Top 30 Budd Schulberg Quotes (2024 Update)

Budd Schulberg Quote: “Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.”

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

— Budd Schulberg

Budd Schulberg Quote: “Work hard, and if you can’t work hard, be smart; and, if you can’t be smart, be loud.”

2. “Work hard, and if you can’t work hard, be smart; and, if you can’t be smart, be loud.”

— Budd Schulberg

Budd Schulberg Quote: “As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.”

3. “As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.”

— Budd Schulberg

Budd Schulberg Quote: “You either go along with the system – conform to what is expected to be a hit – or you have very tough going.”

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

— Budd Schulberg

Budd Schulberg Quote: “I don’t like the country. The crickets make me nervous.”

5. “I don’t like the country. The crickets make me nervous.”

— Budd Schulberg

Budd Schulberg Quote: “Isn’t everyone a part of everyone else?”

6. “Isn’t everyone a part of everyone else?”

— Budd Schulberg

Budd Schulberg Quote: “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.”

7. “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

Budd Schulberg Quote: “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.”

8. “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

Budd Schulberg Quote: “I coulda’ had class. I coulda’ been a contender! But instead I got a one way ticket to Palookaville.”

9. “I coulda’ had class. I coulda’ been a contender! But instead I got a one way ticket to Palookaville.”

— Budd Schulberg

Budd Schulberg Quote: “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.”

10. “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

Budd Schulberg Quote: “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.”

11. “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

Budd Schulberg Quote: “You can’t eat your friends and have them too.”

12. “You can’t eat your friends and have them too.”

— Budd Schulberg

Budd Schulberg Quote: “Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.”

13. “Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.”

— Budd Schulberg

Budd Schulberg Quote: “When we left, the sun was taking its evening dip, slipping down into the ocean inch by inch like a fat woman afraid of the water.”

14. “When we left, the sun was taking its evening dip, slipping down into the ocean inch by inch like a fat woman afraid of the water.”

— Budd Schulberg

Budd Schulberg Quote: “The principal furniture in Billie’s mind was a good-sized bed.”

15. “The principal furniture in Billie’s mind was a good-sized bed.”

— Budd Schulberg

Budd Schulberg Quote: “I suppose it’s too bad people can’t be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.”

16. “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

Budd Schulberg Quote: “Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.”

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

— Budd Schulberg

Budd Schulberg Quote: “It made me uncomfortable. I guess I’ve always been afraid of people who can be agile without grace.”

18. “It made me uncomfortable. I guess I’ve always been afraid of people who can be agile without grace.”

— Budd Schulberg

Budd Schulberg Quote: “I noticed he was never too much of an egotist to take criticism when he knew it would help. It was part of his genius for self-propulsion.”

19. “I noticed he was never too much of an egotist to take criticism when he knew it would help. It was part of his genius for self-propulsion.”

— Budd Schulberg

Budd Schulberg Quote: “Tell Papa I admire him but from now on I plan to admire him from as far away as I can get.”

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

— Budd Schulberg

Budd Schulberg Quote: “Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.”

21. “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

Budd Schulberg Quote: “Silence is the sure sign that youre on your way out in Hollywood.”

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

— Budd Schulberg

Budd Schulberg Quote: “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.”

23. “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

Budd Schulberg Quote: “He was one of those magnificent fakes who could overwhelm himself with his own sincerity.”

24. “He was one of those magnificent fakes who could overwhelm himself with his own sincerity.”

— Budd Schulberg

Budd Schulberg Quote: “When Kit called me for the next meeting I was either not myself or too much myself.”

25. “When Kit called me for the next meeting I was either not myself or too much myself.”

— Budd Schulberg

Budd Schulberg Quote: “Nize baby, et op all de screenplay.”

26. “Nize baby, et op all de screenplay.”

— Budd Schulberg

Budd Schulberg Quote: “We only hate the results of people. But people, Henry, aren’t just results. They’re a process.”

27. “We only hate the results of people. But people, Henry, aren’t just results. They’re a process.”

— Budd Schulberg

Budd Schulberg Quote: “There seem to be two kinds of self-conscious self-made men, those who like to dwell on the patriotic details of their ascent from newsboy or shoe-shiner at two bucks and peanuts a week and those who take every new level as if it were the only one they ever knew, rushing ahead so fast they are ashamed, afraid to look back and see where they’ve come from. One is a bore and the other is a heel.”

28. “There seem to be two kinds of self-conscious self-made men, those who like to dwell on the patriotic details of their ascent from newsboy or shoe-shiner at two bucks and peanuts a week and those who take every new level as if it were the only one they ever knew, rushing ahead so fast they are ashamed, afraid to look back and see where they’ve come from. One is a bore and the other is a heel.”

— Budd Schulberg

Budd Schulberg Quote: “You’re physically incapable of having friends. All you can ever have are enemies and stooges.”

29. “You’re physically incapable of having friends. All you can ever have are enemies and stooges.”

— Budd Schulberg

Budd Schulberg Quote: “I know the goddam trouble with me, I thought. Enough brains to see it and not enough guts to stand up to it. Thousands of us, millions of us, corrupted, rootless, career-ridden, good hearts and yellow bellies, living out our lives for the easy buck, the soft berth, indulging ourselves in the illusion that we can deal in filth without becoming the thing we touch.”

30. “I know the goddam trouble with me, I thought. Enough brains to see it and not enough guts to stand up to it. Thousands of us, millions of us, corrupted, rootless, career-ridden, good hearts and yellow bellies, living out our lives for the easy buck, the soft berth, indulging ourselves in the illusion that we can deal in filth without becoming the thing we touch.”

— Budd Schulberg

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