Crime Life Quotes

This Hollywood ain't no good, I would rather be like Robin Hood.

Nothing about Tony Soprano's life was glamorous. He was never somebody I wanted to be. His life was terrible.

Crime is a job and it's boring. It's also unpleasant.

I always felt, you don’t have a good time doin crime, you may as well find a job.

Not after the big bust in '92, there's no big drug lifestyle anymore. I can't talk about it. Pretty ugly.

Let me tell you something. When I was young, I was an armed robber. I did robberies. And there's no adrenaline rush like that. When you're using drugs and doing robberies, it's hard to distinguish whether you're doing robberies to support your drug habit, or doing drugs to support your robbery habit.

Where I grew up, in New Jersey, there was a lot of organised crime activity. It was a part of life.

I jack, I rob, I sin. Aw man, I'm Jackie Robinson 'Cept when I run base, I dodge the pen

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

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

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

I didn't have to leave my neighborhood to be surrounded by the things that 'Super Fly' is about. It was easier than most scripts because it was about an environment that I knew.

I earned my share same as everybody. Well, I coulda got killed same as everybody. And I'm wanted by the law same as everybody. I'm a nervous wreck, and that's the truth. I have to take sass from Miss Bonnie Parker all the time. I deserve mine.

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

PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.

I haven't been part of the criminal world.

I think we're fascinated by gangsters and that whole lifestyle and crossing the line. We get sort of stuck in our normal lives, if you will, and you want to be bigger than life and I think people somehow live through these sorts of characters.

I was never really that worried about being a member of the Sopranos crew. I think it looks kind of fun to not have to work, to not have to take crap from anybody. And then there's the reality check in there, which is that you do have to work, you do have to take crap from people, and you can fail, and all these other things.

The first song is called 'London.' It's about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime.

I'm bout that fast money, money ain't got no patience. But if them boys come run like you on probation.