Budd Schulberg famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?
-- Budd Schulberg

#Community
Silence is the sure sign that youre on your way out in Hollywood.
-- Budd Schulberg

#Silence #Hollywood #Way
You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going
-- Budd Schulberg

#Tough #Conform #Expected
You can't eat your friends and have them too
-- 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

#Sports #Thinking #Games
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

#Comfort #Fighter #Dignity
I coulda' had class. I coulda' been a contender! But instead I got a one way ticket to Palookaville.
-- Budd Schulberg

#Class #Way #Tickets
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

#People #Littles #Consistent
Iâ€™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 donâ€™t entertain, nobodyâ€™s listening.
-- Budd Schulberg

#Listening #Novelists #Said
Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.
-- Budd Schulberg

#Fighting #Dozen #Way
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

#Fear #People #Mind
As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.
-- Budd Schulberg

#Hate #Boxing #I Hate
Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.
-- Budd Schulberg

#Car #Driving #Brake
Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.
-- Budd Schulberg

#Nuts #Stuff #Conscience

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