Mean Streets Quotes:

I like Harvey Keitel. I liked him in Mean Streets. Im a fan.

- Richard Ben-Veniste

topic: Mean, Fans, Mean Streets, Harvey

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid...He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world

- Raymond Chandler

source: Raymond Chandler (2014). “The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words”, p.69, Vintage

topic: Hero, Mean, Men, Being A Hero, Weathered

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

- Martin Scorsese

source: "Mean Streets". www.imdb.com. 1973.

topic: Home, Bullshit, Church, Mobster, Gangster Movie

I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.

- Raymond Chandler

source: Raymond Chandler (2014). “The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words”, p.100, Vintage

topic: Country, Home, Gun, Mean Streets

In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.

- Raymond Chandler

source: Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Simple Art of Murder”, p.23, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

topic: Art, Quality, Redemption, Mean Streets

Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient.

- Patti Smith

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Dirty, Mean, Humanity, Mean Streets, Vagabonds

It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes

- Oswald Chambers

source: Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

topic: Mean, People, Ordinary, Inbreds, Mean Streets

I'm an absolute fan of 1970s New York in films like 'Mean Streets' and 'Dog Day Afternoon.

- Guillaume Canet

topic: Dog, New York, Mean, Dog Days, Mean Streets

Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.

- Sara Paretsky

topic: Country, Mean, Magic, Breathtaking, Mean Streets

Mean Streets dealt with the American Dream, according to which everybody thinks they can get rich quick, and if they can't do it by legal means then they'll do it by illegal ones.

- Martin Scorsese

topic: Dream, Mean, Thinking, Mean Streets, Get Rich Quick

Equestrian and sailing are sports for people growing up on the mean streets of Connecticut.

- Craig Ferguson

topic: Funny, Sports, Growing Up, Connecticut, Equestrian

The first movie I saw where it convinced me I could be an actor was 'Mean Streets,' so whenever I see Robert De Niro and he says, 'Hi, Denis,' it's still a really big deal.

- Denis Leary

topic: Mean, Actors, Saws, De Niro, Mean Streets