Frank Costello Quotes

• No one gives it to you. You have to take it.

  Frank Costello

  Giving, Departed

  147 Copy quote

• We're all gonna die, let's act accordingly.

  Frank Costello

  Dies

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• When you decide to be something, you can be it. That's what they don't tell you in the church. When I was your age, they would say we can become cops or criminals. Today, what I'm saying to you is this: when you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference?

  Frank Costello

  Gun, Differences, Departed

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• The only one that can do what I do is me. Lot of people had to die for me to be me. You wanna be me?

  Frank Costello

  People, Departed, Can Do

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• Church wants you on your place. Kneel, stand, kneel, stand. If you go for that sort of thing, I don't know what to do for you. A man makes his own way. No one gives it to you. You have to take it. 'Non serviam'.

  Frank Costello

  Men, Giving, Departed

  144 Copy quote

• When you decide to be something, you can be it.

  Frank Costello

  Departed, Loaded Gun

  81 Copy quote

• Most men I know, pissed away their fortunes. I'm the only one I know, that made a fortune pissin'

  Frank Costello

  Men, Made, Fortune

  73 Copy quote

• Other kids are brought up nice and sent to Harvard and Yale. Me? I was brought up like a mushroom.

  Frank Costello

  Nice, Kids, Yale

  119 Copy quote

• You can learn a lot, watching things eat.

  Frank Costello

  Departed

  59 Copy quote

• There's no justice in this world.

  Frank Costello

  Justice, World, This World

  62 Copy quote

• A lot of people had to die for me to be me.

  Frank Costello

  People, Dies

  50 Copy quote

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