#gangsters

When a woman once asked Joe how he could come from such a magnificent home and such a good family and still become a gangster, Joe's answer was two-pronged: (a) he wasn't a gangster, he was an outlaw; (b) he came from a magnificent house not a magnificent home. ↗

— Dennis Lehane

#gangsters #family

Jimmy Sadd is the most evil man I’ve ever known. I mean really evil. I’m not talking about tough, or cruel – all the bosses are tough and cruel. You’ll never get anywhere in our world if you’re not respected. But Jimmy ... God damn, Bruno, getting involved with Sadd ... I’d rather do a deal with the devil himself. Sadd is worse. You’ll never get out.” George Hanson In The Shadow of Sadd. ↗

— Steen Langstrup

#gangsters #jimmy-sadd #scandinavian-mysteries #respect

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#all nations #always #gangsters #great #great nations

A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality - but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage. ↗

— Charlie Hunnam

#criminality #damage #friends #gangsters #i

Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies. ↗

— Brion James

#california #cowboys #ever #farm #gangsters

I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#car #chicago #colors #detroit #gangster

We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#charge #chicago #could #crime #ever

My strangest media moment a photo session they all had dressed up like 50 gangsters. That was pretty cool. We have to get some more of those kind of photos sometimes. ↗

— Kerry King

#dressed #gangsters #get #had #kind

The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#gangsters #greatest #like #nations #smallest

It occurred to him that thinking like this could explain why, even after all the jobs he'd pulled, he rarely had much money in his pockets. Sometimes it seemed like he stole money from one place just to give it away somewhere else. ↗

— Dennis Lehane

#money #philanthropy #money