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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I would rather be on the set than doing anything.
-
I'm dying, and I'm having fun.
-
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
-
The writer works in a lonely way.
-
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.
-
I have a real passion for many aspects of home lifestyle and beauty.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I like meat and carbohydrates.
-
Now don't you dare call me normal. I was never a Pollyanna. There was always a lot of Theodora in me.
-
For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies.
-
Moi ! moi qui me suis dit mage ou ange, dispensé de toute morale, je suis rendu au sol.
-
So many things have to come together to get a creatively successful and financially successful film. Sometimes you'll have a movie that you're very proud of, and you think it transcended all of your expectations, but it doesn't come out at the right time. I have done movies that have never been released. That can be depressing.
-
Boys, don't try to find a woman as wonderful as your mother to marry because if you do, you'll stay single your whole lives.
-
It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.
-
I raised you to be a thoroughbred. When thoroughbreds run, they wear blinders to keep their eyes focused straight ahead with no distractions, no other horses. They hear the crowd, but they don’t listen. They just run their own race. That’s what you have to do. Don’t listen to anyone comparing you to me or to anyone else. You just run your own race.
-
Fish have got to swim. Birds have got to fly, and Clintons have to run for office. It's what they do. It's a metabolic urge. That's all they've done their entire life is borrow money from rich people to seek public office.
-
I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.
