Paul Newman (Paul Leonard Newman) Quotes

Well, 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. And I'm grateful for the other things that have come into my life: grandkids, and restaurants and charity ... I've been doing it for 50 years. That's enough.

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• When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Poetry
  • Write
  • Poems

• Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Start
  • Being
  • Aggressive

• There is a supply for every demand.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Demand
  • Every
  • Supply

• I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Women
  • Career
  • Loved

• I was familiar with 'Addicted' for a long time, even prior to the movie, way before it got the greenlight. And when it finally got the greenlight, I was very happy to be a part of it.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Time
  • Long
  • Movie

• A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Long
  • Career

• Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Believe
  • Religious
  • Painting

• For a lot of people, it's a massive deal to be on the front row at Fashion Week and look perfect. I don't go to be seen; I go to look at the collections and support my friends, like Henry, Giles and Jonathan Saunders. As much as I love clothes and shopping, it doesn't drive me.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • People
  • Love
  • Friends

• When I'm not working, I like to play golf.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Play
  • Golf
  • Working

• He looked me right in the face and said, 'You fucking bulldyke!' And I thought to myself, 'Oooh, what a smart man! Why, I'll bet he took one look at me and knew I was white, too!'

  

  Lea DeLaria
  • Why
  • Smart

• I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don’t we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

  

  Elaine Dundy
  • God
  • Night
  • Question

• I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Why
  • Simple

• Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I'm looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I want to write what people want to read, not push any message.

  

  Ken Follett
  • People
  • Time

• I've hung on for a long time in this business and had some success, and I think it's keeping an open mind and being curious and having a sense of humor about oneself that's important.

  

  Adam West
  • Time
  • Important
  • Long

• Well, you know, we've got a lot of stimulus in the economy already from the tax cut, from the lowered interest rates, and also from the refinancing of mortgages.

  

  Franklin Raines

• I believe you have to nurture your conscience.

  

  Loretta Young
  • Believe

• All the training at MGM came to be a great help for me on 'Molly Brown.'

  

  Debbie Reynolds
  • Great
  • Help
  • Training

• In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.

  

  David Morse
  • Important
  • Community
  • Independent

• Stand-up is a weird animal. There are people who really want to know what you think about things, your opinion on life. But then there are people who think you're just that beautician in 'Legally Blonde,' who doesn't have opinions on anything. Or that I'm Stifler's mom and hot for it all the time.

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.

  

  Ann Patchett
  • People
  • Book
  • Beautiful

• Oh, everything's too damned expensive these days. This Bible cost 15 bucks! And talk about a preachy book! Everybody's a sinner! Except this guy.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Book
  • Guy
  • Bible

• I try to know as much as I can about a book before the beginning, but I never know exactly where it's going to end.

  

  Scott Spencer
  • Book
  • End

• Every young actor wants to do 'Hamlet' on the West End. Why? Because they can bring something to it.

  

  Martin Landau
  • Why
  • Hamlet

• Well, 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. And I'm grateful for the other things that have come into my life: grandkids, and restaurants and charity ... I've been doing it for 50 years. That's enough.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Book
  • Memories
  • Enough