Welcome to our collection of Mafia Quotes, where we delve into the captivating world of organized crime and the iconic figures that have shaped it. The Mafia, with its enigmatic allure and notorious reputation, has long been a subject of fascination for many. From the shadowy underworld dealings to the intricate web of alliances and betrayals, the Mafia has left an indelible mark on popular culture, inspiring countless books, movies, and television shows.
Within these pages, you’ll discover a selection of quotes that encapsulate the essence of the Mafia ethos. These quotes offer insights into the mindset of those involved in organized crime, from the ruthless bosses to the loyal foot soldiers. Whether they’re delivering pearls of wisdom or chilling warnings, these quotes provide a glimpse into the complex dynamics of power, loyalty, and honor that define the Mafia world.
So, whether you’re a seasoned mob aficionado or simply intrigued by the mystique of the underworld, join us as we explore the words of the wise, the cunning, and the fearless in our curated collection of Mafia Quotes. Without further ado, let the journey into the heart of the Mafia begin.
The Monkees are like the mafia. You’re in for life. Nobody gets out. Davy Jones
Yo Gotti had some influence on me for sure. I would say Three 6 Mafia, too. Tay Keith
In all these years, I’ve always tried to emphasize and to promote the need to combat the Mafia. Because it is a cancer which is oppressive and which stifles everybody’s freedom and reduces the possibility for the areas in which it’s present to prosper and to develop. Sergio Mattarella
‘Our thing’ is turning into ‘my thing’ within the Mafia, just as the larger American society is facing the new realities of the ‘me generation.’ Joseph D. Pistone
Wherever there’s opportunity, the mafia will be there. Johnny Kelly
As one of the founders of Three 6 Mafia, I would like to see the group get back together, you know. But I am definitely thinking about it and would like to see it happen. Juicy J
You’ll see an erosion of rock ‘n’ roll for sure… if you’re playing a mainstream festival, you don’t want to be the rock guy when everyone else is talking about Swedish House Mafia. Michael Rapino
Mafia guys are all just insecure people who want their money. They’re like little seven-year old kids when they don’t get their way. I knew guys like that growing up in New Jersey. Ray Liotta
At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia. Philip Zimbardo
Professional wrestling was almost like a secret society when I started, like a Mafia, and it would destroy the Sheik to see how much that has changed. Rob Van Dam
TacOps is a unit which breaks into homes and offices to plant bugging devices. They get into mafia hangouts, they go into embassies, they go into terrorist hangouts, and they describe themselves as court-sanctioned burglars. Ronald Kessler
The best defence against mafia business is full declaration of assets and incomes. Milos Zeman
‘Shantaram’ is fantastic. An Australian prisoner escapes & joins the mafia in India? Sign me up. I love stuff that is based on true stories. Hasan Minhaj
The United States didn’t ban Italian immigration in the 1920s because a small minority of Italians became members of the Mafia, and the country is a richer place for it. Peter Bergen
In Italy, it is difficult to see a film in the original language because the voice actors here are a mafia. Vincent Cassel
When I came up, one of my favorite groups and producers was Three 6 Mafia. Metro Boomin
In the Nordic countries, there are hardly any societal problems, but we writers are bloodthirsty people like anyone else, so we have to quench this thirst with literature. If you live in a mafia state with lots of violence on the streets, you tend to write beautiful poetry. Hallgrimur Helgason
I’m from Indiana. I know what you’re thinking, Indiana… Mafia. But in Indiana it’s not like New York where everyone’s like, ‘We’re from New York and we’re the best’ or ‘We’re from Texas and we like things big’ it’s more like ‘We’re from Indiana and we’re gonna move.’ Jim Gaffigan
The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly. Dominic Cooper
My cousin put me on Three 6 Mafia and Playa Fly. My other big cousin put me on 8Ball and MJG. Young Dolph
You know, Castle’s the kind of guy that when he meets somebody, that’s a connection for him. He remains connected to the people that he meets. That’s the kind of guy he is, be they criminals, gangster rappers, mafia guys, art thieves, whoever it is, he nurtures those relationships. Nathan Fillion
International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places. Noam Chomsky
Yet there are film stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra who never allowed the mafia to dictate terms to them. But starlets like Monica Bedi used the mafia connection to win stardom and is now paying heavily. Raza Murad
I’m a big fan of Tiesto, and Swedish House Mafia are awesome. I absolutely want to work with them. Joe Jonas
’24’ and 20th Century Fox and Sky TV are not responsible for training the U.S. military. It is not our job to do. To me, this is almost as absurd as saying, ‘The Sopranos’ supports the mafia, and by virtue of that, HBO supports the mafia.’ Kiefer Sutherland
I am a physical retailer by trade – if your shop is burgled you don’t immediately think, ‘Is it North Korea? Is it the Mafia?’ But with cyber you don’t know initially whether you’re dealing with a state actor, as they call them, a small-time criminal, an insider. Dido Harding
As soon as I understood what was going on in San Francisco, which was in 1965 and ’66, I immediately left Chicago where I was working in a nightclub that was being shaken down by the mafia and the police for payments. I mean, it was a real thug world. Steve Miller
After ‘Chandni Bar’ there was a shutdown of such bars in Mumbai. After ‘Page 3’ people started avoiding such events. ‘Traffic Signal’ exposed the money flow through the mafia. I’m not apologetic about the brutal truth in my films. Almost 70% of my films are based on reality, and 30% I fictionalize or change to suit my film. Madhur Bhandarkar
One of the frustrations of the Republicans is that they have been mostly unsuccessful in equating the word Clinton with Mafia, which, to them, seems so head-smackingly obvious. Michael Wolff
When you hear ‘I Luv U,’ that’s me doing Three 6 Mafia. That actual track is a mix of ‘What’s Your Fantasy?’ by Ludacris and ‘Is That Yo Chick?’ by Jay Z. That’s my version of that track. Dizzee Rascal
The ANC must ensure that South Africa does not become a mafia state because once you reach that state, all the wheels have come off. Cyril Ramaphosa
I want to start the trans mafia one day. Hari Nef
Where previously the international underworld was a world of local, often-warring mafia territories, it has become globalised. The criminal has become corporate, and the corporate has become criminal. Organised crime has become very organised indeed. James Watkins
I don’t think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally. James Gandolfini
The Yanukovych regime is a mafia, which regularly threatens, imprisons, murders, or disappears political opponents as well as those whose possessions it covets. Robert Zubrin
But I never imagined that I could ever have a career in music. I always thought it was like a mafia, that you had to sell your soul and know the right people and be in the right place. Caroline Polachek
There are Mafia families that have bought magnificent houses on the North Shore, although not yet the great estates because they don’t want that kind of high profile. Nelson DeMille
People say, ‘Gee, you do a lot of mafia movies.’ I think I’ve done two, out of 60. James Caan
People love stories about the mafia: ‘The Godfather,’ ‘American Gangster.’ Jason Statham
One thing I would like to see in Vancouver and Canada is something similar to the PayPal mafia. They were all early employees of PayPal. They all had monster exits with PayPal, and they were able to take their winnings and form a syndicate that co-invests. Ryan Holmes
Unless you are absolutely positive that your wife has no connection to the Mafia, even three or four times removed, do yourself a favor and do not bet her in a poker hand. Joseph D. Pistone
I discovered that the world of the finest restaurants was something akin to the world of the Mafia. Marco Pierre White
A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They’d call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today. Giuliana Rancic
Some newspapers in Britain have become closer to these kind of mafia families. They wield an incredible power. They choose our governments, they choose our prime ministers, and they live above the law. Hugh Grant
I wasn’t aware of it at the time, but I was a big favorite with the Mafia. Brenda Lee
Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances. Steve Allen
When I’m back in New York – and this is a terrible thing to complain about – I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I’d like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It’s kind of like being in the Mafia. Anthony Bourdain
I grew up in a city, an Italian, knowing what the Mafia was. Joseph D. Pistone
Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock. Yelawolf
The racing bug is never going to go away. It’s like the Mafia. Davy Jones
Ultimately, I’d love to see a legacy company that has alumni that come out of it and go on to create other big things. A maple-syrup mafia, a HootSuite mafia. Ryan Holmes
The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider’s web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with the Ukrainian criminal heavyweights – the ‘family’ and its closest circle? Yulia Tymoshenko
I lived in mafia neighborhoods off and on when I was a kid. If you were in Little Italy, in East Harlem, in Brooklyn… Those neighborhoods were, in those years, dominated by mafia families. You knew it and you felt it, you know? Don Winslow
I’m very proud of being Italian-American, but people don’t realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the working man, the guy who’s the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver. Chazz Palminteri
The hip hop industry is most likely owned by gays. I happen to think there’s a gay mafia in hip hop. Not rappers – the editorial presidents of magazines, the PDs at radio stations, the people who give you awards at award shows. Fat Joe
Contessa, a.k.a. Baboushka, was a leader in the Russian mafia. Hardnosed, ruthless… very much her own woman. She’s a martial artist, marksman, and good with guns and gadgets as any good pulp spy should be. She’s supported by her constant companion Gyorgy Gyorgyov, an old friend of her family who was, in fact, her KGB handler and inventor. Antony Johnston
I never write about CIA conspiracies or the FBI or mafia or anything like that because I just don’t understand that world. But I think I do understand individual human harmfulness. Sophie Hannah
It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia. Tim Robbins
It’s very easy to copy Swedish House Mafia, or Avicii, or Skrillex, or whatever. People listen too much to each other and are too much inspired by each other. Hardwell
One thing I take great pride in is that my case was the one that started the decline of the Mafia. Joseph D. Pistone
I often talk about the PayPal mafia out of San Francisco, people that were in PayPal and got out of PayPal and continue to reinvest in other start-ups and create a huge pay-it-forward type of network there. Ryan Holmes
When you get made into the Mafia, they cut, prick your finger. And they take the blood and put it on the picture of a saint. Then they burn it. That’s the Mafia induction ceremony. Michael Imperioli
I was Donnie Brasco, the Mafia guy, in character. But in my head, I was a special agent. I never lost sight of who I was or why I was there. Joseph D. Pistone
My debut performance was on the railway tracks where I was asked to sing some Hindi songs in front of a mafia gang and around 20,000 more people were present. I sang in fear and danced too and luckily, they liked it. Kumar Sanu
We learned how to hustle and get money. You stack and plan the future ahead – get your house, your car, your wife and start your family. Pass the jewel on. We grew up under those rules like the mob… the mafia. Inspectah Deck
I’m a huge fan of mafia history – mostly the Italian mafia but also their associates, as well as Whitey Bulger and the Winter Hill Gang. Rob Van Dam
The Mafia exists in the American imagination because we want it to exist. Pete Hamill
A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday. Russell Baker
Italian-Americans are not the Mafia. Chazz Palminteri
People call me a Modi bhakt now. I used to be a Marx bhakt. I was part of what I now call the intellectual mafia. I used to believe in it, and worked for it. My eyes opened up when I began to travel, and meet different kinds of people. Vivek Agnihotri
My father’s best friend, Georgie Terra, was an Italian guy. The children and the cousins and nieces and nephews were children of the Mafia. Those were the children he grew up with. If you want to go to a safe neighborhood, go to where the Mafia is. Louis Gossett, Jr.
I always tell everyone wrestling is like the mafia, once you get in, you can’t get out. Gail Kim
Abortion isn’t a lesser evil, it’s a crime. Taking one life to save another, that’s what the Mafia does. It’s a crime. It’s an absolute evil. Pope Francis
My concern is not for the judicial system, but for the reality that the shark fin mafia of Costa Rica has a price on my head, and a Costa Rican prison would provide an excellent opportunity for someone to exercise this lethal contract against me. Paul Watson
In my real life, both my bosses are gay. On the ‘Real Housewives of Atlanta,’ Andy Cohen is gay, everybody at Bravo is gay – we call them the gay mafia. Over at ‘Glee’ and ‘The New Normal,’ my boss Ryan Murphy is gay. On the show, my boss, played by Andrew Reynolds, is gay in real life. I’m surrounded by all my gay bosses. NeNe Leakes
I don’t play ‘Farmville’… I play ‘Mafia Wars.’ Chamillionaire
Legislating morality doesn’t work (see: Prohibition). It produced the Mafia. John Densmore
Three-6 Mafia, we were always doing different kinds of things, and we like rock music, we like whatever – not saying they was rock, but they had a little rock-n-roll with some of their music, a little rock with it. Juicy J
The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia. Barbara Amiel
I hate ‘Mafia Wars’. Nolan Bushnell
Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB. Martin Cruz Smith
We don’t think only men can be powerful and strong. Behind the heads of the Mafia, the leaders of culture, there are always very strong women. European culture is a matriarchy, especially in the south. The women have a lot of power. Stefano Gabbana
Between ‘The Godfather,’ ‘The Sopranos,’ ‘Goodfellas,’ and the countless other mob stories that have been both critically and commercially acclaimed over the years, it’s not hard to see why a game like ‘Mafia Wars’ works. Jason Schreier
Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention. Douglas Horton
There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia. David Remnick
Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don’t know what’s going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that’s not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA. Stanley Crouch
Italy is a tough country to be a comedian in – I can’t invent stuff like this. Nearly eighty crooks in Parliament – that’s about one crook in twelve. It’s worse than Scampia, the most dangerous Naples slum, which is infested by the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia. There, the criminals are only one in fifteen! Beppe Grillo
I like Maroon 5, Swedish House Mafia and others. Jose Feliciano
Whether you’re a mafia guy or in advertising, you always end up going back to your family. Jerry Della Femina
I came to think that nobody from England could draw American comic books, because they were clearly all done by this sort of Mafia, all these guys with Italian and Irish names who had the whole thing sewn up. It was actually seeing a comic book drawn by Barry Smith, who was about my age, and English. Dave Gibbons
Three 6 Mafia have been around for a long time; we’ve made a lot of music. Anybody’s music can influence anybody. I’ve heard people say that our music has influenced such and such, and it could be true, and it could not. Juicy J
I lost 30 pounds to play my character in ‘The Mexican’, but people don’t take to skinny mafia men, and I don’t feel right when I’m thin. James Gandolfini
If you think about the traditional mafia stories we grew up on, it is always about the death of criminal organisations – things like the ‘Sopranos’ – the last vestiges of once proud families subsumed by the modern era. James Watkins
I feel like artists like Three 6 Mafia and 8 Ball and MJG reached a point in their careers where they were hot and underground. Tay Keith
You would go and play away in the south of Italy and there were Mafia people with their guns, it could be dangerous, I played in very bad areas – only the passion can push you on. Paolo di Canio
The Mafia is a question every time an Italian raises his head. Mario Cuomo
Putin set out to build a mafia state. He didn’t set out to build a totalitarian regime. But he was building his mafia state on the ruins of a totalitarian regime. And so we end up with a mafia state and a totalitarian society. Masha Gessen
When we were doing ‘The Sopranos’, I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It’s a code among sociopaths. David Chase
I didn’t invent the fear of sharks; it’s as old as mankind, and that – to take that responsibility would mean that Mario Puzo should take the blame for the Mafia. Peter Benchley
Yeah, I like Three Six Mafia and stuff like that. Dizzee Rascal