Paul Newman Quotes
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I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary.
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It happens to everybody, horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
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I respect generosity in people, and I respect it in companies too, I don't look at it as philanthropy; I see it as an investment in the community.
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I'd done some acting in high school. Then I went to Kenyon College and got thrown in jail and kicked off the football team. Since I was determined not to study very much, I majored in theater the last two years. Got my degree in speech; they didn't actually have a degree in theater. I graduated at two o'clock in the afternoon, and at three-thirty I was on the train for Williams Bay, Wisconsin, for summer stock, and then I did winter stock.
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To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting.
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We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.
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Where the hell are the singing cats?
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What could be better than to hold your hand out to people less fortunate than you are?
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For some players, luck itself is an art
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You got to have two things to win. You got to have brains and you got to have balls. Now you've got too much of one and not enough of the other.
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The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films.
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I am convinced that a person is entitled to as much privacy as he wants. It should be his privilege to keep certain areas of his life out of the newspapers.
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I have an extraordinary attention span. I manage to juggle two or three different ideas at the same time, and that's probably, if I have a gift, that's probably the best gift that's given me.
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The only way we can give our children the best education in the world and prepare them for the next century is by funding the programs that serve them.
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The big difference between people is not between the rich and the poor, the good and the evil. The biggest of all differences between people is between those who have had pleasure in love and those who haven't.
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At the beginning of your career, it's 'Who is Paul Newman?' and then it's 'Get me Paul Newman.' Then it's 'Get me a young Paul Newman.' Then it's 'Who is Paul Newman?'
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You discover a lot of things on your feet and if you don't have any rehearsal, then anything that happens on the screen is by accident.
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A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.
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I think Hollywood is in love with sequels. If it's successful once, just jazz it up and shoot it out there again. I think it's unfortunate.
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The best thing you can give yourselves...is the gift of possibility. And the best thing you can give each other is the pledge to go on protecting that gift in each other as long as you live.
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There are many ingredients that go into making a film. It baffles me, what works and what doesn't.
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Choose between yesterday and tomorrow.
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I find it hard to believe that anyone could be so curious about me that they would want to read that I wear underwear shorts with green polka dots on them.
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Hollywood is a changing world these days. This is one of the things that ought to be changed.