Mobster Quotes - Page 2

• Las Vegas turns women into men and men into idiots.

  Bugsy Siegel

  Men, Vegas, Idiot

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We don't break our captains. We kill them.

  Vincent Gigante

  Captains, Break

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• One of the things I like about being a celebrity is that you can get away with murder. Not just metaphorically, literally. Remember that annoying blond dog reporter at E News used to talk smack about me? I paid two mobsters five million dollars each to throw her off the Stratosphere tower in Las Vegas.

  Zach Braff

  Dog, Vegas, Two

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• Four fifty-four for gas... because we have nobody that calls up OPEC... and say, [mobster voice] 'That. Price. Better. Get. Lower. And it better. Get. Lower. Fast.'

  Donald Trump

  Voice, Four, Fifty

  "The 25 'Best' Quotes of CPAC 2011" by Roy Edroso, www.esquire.com. February 13, 2011.

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• Vote early and vote often.

  Al Capone

  Witty, Powerful, Humorous

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• 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

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• I can't stand squealers, hit that guy!

  Albert Anastasia

  Guy, That Guy, I Can

  "Biography/ Mini Bio". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Marlon Brando

  Movie, Film History, Hollywood Films

  "Fictional character: Don Vito Corleone". "The Godfather", www.imdb.com. March 14, 1972.

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• We took care of Kennedy

  Sam Giancana

  Care

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• Italians in particular are seen as either benign and child-like (the sweet old nonna with her meatballs), menacing mobsters, or hyper-sexualized housewives and gigolos; the kind of nourishment I'm looking for doesn't lie in any of these stereotypes.

  Christopher Castellani

  Sweet, Children, Lying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Mobster stories are always a harder sell for me. I don't romanticize organize crime the way others do, though I can be swayed.

  Hank Stuever

  Stories, Way, Crime

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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

  Joe Pesci

  Mean, Mafia, Clown

  "Fictional character: Tommy DeVito". "Goodfellas", www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• Instead, I cut him. Not deep, but there was enough of a sting in the wound to remind him of what I'd done to the dwarven mobsters in the parking lot - and that I wasn't just some chick with a knife who looked good in black.

  Jennifer Estep

  Cutting, Knives, Black

  Jennifer Estep (2011). “Spider's Revenge”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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

  Terry Gilliam

  Silly, Violent, Wells

  "Terry Gilliam’s Three-Reel Circus". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 16, 2009.

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• I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Mario Puzo

  Movie, Hollywood Films, Film History

  The Godfather ch. 1 (1969)

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• 'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a mobster. It has dead spots, boring plotlines, weak episodes. Characters develop slowly, or don't. Like viewers, a gangster might get bored, fade out of the action, then come back to find none of his debts forgotten.

  Rob Sheffield

  Character, Bored, Debt

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• I've seen many lives destroyed. I've seen more people have problems with gambling than I have with drugs and alcohol. And there are some serious consequences if you get in over your head.

  Michael Franzese

  Gambling, People, Alcohol

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