Quotes from Abraham Polonsky

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

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

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

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

I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!

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.

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

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. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?

Money has no moral opinions.

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

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