It’s always better to like a gangster from a distance anyway. Like a tiger cub in a cage. They always look soft and cute and warm behind those iron bars. Everybody’s happy, smilimg, waving, taking...

No gangster is ever happy when he’s at peace. The main reason he’s in the business is to eliminate his enemies.

Gangsters live for the action. The closer to death, the nearer to the heated coil of the moment, the more alive they feel. Most would rather succumb to a barrage of bullets from a roomful...

He had no tolerance for acts of betrayal or cruelty and lacked Angelo’s taste for the minute details of a business deal. He was a man totally in the moment, who knew only to respond...

A gangster must always be prepared to kill a friend. It is one of the many open secrets of the business, since it is the truest test of his ability to rule and command the...

The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western.

It’s funny, because I’ve never thought of myself as a Hispanic actor, like in ‘American Gangster,’ I’m playing an Italian. I’ve always been fortunate enough to have been allowed to play all these diverse roles.

She was not alone in her respect for him. Because he is more than a boss to people. He’s a religion for non-believers.

I’m trying to be a better gangsta, so I’m learning how to play the ukulele. I’m also trying to figure out how to rap a romance novel, like The Notebook.

When you understand the mechanincs of stress and master the techniques to manipulate someone’s fears and dreams, you will be powerful.

Well. We’re well and truly screwed now.

A true gangster can smell out a person’s strenghts and weaknesses in a matter of minutes, but what they can sense most of all, what their bodies are most attuned to, is the scent of...