Quotes by Budd Schulberg

About Budd Schulberg:

Budd Schulberg was an American screenwriter, television producer, novelist and sports writer. He was known for his 1941 novel, What Makes Sammy Run?, his 1947 novel The Harder They Fall, his 1954 Academy Award-winning screenplay for On the Waterfront, and his 1957 screenplay for A Face in the Crowd.
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First, no qualms. Not the thinnest sliver of misgiving about the value of his work. He was able to feel that the most important job in the world was putting over . In the second place, he was as uninhibited as a performing seal. He never questioned h...

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Never talk to waiters like that," Kit said. "Can I help it," he said, "if I only went one year to finishing school?" "It isn't manners," she said like a sensible schoolteacher quietly disciplining a small boy, "it just isn't smart." I thought of the ...

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

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I thought of Sammy Glick rocking in his cradle of hate, malnutrition, prejudice, suspicions, amorality, the anarchy of the poor; I thought of him as a mangy puppy in a dog-eat-dog world. I was modulating my hate for Sammy Glick from the personal to t...

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Very much on the defensive, I admitted that I liked to read. "Sure," Sammy said, "I never said I had anything against reading books..." "The publishers will be relieved to know that," I tried to insert, but Sammy was too quick for me and was already ...

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There was a lull. Sammy was staring across the room at George Opdyke, the three-time Pulitzer Prize winner. I was about to say he was lost in thought, but Sammy was never really lost, and he never actually thought, for that implied deep reflection. H...

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The principal furniture in Billie's mind was a good-sized bed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

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Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

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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 listenin...

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Author Bio

  • NameBudd Schulberg
  • DescriptionAmerican novelist and screenwriter
  • BornMarch 27, 1914
  • DiedAugust 5, 2009
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Novelist; Writer
  • AwardsLaurel Award For Screenwriting Achievement; Academy Award For Best Writing (Original Screenplay)