Abraham Polonsky Quotes

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.

What do you mean "gangsters"? It's business.

A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up.

If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.

What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.

Today in Germany, everyone is being watched--even the watchers.

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.

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.

You must never throw away things that are worth good money.

Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.

I'll kill you with my own hands rather than let you put the mark of Cain on my brother!

Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?

I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.

A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.

I don't take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!

Money has no moral opinions.

Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people...And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do.