Noel Gallagher Quotes

'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.

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

I have such an image of a mafioso.

'The Godfather' changed the way gangsters acted.

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

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don't have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.

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

I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys' story.

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.

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

We do not fear you [the Mafia] any more. We will root you out from under every rock, from the dark places where you hide.

A handbook for gangsters.

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

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

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.

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.

There are many people who think I'm actually a gangster or a mafioso, largely because of 'Goodfella.'

A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They'd call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today.

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.

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

I never put my arms around John Gotti, Al Capone or Lucky Luciano.

People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.

'Godfather' was very classical - the way it was shot, the style - the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean.

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.