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
hate boxing boxing-champions
As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.
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.
marble miles quarry ran strike
I ran the newspaper, at Dartmouth, and there was a marble quarry strike about 40 miles away,
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.
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.
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
nuts stuff the-waterfront
Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.
money brother jobs
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.
listening novelists used
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.
papa far-away admire
Tell Papa I admire him but from now on I plan to admire him from as far away as I can get.
expression goes-on ancient
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.
silence hollywood way
Silence is the sure sign that youre on your way out in Hollywood.
fighting dozen way
Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.
community
Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?