13 Budd Schulberg Quotes

Budd Schulberg quotes

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

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

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

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

4. 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.

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

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

7. Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

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

9. 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.

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

11. 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.

12. Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?