BUDD SCHULBERG

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

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

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.

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

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

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

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

Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.

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

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

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

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.

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

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.

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.