I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYDon’t you see what a black thing that is for a man to do? How it is to hate yourself?
More Abraham Polonsky Quotes
-
-
Indians don’t last in prison. They weren’t born for it like the whites.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY -
It’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 POLONSKY -
What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY -
But to get your pleasure from not taking, from cheating yourself deliberately like my brother did today, from not getting, from not taking.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY -
I don’t take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!
ABRAHAM POLONSKY -
First 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 POLONSKY -
Kids 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 POLONSKY -
A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY -
This 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 POLONSKY -
A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn’t have said.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY -
A 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 POLONSKY -
You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY -
Money has no moral opinions.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY -
Don’t you see what a black thing that is for a man to do? How it is to hate yourself?
ABRAHAM POLONSKY -
If you don’t get killed, it’s a lucky day for anybody.
ABRAHAM POLONSKY