1. “Where is Conor? He wanna fight with a bus. I want to fight with a real gangster. Iaquinta, thank you so much.”
2. “You wanna play rough? Okay. Say hello to my little friend.”
3. “Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.”
4. “As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.”
5. “The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room.”
6. “I am a gangsta, Ms. Katie. I don’t take nothing from no one. I do what I wanna do.”
7. “There are only murderers in this room! Michael! Open your eyes! This is the life we chose, the life we lead. And there is only one guarantee; none of us will see heaven.”
8. “From now on, nothing goes down unless I’m involved. No blackjack, no dope deals, no nothing. A nickel bag gets sold in the park, I want in. You guys got fat while everybody starved on the street. Now it’s my turn.”
9. “Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.”
10. “You’re a gangster now. You’re on the other side. Whole new ball game. You can’t learn about it in school, and you can’t have a late start.”
11. “I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.”
12. “I want you to find this Nancy boy Elliot Ness and I want him dead, I want his family dead, I want his house burned to the ground! I wanna go out in the middle o’ the night and piss on his ashes!”
13. “All right, you proved your point. You broke into my vault. Congratulations, you’re a dead man.”
14. “Listen to me very carefully. There are three ways of doing things around here; the right way, the wrong way, and the way that I do it. You understand?”
15. “I don’t wanna be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.”
16. “Shoot first, ask questions last. That’s how these so called gangsta’s last.”
17. “I’m a culinary gangsta with a very spiritual side, so when I was introduced to the ‘spiritual gangster’ line, I had to have it.”
18. “Some people say I’m conscious, some say I’m a gangsta rapper – it’s just me doing me. I’m stomping in my own lane. I’m doing what I do.”
19. “You’ve got nothing. You’ve got nothing but talk and a badge.”
20. “The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.”
21. “I don’t tip because society says I have to.”
22. “It’s hard to tell whether there is more guns or flowers at a gangster’s funeral. I would rather have the undertaker’s privilege with some high-class gang, than to have a seat on the Stock Exchange.”
23. “The lawyer with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun.”
24. “If you want me to keep my mouth shut, it’s gonna cost you some dough. I figure a thousand bucks is reasonable, so I want two.”
25. “This here’s Miss Bonnie Parker. I’m Clyde Barrow. We rob banks.”
26. “I’m a dirty south goon – damn right, I ain’t no West coast gangster.”
27. “He doesn’t have the makings of a varsity athlete.”
28. “When they send for you, you go in alive, you come out dead, and it’s your best friend that does it.”
29. “I don’t think there’s much a person could say about me. My gangster’s never been on trial.”
30. “No gangster is ever happy when he’s at peace. The main reason he’s in the business is to eliminate his enemies.”
31. “I like the stink of the streets. It cleans out my lungs.”
32. “To me, the 90’s signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands.”
33. “Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.”
34. “When I say I’m going gangster, I’m working really hard at something.”
35. “We gotta flip the script on what a gangsta is – if you ain’t a gardener, you ain’t gangsta.”
36. “This country’s still growing up. Certain diseases, you’re better off having when you’re still young.”
37. “I have learned more in the streets than in any classroom.”
38. “You don’t make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullsh*t and you know it.”
39. “If you lose your house and your life savings to a broker, you’d probably throw them in the same category as the worst gangsters in history. Everybody’s definition of carnage and evil is different.”
40. “A gangster doesn’t think of himself a hustler, I assume he thinks of himself as a businessman.”
41. “I am an undisputed gangster. To me, that means playing by my own rules.”
42. “For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins. It’s like a morality car wash.”
43. “There’s no such thing as good money or bad money. There’s just money.”
44. “I’m not a gangsta rapper. I rap about things that happen to me. I got shot five times. People was trying to kill me.”
45. “I always think that politicians are worse than the baddest gangsters.”
46. “The FBI was formed because the gangsters were better armed, better financed.”
47. “If the KKK was smart enough, they would’ve created gangsta rap because it’s such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.”
48. “My dad wasn’t a gangster, and he wasn’t a criminal, but he sure liked to rub padded shoulders with them.”
49. “I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.”
50. “Attitude is attitude, whether you’re a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?”
51. “People love stories about the mafia; ‘The Godfather,’ ‘American Gangster.”
52. “Never respect anybody who doesn’t respect you back.”
53. “I don’t think any gay dude is gangsta, period.”
54. “I feel as if I have been blessed to undergo a transformation from ‘gangster’ to ‘redeemed sinner with gangster proclivities.”
55. “I knew so many gangsters, and I call on that experience with them for characters.”
56. “Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.”
57. “I play a lot of hard men and gangsters, and I’m not like that at all.”
58. “I never lie because I don’t fear anyone. You only lie when you’re afraid.”
59. “Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.”
60. “I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.”
61. “I don’t think my music really provokes that kind of energy that makes people want to grab AKs and rally through the streets. I don’t think my music is gangsta in that sense.”
62. “Accosting somebody in public can be regrettable. Accosting a gangster can be hazardous.”
63. “You need more than guts to be a good gangster. You need ideas.”
64. “Well, follow who you want to follow. It depends on what your fantasies are. You understand. People have different fantasies in life. The suburban culture. Always dream of being gangstas.”
65. “Three people can keep a secret only when two of them are dead.”
66. “The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western.”
67. “If you look at my acting career, I never played a role that was similar to anything my brother played. I was always cast as the bad guy or a gangster, because my brother didn’t do those kind of roles.”
68. “Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster.”
69. “Now if I ever, I mean if I ever, see you here again you die, just like that.”
70. “Gangsta to us didn’t have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It’s just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you’re not going to let nothing stop you.”
71. “In my world, of course, it don’t matter. You could be a gangster with a dress, you could be a gangster with baggy pants.”
72. “Every human being has a bit of gangster in him.”
73. “Who cares about shit people say that they don’t have the balls to say to your face?”
74. “You can fail in films because you don’t have the talent, or you have too much humility, or you lack ferociousness. I’m a gangster. If I want something, I’ll grab it.”
75. “See, ya are what ya are in this world. That’s either one of two things; Either you’re somebody, or you ain’t nobody.”
76. “Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.”
77. “You want me, you’re going to have to come and get me!”
78. “My uncle was a gangster in the real gangster days. I witnessed it, I felt it, I smelt it the situation, I was involved. It was like knowing a movie star.”
79. “I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.”
80. “For ‘Rangbaaz,’ I had put on weight to play the gangster and for ’83,’ I had to lose all that weight.”
81. “And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.”