Paul Newman
You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.Collection: Morning
Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.Collection: Money
You only grow when you are alone.Collection: Alone
If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.
To be an actor you have to be a child.
If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.
I'm not able to work anymore as an actor and still at the level I would want to... you start to lose your memory. You start to lose your confidence. You start to lose your invention. So, that's pretty much a closed book for me.
The nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.
Who's to say who's an expert?
Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.
There are places you go, and they say, 'Take off your dark glasses so we can see your beautiful blue eyes.' And you just want to... you just want to... I dunno, um... thump them.
I have an extraordinary attention span. I manage to juggle two or three different ideas at the same time, and that's probably - if I have a gift, that's probably the best gift that's given me.
Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.
Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.
People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.
George Roy Hill, Redford, and I have been looking for a script to do together for 13 years. We haven't been able to find one that we liked enough for the three of us to be in it together.
Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser.
So you wound up with Apollo. If he's sometimes hard to swallow. Use this.
I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.
The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars.
Every time we get into an argument about cooking or laundering shirts, she shakes her Oscar at me, and I'm dead in the water. It would be a great equalizer now after 33 years.
What is the difference between a truly creative artist and an interpretive artist? I have not concluded anything about that, but it's fair to ask the question.
The Sixties - I had to have my foot in everything then. I'm doing the same thing now but through an intermediary. You know. The food company. Maybe that's the way to go about it. You go right straight into the inferno, and when you get older, you pull back.
It's kind of like those little electric bumper cars where you drive around and see if you can hit the other guy. That's exactly what the country is like now. You no longer have the sense of community. Of loyalty. It's lost its sense of group. It has nothing to do with leadership.
The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility.Collection: Giving
If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition.Collection: Character
Dreams without movement are delusions, escapes, kid’s play. You have to put your feet into your dreams if they’re ever going to be reality. The dreamers we know and love today are the ones who worked the hardestCollection: Dream
A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.Collection: Men
I'm like a good cheese. I'm just getting mouldy enough to be interesting.Collection: Interesting
When you see the right thing to do, you'd better do it.Collection: Things To Do
The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films.Collection: Funny
The best thing you can give yourselves...is the gift of possibility. And the best thing you can give each other is the pledge to go on protecting that gift in each other as long as you live.Collection: Long
The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.Collection: Getting Older
It happens to everybody, horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.Collection: Death
Choose between yesterday and tomorrow.Collection: Yesterday
What could be better than to hold your hand out to people less fortunate than you are?Collection: Hands
The need is great and so are the opportunities to make a difference.Collection: Opportunity
We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.Collection: Life
It's really important to be attentive to the people who have less - who are less fortunate than you are.Collection: People
I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.Collection: Inspiring
I have vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals.Collection: Dream
Sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.Collection: Real
A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.Collection: Sweet
I check my pulse and if I can find it, I know I've got a chanceCollection: Pulse
I think it's very desirable to be an individual and a free thinker.Collection: Thinking
Winning isn't everything.... it's just all there is.Collection: Winning
A man with no enemies is a man with no character.Collection: Character
People like to do what they used to do after they've stopped being able to do it.Collection: People
I would like it if people would think that beyond Newman, there's a spirit that takes action, a heart, and a talent that doesn't come from my blue eyes.Collection: Heart