‚Eastern Promises‘ is great.

The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere ‚stick‘ in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.

I like a drama.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I’m concerned about the recklessness of public policy that endangers people’s lives, especially in minority communities, where crime often is such a scourge.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one’s landlady.

I’ve always been fascinated with the stealing of innocence. It’s the most heinous crime, and certainly a capital crime if there ever was one.

A film is sort of binary – it either works or it doesn’t work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all.

I saw ‚Magic Mike,‘ and I thought it was great.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It’s fine to be a pop star. ‚Oh, it’s great, lots of fun, aren’t they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!‘

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

We don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

On ‚Think Like a Man,‘ they got the best out of me because they allowed me to bring my own cadences and opinions to the character that I was playing. I think we got the best of that particular character.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it’s not you going through it.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn’t mean I do it.

The worst crime is faking it.

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

I could hardly sit through ‚Frozen.‘ There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.

‚Mystic River‘ just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was great.

I don’t feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.

I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in all of human history.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

If you go to a bad movie, it’s two hours. If you’re in a bad movie, it’s two years.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

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.

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

I want to show audiences I can act.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

I can’t act!

Poverty is the mother of crime.

The only way I hear gossip is if it’s big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it’s, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!

I’m not a playwright.

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

I know a dramatic role is going to happen, but you just got to be patient, you know? It’s going to happen when it’s supposed to happen. I’m not rushing it. I’m not trying to make it happen tomorrow.

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.