Paul Newman (Paul Leonard Newman) Quotes
I like racing but food and pictures are more thrilling. I can't give them up. In racing you can be certain, to the last thousandth of a second, that someone is the best, but with a film or a recipe, there is no way of knowing how all the ingredients will work out in the end. The best can turn out to be awful and the worst can be fantastic. Cooking is like performing and performing like cooking.
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Film has to describe and show.
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Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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I am fortunate to stay at lots of lovely hotels when I'm on tour, but my favourite hotel group in Britain is Malmaison. I recently stayed at the Malmaison in Manchester, which was pretty amazing. It had a fabulous bar and restaurants, as well as fantastic rooms with mood lighting.
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The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
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I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.
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The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
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All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
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Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
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I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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Le Cirque at first was one of those general French restaurants in town, which were cooking more or less the same food. At Le Cirque, I wanted to do something different while respecting the foundation of the restaurant. I did that through the menu.
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I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
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I have one of the worst voices in the history of recorded time.
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Film is much more visual, a scene is typically a lot shorter, you're dealing with a lot more characters, a lot more locations, and you're able to rely on things that you just can never do on the stage.
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I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
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'Bombay Velvet' is my most romantic film, it's my 'Titanic' or 'Gone With The Wind.'
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I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.
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I'm a big cook and prefer to make meals at home when I can. I'm either cooking, or we're going to a drive-through somewhere. I'm really proud of my homemade sweet potato pie. At Thanksgiving I make five of them because they go quick.
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As I get older, I realize all I've done is sing and act and hone those skills.
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There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.
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An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.
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I love Stella McCartney because she's timeless and classic, and I love Isabel Marant for wearability - you don't need 'an occasion' for her clothes.
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I like racing but food and pictures are more thrilling. I can't give them up. In racing you can be certain, to the last thousandth of a second, that someone is the best, but with a film or a recipe, there is no way of knowing how all the ingredients will work out in the end. The best can turn out to be awful and the worst can be fantastic. Cooking is like performing and performing like cooking.
