D’you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
ABRAHAM POLONSKYD’you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
ABRAHAM POLONSKYA holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there’s nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYYou must never throw away things that are worth good money.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYI want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYKids win this’n’that every day. Thousands of them. One out of a hundred fights professionally. One out of a thousand’s worth watchin’, one out of a million’s worth coffee and doughnuts.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYWhat do you mean “gangsters”? It’s business.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYIndians don’t last in prison. They weren’t born for it like the whites.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYThis is Wall Street, and today is important. Because tomorrow, July 4th, I intended to make my first million dollars–an excitingday in a man’s life. The enterprise was slightly illegal.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYFirst of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors, words, and objects in space.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYIt’s perversion. Don’t you see what it is? It’s not natural. To go to great expense for something you want, that’s natural. To reach out to take it, that’s human, that’s natural.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYI don’t take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!
ABRAHAM POLONSKYIt’s an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That’s what directing is.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYA holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYDo you know what it’s like to love and be alone?
ABRAHAM POLONSKYWhat are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYMoney has no moral opinions.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY