Mobster Quotes

The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its dumbest member divided by the number of mobsters.

And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.

We took care of Kennedy

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.

Never piss off a gangster.

Back before 'Brick,' I wrote a short film that I never ended up shooting: hit men in the present who work for a mob in the future who send their victims back in time. A guy is sent his future self, he lets him run, and the whole short was them chasing each other across the city. That sat in a drawer for 10 years until after I made 'Brothers Bloom.

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse.

If I hadn't made it as an actor, I might have wound up a hood.

I love Goodfellows and I love Nick Palleggi, but no, it's The Godfather, 1 and 2.

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

Everybody who is anyone wanted to meet a real life gangster, and here's Joey Gallo hitting the scene. What more could you want with a gangster? He looked the part. They call it gangster chic. He dressed like the 'Reservoir Dogs' - black suit, white shirt, skinny black tie. You know, he had the whole look down. And the big shades, of course.

I think we've always been fascinated with the idea of the romantic outlaw. John Gotti could be in one instance a charismatic, kind and loving family man, and in another, deadly to his enemies. The opportunity to tell the true story of Gotti with John Travolta is a director's dream.

'Notting Hill?' Does that poke fun at being British? Maybe it does. In 'Mickey Blue Eyes,' that's kind of the point: the clash of worlds, the unlikely combo of a respectable Englishman and a mob guy. If you take out the Britishness, you don't really have much.

Before you lost your mind, how did you make a living?" "I was a hitman for the Mafia. Are you done crying yet?" "I wasn't crying! And I wish you were a hitman because, if I had money, I'd hire you right this minute to knock yourself off.

I think Ray Liotta in 'Goodfellas' is the best ever. Given that it was two hours, it was a little bit more theatrical, and I mean that in the most positive way.

With wiseguys, you don't know a guy by his name, only by his nickname. You never asked a guy for his last name.

I'd love to play a gangster but I think people might say I looked a bit too young and cheeky to play a character who'd just blown someones head off!

I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown?

I am originally from Indiana. I know what most of you are thinking: Indiana - mafia.

Bugsy Siegel. The mobster with the beautiful blue eyes.

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.

I thought, how do you confuse violent Russian mobsters? Well, by being silly!

The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.

Melissa Barak, an ex-City Ballet dancer and sometime choreographer, has put together an unspeakably dopey and incompetent mess called 'Call Me Ben,' combining ultra-generic dance, terrible dialogue and disastrous storytelling, about the founding of Las Vegas by the gangster Bugsy Siegel, who insists, violently, on being addressed as 'Ben.'