Gang Quotes

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"I`m so busy trying to be other people. You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office. You can`t just be yourself because they don`t want to hire you. I am not a killer. I don`t beat my mother. I don`t do these things, but you have to walk in there and be these things because they don`t want to hire somebody who `pretends to be gay` or `pretends to be a gang member.`" - On auditioning.

- Clifton Collins Jr.

There was a sort of horror picture that I did called The Mutations. I think I did that solely for the money. I have six daughters, and they can be quite expensive, so one has to keep working and be able to pay the bills. I did get to work with Tom Baker. He`s a very charming, bright man and I liked him very much. I remember that movie as a very happy time; the whole gang of us were very friendly, and that means so much when you`re working together. But I surely wouldn`t list that film among my proudest moments.

- Donald Pleasence

I don`t want to keep doing all commercial stuff. But timing is everything. I got this one script where this girl wants to join a Latino gang and she gets raped. I can`t be doing that right now. I don`t think that`s appropriate.

- Lindsay Lohan

At home it`s all Batman and Star Wars and they do gang up on me. Sometimes I don`t want to dress up as Darth Vader or play train sets, so I`ll go out for a drink with the girls.

- Sadie Frost

I`m from the crime capital / And the air smells like death that eats everything that lives / If it was up to me / I would reunite every gang in the name of the fearless people that have fallen / I am a valiant man who`s just asking you to stop spilling innocent blood.

- Daddy Yankee

(on Tucker Carlson and his show): You may have heard that I went onto a TV show on CNN called "Crossfire" (1982), which I suppose is a debate show named after the stray bullets that strike and kill innocent bystanders during a gang fight. I said some pretty nasty things, most notably that their show was destroying America, and that he was a dick. He replied to me by saying, "You`re not being funny." I then said, "I know that, but on Monday I will go back to being funny, and your show will still blow."

- Jon Stewart

It`s so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs... we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics.

- Snoop Dogg

It really was the gang members which took advantage of the situation,

- Jack Ford

I don`t think it was race relations at all. It was some gang members who had real or imagined grievances and took it as an opportunity to speak in their own way over the march, in their park, their area,

- Jack Ford

The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members.

- Tom Hayden

I don`t have a monopoly on trying to solve the city`s gang problem, ... I`m open to new ideas and people trying different things. If Jackie is successful with this approach, then more power to her.

- Bill Bell

I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That`s what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.

- Eric Idle

Bobby and I have been to various reunions of Our Gang. We`ve been to like three or four reunions over the past 15 years or so. We were at one in Palm Springs, California.

- Tommy Bond

The reason that MGM hired Bobby for Our Gang was that they could look at him and say, cry, and he`d cry, and not many kids can do that unless they really want to cry.

- Tommy Bond

Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.

- Drew Carey

It`s weird. I never hid adolescence. I kind of bypassed it, and I`m a bit angry that I didn`t go through all the angst. I had the acne but no angst. From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of a Rough Gang - we went around and terrorised all the pupils in school. I was this really nasty kid, and then overnight I turned into the man I am now.

- Joseph Fiennes

From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of the Rough Gang - we went around and terrorized all the pupils in school.

- Joseph Fiennes

I was brought up with two sisters, so I do know about a three-way dynamic. It`s a complex one, because it`s easy for one to get left out and the others to gang up. In my family, we were all pretty up for it, but the dynamics would constantly change.

- Anna Chancellor

Each of my artists was affiliated with a gang at one point in their life- the Crips, Bloods and BGDs. This record will be the first time that members of these groups has come together peacefully and produced something really great, ... This project will further people`s minds- knowing that there are other options than that lifestyle- whether it be basketball, rapping, furthering your education or becoming a lawyer or doctor.

- Jason Terry

Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.

- Michael Badnarik

Nature shows suck ass, though cobras are pretty sweet. Pretty much any animal that has a gang named after it is pretty bad ass. I would go for an animal combo, like a bear that carried a cobra -- total unstoppable force. Give that thing wings and humanity is f***ed.

- Peter Wentz

The Monkey Wrench Gang

- Catherine Hardwicke

It`s not very surprising that gang members would lie to police. What`s surprising is that police would lie to gang members. What you end up with is this whole group of deceivers, operating in this shadowy underworld.

- Chris Collins

The best laid schemes o` Mice an` Men, Gang aft agley, An` lea`e us nought but grief an` pain, For promis`d joy! (The best laid schemes of Mice and Men oft go awry, And leave us nothing but grief and pain, For promised joy!)

- Robert Burns

Wherever there are rock `n` rollers, we`ll play. That`s what we`ve been doing for more than 30 years - rock `n` roll. It`s made me everything from an honorary mayor to honorary member of a motorcycle gang.

- Ronnie Hawkins

Lots of drug sales, gang violence. We have had our house shot four times.

- Christopher Smith

We understand the gang element here has automatic weapons, but we`re ready for that. And these New Orleans police have been pressed to the wall. They need and deserve support.

- Larry Black

The mother explained it to a teacher at the school who didn`t know these were gang colours, ... The kids were being recruited through their colours.

- Don Meredith

Then inside, she was shouting, ?Get on the (bleeping) floor!? The lady officer stuck her foot in the back of one of them (the Murphys) and said, ?What?s poppin??? That?s gang code for ?What have you got??

- Jennifer Johnson

This (crime) is particularly heinous, ... He`s small, and there`s no indication that he has any association with gang activity.

- John Harrington

We have no credible or reliable information that it`s valid, ... We contacted our county gang unit, the State Police gang unit, and they have no information to verify this.

- William Bailey

We are an educated family, so it`s very hard to fathom that this could happen. I don`t think my nephew was involved in any gang-related (activity). If he wasn`t at home, he was with his girlfriend.

- Bruce Clark

If I don`t speak up, who else is going to get stabbed? ... They don`t know their children are having to deal with criminal gang members in their 20s. What are these people doing stabbing teenagers?

- Carlos Cruz

I was the envy of our neighborhood touch football gang.

- Jim Parker

I was lucky I was never bullied at school - I had a great gang of friends.

- Eoin Colfer

I didn`t expect right after July 16th to be more in demand and more respected everywhere I went, from the West coast to the East coast, from hard-core gang members to corporate people with suits and ties on, black and white. It just secured everything for me. I`ve been on a nonstop crusade since July 16th. I haven`t had much time for family time, based on the outpouring of love and respect they have for Bernard Hopkins.

- Bernard Hopkins

Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide.

- Al Weed

However, don`t let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.

- Al Weed

Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly.

- Alex Klein

It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared.

- Alfred L. Kroeber

We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated.

- Andrew Fagan

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.

- Andrew Fagan

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

- Andy Gates

I offer all the riches I`ve made out of the panchayat-enforced gang-rape to the president in return for justice.

- Anja Thiessen

We finally got the gang back together. It was important for us to play together for a little bit leading into the regular season. We were practicing all week together as a unit, and I think that was good for us. We`re looking to raise it up another level heading into next week.

- Ann Barker

Thanks to the citizen`s tip and the surveillance of our Gang Unit, nine guns were taken off the streets Saturday night and will not be used in any further street crime. Specialized Investigations Division detectives are working diligently to investigate gang activity and are letting members know that their criminal activity will not be tolerated.

- Anthoney Robinson

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

- Bill Lovejoy