Budd Schulberg
Budd Schulberg
Budd Schulbergwas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth27 March 1914
CountryUnited States of America
amazed believed books books-and-reading nobody sell
I'm amazed that Fitzgerald's books now sell millions, ... Nobody believed in him then. It was so sad. He was about 40, but I thought of him as an old man.
care turned twentieth
Darryl Zanuck turned us down at Twentieth Century-Fox. He told us no one is going to care about a lot of sweaty longshoremen.
Hey, you want to hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.
brakes
Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.
american-writer class
I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
marble miles quarry ran strike
I ran the newspaper, at Dartmouth, and there was a marble quarry strike about 40 miles away,
art
He thought they were the new art form.
sports thinking games
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.
people littles consistent
I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.
class tickets way
I coulda' had class. I coulda' been a contender! But instead I got a one way ticket to Palookaville.
comfort dignity fighter
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.
hate boxing boxing-champions
As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.
You can't eat your friends and have them too
tough conform expected
You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going