Capone Quotes
The public image of a mob legend
These quotes compare how actors have portrayed Al Capone on screen, debating whether a performance captures a real person's essence no matter which decade it's set around.
The Capone gang was actually a public utility; it supplied what the people wanted and demanded.
Everybody owned stock in the Capone mob; in a way, he was a public benefactor. I remember one time when he arrived at his box seat in Dyche Stadium for a Northwestern football game on Boy Scout Day, and 8,000...
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Did Robert De Niro actually look like Al Capone in 'The Untouchables?' Or did Van Kilmer look like Jim Morrison in 'The Doors?' No. It's the core, the essence of the personality that matters.
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Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.
The Capone era. That was my time. Capone was a big baseball fan. He'd walk into the ballpark like the president walking in today, with bodyguards all around him.
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Other lines describe how thoroughly Capone's organization embedded itself in public life at the time, even showing up at a Boy Scout Day football game, offered here as historical observation rather than approval.
