American Gangster


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:

    “One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless.... They have put into practise the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.”
    —Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978)

    “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)