Paul Newman (Paul Leonard Newman) Quotes

I cannot bear to look at a film that I made before 1990. Maybe 1985. There's no sense even trying to explain it. I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts, so I don't look at anything.

Paul Newman

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• I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.

  

  Jack Horner
  • People
  • Why
  • Want

• No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • High
  • Going
  • Rises

• The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.

  

  Orson Welles
  • American
  • Reality
  • Process

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't serious because I was smart. I wasn't like a true troublemaker, just rambunctious - like, talkative and trying to be funny. That was me in middle-school.

  

  J. Cole
  • Trying
  • School
  • True

• In 2010, I was doing pretty well. I was going to go to graduate school.

  

  Cam
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Doing

• It's kind of a funny way to put it, but if you want to study a dynamic economic system, what you'd like to be able to do is focus on the linkages, say, between asset markets and the macro economy without having to model everything at the same time.

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • Time
  • Funny
  • Focus

• I can write a song about my hero Che Guevara and call it 'Song for Che.'

  

  Charlie Haden
  • Song
  • Hero

• But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.

  

  Donna Tartt
  • Life
  • Important
  • Vision

• I adore being able to go to the Oscars and know every single person at the party afterwards.

  

  Mario Testino
  • Party
  • Single

• Had it not been for 'The Apprentice' and Donald Trump, I wouldn't have met my wife through an interview with 'E! News.'

  

  Bill Rancic
  • Wife
  • Trump

• If have to undergo preschool safety checks every morning, why does a random thug get to own an assault rifle?

  

  Christine Pelosi
  • Why
  • Morning
  • Safety

• Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.

  

  Ricky Martin
  • Soul
  • Beautiful
  • Faith

• I always wonder about people's history and their lives, especially people that are a little bit more distant, who obviously have had some kind of a thing, and you know there's some reason why they're not able to connect. It's not because they don't want to. They don't have the ability.

  

  Annette Bening
  • People
  • Why
  • History

• Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

  

  Agnes Obel

• I am from Scranton, PA.

  

  Adam Rippon

• One of the things about being a boy, especially growing up without a father, is you really don't have that role model to teach you how to do things.

  

  Art Alexakis
  • Up
  • Father
  • Growing

• Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

  

  Charles Reade
  • Character
  • Destiny
  • Habit

• There are a lot of people who say, 'Yeah yeah, I'm a feminist,' and they're not, actually. I wouldn't want to throw that word around, because it's a very strong thing.

  

  Saoirse Ronan
  • People
  • Strong
  • Feminist

• The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flint-stone does not inclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom.

  

  Saadi
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Wisdom

• I think I give far more space and play to avant-garde writing than any other contemporary textbook author. I want students to be able to decide for themselves which aesthetics are closest to their own. Still, while I try not to be a nostalgist myself, I suppose I am drawn to those poignant moments in our lives, rendered clearly and artfully.

  

  David Starkey
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Sakura: Never figured you for the artistic type. Sai: Looks can be decieving.

  

  Masashi Kishimoto
  • Looks
  • Artistic

• People sometimes tell me that I don't talk or act or look like a metal fan. Well, what does a metal fan look like? I've found people from all walks of life who love metal.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Life
  • Like

• I cannot bear to look at a film that I made before 1990. Maybe 1985. There's no sense even trying to explain it. I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts, so I don't look at anything.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Trying
  • Film
  • Looks