Paul Newman (Paul Leonard Newman) Quotes
I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.
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I would rather be on the set than doing anything.
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I'm dying, and I'm having fun.
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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
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I could play for the worst team if they paid the most... If the last-place team offers $200 million and the first-place team offers $10, I'm going to go for the $200-million no matter what team it was.
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We provide business advice and guidance. We started it here in India first, and now we have taken it globally. India was the first for startup incubation in the world for us.
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Not only do I not want to be stereotyped as this Asian girl who fights - gee, what a wonder - but also I have more to offer than that.
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I've become very, very liberal as far as war is concerned. It's just too terrible. I've been to wars and I've seen what happens. I know what it is to be hurt, and it's nothing compared to these guys. To be blind for the rest of your life. To have prosthetic limbs.
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Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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The writer works in a lonely way.
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I'm not ready to be that guy who can meet with world leaders and all that. It's tremendous what Bono does. I don't know if I could do it, not the way he does. I don't think many people could.
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I have a real passion for many aspects of home lifestyle and beauty.
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When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think that's really important.
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It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
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I like meat and carbohydrates.
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Now don't you dare call me normal. I was never a Pollyanna. There was always a lot of Theodora in me.
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For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies.
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Moi ! moi qui me suis dit mage ou ange, dispensé de toute morale, je suis rendu au sol.
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You can make a beautiful, airtight world that's fascinating to look at, but it's not interesting unless you have a character that's trying to achieve something under the circumstances of that world. It's harder to play a wacky girlfriend whose journey you just don't understand.
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Kids need love the most when they're acting most unlovable.
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Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.
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If you can walk with your head in the clouds and keep your feet on the ground, you can make a million dollars in the NBA.
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I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.
