Do you know what it’s like to love and be alone?
ABRAHAM POLONSKYWhat are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
More Abraham Polonsky Quotes
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I don’t take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up.
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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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D’you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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If you don’t get killed, it’s a lucky day for anybody.
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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.
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I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
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Indians don’t last in prison. They weren’t born for it like the whites.
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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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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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What do you mean “gangsters”? It’s business.
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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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I’ll kill you with my own hands rather than let you put the mark of Cain on my brother!
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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Today in Germany, everyone is being watched–even the watchers.
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