Don’t you see what a black thing that is for a man to do? How it is to hate yourself?
ABRAHAM POLONSKYD’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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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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A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up.
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Indians don’t last in prison. They weren’t born for it like the whites.
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Money has no moral opinions.
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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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What do you mean “gangsters”? It’s business.
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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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I don’t take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!
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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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A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn’t have said.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good 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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D’you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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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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