Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.

- Ann Voskamp

Even at drama school if there was a part of some eastern European thug it would be me.

- Alfred Molina

People called me a hoodlum and a thug. But they didn't tell you I was a carpenter, an architect, a stand-up comic - even a bartender. And a barbecue cook. But they didn't tell you that.

- Bobby Seale

Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.

- Ian Mckellen

I wanted to be a tough kid, so I thought, 'I'm going to move to New York, and I'm going to be a thug when I come out of there.'

- Jonny Weston

I like that show 'Ray Donovan' - I'm obsessed with that. He's in Hollywood, he's some kind of a fixer, but he's also kind of a thug. And 'Scandal,' the D.C. one with Kerry Washington.

- Kim Gordon

It was great to play an ex-marine cockney thug. All my roles are as different as the colours of the rainbow.

- Luke Treadaway

There's a fine line between physical and thug ball, and the Knicks have crossed the line on occasion.

- Marv Albert

When I was a kid doing television, they'd stick a leather jacket on me, and I would be the thug.

- Phil Daniels

I know some 'thugs,' and they know I'm the furthest thing from a thug. I've fought that my whole life, just coming from where I'm coming from.

- Richard Sherman

This question: 'How do I deal with a bully without becoming a thug in return?' has been with me ever since I was a child.

- Scilla Elworthy

Thug Life to me is dead.

- Tupac Shakur

A thug is someone who stands on his own. He lives by the decisions he makes and accepts the consequences. A thug is comfortable in his own skin. I wear mine like a glove.

- Trick Daddy