Top 24 Quotes & Sayings by Budd Schulberg

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Budd Schulberg.

Last updated on September 8, 2024.

Budd Schulberg was an American screenwriter, television producer, novelist and sports writer. He was known for his novels What Makes Sammy Run? and The Harder They Fall; his Academy Award-winning screenplay for On the Waterfront, and his screenplay for A Face in the Crowd.

American - Novelist | Born: March 27, 1914

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Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

Budd Schulberg

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Budd Schulberg

Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.

Budd Schulberg

I could have had class. I could have been a contender.

Budd Schulberg

As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.

Budd Schulberg

Hey, you want to hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.

Budd Schulberg

Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.

Budd Schulberg

Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood.

Budd Schulberg

You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going.

Budd Schulberg

Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.

Budd Schulberg

Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.

Budd Schulberg

You can't eat your friends and have them too

Budd Schulberg

You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going

Budd Schulberg

I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.

Budd Schulberg

Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it than if you compare it to a bloody brawl in an alley.

Budd Schulberg

You know what's wrong with our waterfront? It's the love of a lousy buck. It's making the love of a buck, the cushy job, more important than the love of man. It's forgetting that every fellow down here's your brother in Christ.

Budd Schulberg

Silence is the sure sign that youre on your way out in Hollywood.

Budd Schulberg

I coulda' had class. I coulda' been a contender! But instead I got a one way ticket to Palookaville.

Budd Schulberg

In English the expression 'ancient Greece' includes the meaning of 'finished,' whereas for us Greece goes on living, for better or for worse; it is in life, has not expired yet.

Budd Schulberg

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

Budd Schulberg

Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.

Budd Schulberg

I’d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things he felt needed to be said about the society while being as entertaining as possible. Because if you don’t entertain, nobody’s listening.

Budd Schulberg

Tell Papa I admire him but from now on I plan to admire him from as far away as I can get.

Budd Schulberg

I don't like the country. The crickets make me nervous.

Budd Schulberg