A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn’t have said.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYYou must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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But to get your pleasure from not taking, from cheating yourself deliberately like my brother did today, from not getting, from not taking.
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If you don’t get killed, it’s a lucky day for anybody.
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Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people…And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do.
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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.
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It’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.
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What do you mean “gangsters”? It’s business.
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I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
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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.
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up.
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Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal.
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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.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
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D’you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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Today in Germany, everyone is being watched–even the watchers.
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