Robber Quotes

"...you can imagine, or think you can imagine, how to play almost anything - a drug addict, a bank robber, a killer - but the imagination doesn`t prepare you for being a mother and those particular feelings."

Juvenile hall, youth authorities ... I was in a lot of trouble. I grew up like the characters I`ve been playing. But would I do things differently? I honestly believe that circumstances create destiny, almost. There weren`t too many ways I could have done things. The only things that were available to me were either be a laborer or be a drug dealer. So I became an armed robber. It was a lot simpler.

Call me Sir if you like! Maybe people in America think being a Sir is a big deal. But I think we should all be misters together. I think the Sir thing slightly perpetuates one of our diseases in England, which is snobbery. And it also helps keep us `quaint,` which I`m not a great fan of. You don`t get much with the title anymore. That was all carved up by the robber barons in the Middle Ages.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron`s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene.

For the past two years, my brother has been portrayed as a bank robber, mentally disturbed, suicidal or worse, ... I can`t believe that (investigators) still have my brother on the hook for this. We know my brother; everybody knows he is not a bank robber.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber`s face