Walter Winchell Quotes

And Alpo ordered guys to slaughter guys, and the whole Harlem was in tears when Rich Porter died.

My daddy was a carpenter that worked with the Jones boys, who are the most notorious in America. The black gangsters, you know, they were no joke. And he was their master carpenter. He used to build their homes, and all I saw when I was 11 years old were dead bodies and tommy guns and stogies, and backrooms, you know, Drexel Wine and Liquor, with the big piles of money underneath.

What do you mean "gangsters"? It's business.

I think we have always had a fascination for gangs and gangsters, and I think we always will.

My family had been involved in gangs since the 1970s.

The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.

I know these dirty cops that'll get us in if we murder some Wop.

Me, myself, I was a part of gang bangin', you know what I'm sayin'?

I wanted to dismantle the bollocks that there's a military structure to a gang, with a leader, second leader, the good looking one, first babe, second babe. It's far more arbitrary than that and their values shouldn't be romanticised. They aren't something you want to sign up to.

Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.

What I learned about the mob wasn't through lectures at the academy.

Jacare is a gangster. He's been in the game for a long time.

For most of the guys, killings got to be accepted. Murder was the only way that everybody stayed in line. You got out of line, you got whacked. Everybody knew the rules.

The Italian mafia, they're very [into] construction. They're in a whole different way of operating than they did back in the '20s.

We should not let this be like the history of the mafia which was allowed to grow into a nationwide organization which infiltrated and corrupted so many areas of society for such a long period of time.

I had a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, promotions. l might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate a racket in three city districts. The Marines operated on three continents.

Hell, I'm not saying I'm an angel, but when it came to dirty tricks I couldn't hold a candle to the Irish Mafia.

I knew most of the people there who ran the places, a lot of wiseguys. They're all gone now. All good people.

The Mafia has higher standards than the Catholic Church hierachy because if their members were "raping children, they'd off them."

How can I be a gangster, if I worked for the KGB? It is absolutely ridiculous.

Some of my friends became gangsters. You became a gangster depending upon how fast you wanted a suit. Gangsters weren't the stereotypes you see in the movies. I knew the real ones, and the real ones were out for big money.

Never piss off a gangster.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

I don't know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I don't know any criminals.

I definitely would like to do something serious. Not like a love story, but serious like maybe a gangster or a mobster. A gang or a mob movie would be great.