Jimmy Stewart Quotes

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

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

Who knows what is really going on within a criminal enterprise? Criminals

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

Between the money and the illegal merchandise, Bones was getting millions. No wonder he laughed at my salary. -Cat

I have such an image of a mafioso.

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.

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.'

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

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

You look at the descriptions of Whitey by law enforcement during his early years, and they sum him up pretty well. He was the same guy 40 years later; he just had $40 million more, and had committed 40 more murders.

Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster.

Most major criminals operating in this country do so because of relationships they have with politicians who allow them to operate.

A handbook for gangsters.

It’s a giant criminal enterprise, but at least it’s a state.

People love stories about the mafia: 'The Godfather,' 'American Gangster.'

If you think about the traditional mafia stories we grew up on, it is always about the death of criminal organisations - things like the 'Sopranos' - the last vestiges of once proud families subsumed by the modern era.

My dad wasn't a gangster, and he wasn't a criminal, but he sure liked to rub padded shoulders with them.

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.

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.

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

What good was being the king of the rackets in Newark, N.J., if you couldn't have DiMaggio at your dinner table?

'The Godfather' is the talismanic giant that hangs over everything in the gangster genre.

If you look at 'The Sopranos,' there's this notion of a criminal element on its last legs.

I know many businesspeople in Russia who have knowingly signed up to effectively compromise their values for their own profit motive to become part of this criminal apparatus in Russia.