Ross Kemp Quotes

It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols.

Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.

A handbook for gangsters.

There's something quite fascinating with crooks and criminals and all things against the law.

And Alpo ordered guys to slaughter guys, and the whole Harlem was in tears when Rich Porter died.

The Chicago mobs... They practiced their own perverted form of "survival of the fittest." Where the strong clawed their way to the top of a criminal empire. And the weak died in a hail of machine gun bullets.

It's funny how the ruthless, murderous gangster has really been romanticized by the media. I mean, I grew up watching the 'Godfathers' and 'Scarface,' and they were the coolest. They're just really interesting stories with great characters. They're rock stars.

I knew so many gangsters, and I call on that experience with them for characters.

The Mafia exists in the American imagination because we want it to exist.

My family had been involved in gangs since the 1970s.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

I don't know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I don't know any criminals.

It's been insane. From Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine the schizophrenia.

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

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

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.

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.

You see mob guys when you play in nightclubs. It's part of the protocol.

What I learned about the mob wasn't through lectures at the academy.

I have made only two films on the underworld. I am not educating the people on the underworld.

The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.

For most of the guys, killings got to be accepted. Murder was the only way that everybody stayed in line. You got out of line, you got whacked. Everybody knew the rules.

In Paris there are two dens, one for thieves, the other for murderers. The den of thieves is the Stock Exchange; the den of murderers is the Courthouse.

My family tree consists of drug dealers, thugs, and killers.

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.