to rob a bank in a film but do it with a gun - with a gun, not with a bomb strapped around me.

In my peaceful moments, I yearn to write a bank heist like the one in 'Heat.'

I've been in places that have been robbed.