Paul Newman (Paul Leonard Newman) Quotes

How many honest men do you know? Take the sinners away from the saints, you're lucky to end up with Abraham Lincoln.

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• The concept that a person who has a lot holds his hand out to someone who has less, or someone who isn't hurting holds his hand out to someone who is, is simply a human trait that has nothing to do with celebrity. I am confounded at the stinginess of some institutions and some people. I'm bewildered by it. You can only put away so much stuff in your closet.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Hurt
  • Persons
  • Institutions

• On adultery: "Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?

  

  Paul Newman
  • Home
  • Fool
  • Adultery

• I don't like to discuss my marriage, but I will tell you something which may sound corny but which happens to be true. I have steak at home. Why should I go out for hamburger?

  

  Paul Newman
  • Home
  • Sound
  • Corny

• An actor has to evaluate his own abilities and be honest with himself.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Actors
  • Ability
  • Honest

• I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Watches
  • Nuts
  • Machinery

• I'm a very competitive person. I always have been. And it's hard to be competitive about something as amorphous as acting. But you can be competitive on the track, because the rules are very simple and the declaration of the winner is very concise.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Simple
  • Acting
  • Persons

• I don't go for the so-called "intimate" stuff. Column items that report: "Minerva Ferncroft sleeps in pink dusting powder between puce-colored sheets in a heart-shaped bed." It leaves me cold.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Heart
  • Sleep
  • Cold

• When the idea came up, (Newman's Own) I said, "Are you crazy? Stick my face on the label of salad dressing?" And then, of course, we got the whole idea of exploitation and how circular it is. Why not, really, go to the fullest length, and the silliest length, in exploiting yourself and turn the proceeds back to the community?

  

  Paul Newman
  • Community
  • Crazy
  • Ideas

• Dreams without movement are delusions, escapes, kid’s play. You have to put your feet into your dreams if they’re ever going to be reality. The dreamers we know and love today are the ones who worked the hardest

  

  Paul Newman
  • Kids
  • Today
  • Dream

• A rebel is a nonconformist who is constantly saying no, and I'm not that. I'm a conformist and I believe in progress, and you can't make much progress by saying no all the time. A rebel is destructive. I know I have something constructive to offer.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Believe
  • Progress
  • Rebel

• A man with no enemies is a man with no character.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Character

• You can't stop being a citizen just because you have a Screen Actors' Guild card.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Actors
  • Citizens
  • Cards

• It wasn't as though I really made a commitment to it; there wasn't anything else around. So I wasn't driven to become an actor.. it just seemed to be the thing that I managed to do best.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Actors
  • Commitment
  • Made

• Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Sleep
  • Moral
  • Baby

• I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried - who tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with one another, tried to find some decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human being. Someone who isn't complacent, who doesn't cop out.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Guy
  • Humans
  • Communicate

• Getting the truth in the New York Post has been as difficult as finding a good hamburger in Albania.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Difficult
  • Findings
  • Hamburgers

• I don't like gossip stories. Facts are okay. But when gossips begin making items, that's something else again.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Stories
  • Facts
  • Gossip

• I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Attitude
  • Noble
  • Exceptional

• I have vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals.

  

  Paul Newman
  • World
  • Vision
  • Sundance

• Twenty-five years ago I couldn`t walk down the street without being recognized. Now I can put a cap on, walk anywhere and no one pays me any attention. They don`t ask me about my movies and they don`t ask me about my salad dressing because they don`t know who I am. Am I happy about this? You bet.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Attention
  • Pay
  • Streets

• 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

• I had no natural gift to be anything - not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a painter of garden porches - not anything. So I've worked really hard, because nothing ever came easily to me.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Actors
  • Garden
  • Athlete

• We've polluted the stratosphere with these chlorine and bromine compounds, and because it's now colder, and because we have this change in the climate, we're getting more ozone loss than we would have gotten in a normal year.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Loss
  • Environmental
  • Normal

• It's born of sheer laziness. My signature dishes are salads, hamburgers and popcorn. That's not the kind of stuff that gets you an entry in the distinguished book of culinary records. Being known for great soufflé is one thing but a good hamburger? What would they say? "Yeah, he really knew how to put the cheese on."

  

  Paul Newman
  • Book
  • Kind
  • Born