American Gangster may refer to:
- American Gangster (film), a 2007 film by Ridley Scott, starring Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, and Josh Brolin
- American Gangster (album), the Jay-Z album inspired by the 2007 film
- American Gangster (TV series), a documentary series on the BET network
- The American Gangster, a 1992 documentary film on early 20th century American gangsters
- The American Gangster, nickname of mixed martial artist Chael Sonnen
Famous quotes containing the words american and/or gangster:
“The moment when she crawled out onto the back of the open limousine in which her husband had been murdered was the first and last time the American people would see Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis crawl.... She was the last great private public figure in this country. In a time of gilt and glitz and perpetual revelation, she was perpetually associated with that thing so difficult to describe yet so simple to recognize, the apotheosis of dignity.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“The truth is that every intelligent man, as you well know, dreams of being a gangster and ruling over society through violence alone. Since this is not as easy as the novels would have us believe, people generally resort to politics and join the cruelest party.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)