Though I soon became typecast in Hollywood as a gangster and hoodlum, I was originally a dancer, an Irish hoofer, trained in vaudeville tap dance. I always leapt at the opportunity to dance in films later on.
Hip-hop was a big part of my life growing up, especially West Coast gangster rap. The reason I was able to listen to it so freely was that my mom couldn't hear any of it, so we would be driving along just blaring Too $hort's horrible misogynistic stuff, and my mom would just turn to us and say, "This is great. I can feel the bass. It sounds so nice. " And we're like, "Yeah, mom. We can feel the bass, too. "
I'm a gangster, and gangsters don't ask questions.
It wasn't just British gangster films that really did for me as a kid, personally, it was British films in general.
The Milkoviches are a much more extreme, much darker version of what the Gallaghers could be. The Gallaghers don't have a violent, sexually abusive, bigoted gangster for a father.
Never piss off a gangster.
The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western
I believe that all of us have gangster proclivities and greedy orientations that need accountability. That's why democracies are necessary. We have to have institutions to try to curtail the use of arbitrary power so that our greedy orientations and gangster-like proclivities don't get out of hand.
How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When did the black community say we should all look like criminals?
In Indonesian, the word isn't translating as "gangster. " It's "preman", which comes from the Dutch "préman", which of course the thing that's "freeman" in English.
50 Cent is a metaphor for "change". But originally it was a gangster from Fort Greene Projects named 50 Cent and I took the name when he passed and because he's not active, I thought it'd be cool to take it.
I'm the number-one fan of gangster movies.
I'm not a gangster, I don't have no desire to be hard.
I feel like your city - with hip hop in particular, because we're always beating our chest and shouting where we're from - your city is just as influential as your parents. Even the grimy, hardcore gangster rap from New York - KRS-One and Wu Tang, the stuff acknowledges it.
Your main contribution is spray painting your nickname on other people's things. And my cousin, who's a 'gangster', he's like, 'No, Tash, you don't understand; you throw a fat piece up there, that piece is yours. ' I'm like, 'No one thinks you own Costco. '
I'm not a gangster, bro.
If being a gangster were a prerequisite to being a musician, there'd be a lot less cello music, for example.
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
I think American audiences like gangster movies. It's part of the culture.
Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster.
