Paul Newman Quotes
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The spaghetti sauce is a good thing to think about. Morning, noon, and night, think about the spaghetti sauce. Think about hustling other people to buy the spaghetti sauce.
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Being on President Nixon's enemies list was the highest single honor I've ever received. Who knows who's listening to me now and what government list I'm on?
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It's always darkest before it turns absolutely pitch black.
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Choose between yesterday and tomorrow.
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Where the hell are the singing cats?
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Hollywood is a changing world these days. This is one of the things that ought to be changed.
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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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The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films.
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Our marriage works because we each carry clubs of equal weight and size.
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It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels.
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I like racing but food and pictures are more thrilling. I can't give them up. In racing you can be certain, to the last thousandth of a second, that someone is the best, but with a film or a recipe, there is no way of knowing how all the ingredients will work out in the end. The best can turn out to be awful and the worst can be fantastic. Cooking is like performing and performing like cooking.
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You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning.
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You say somebody’s guilty, everybody believes you. You say they’re innocent, nobody cares.
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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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In the early days of films, the movie star in this country replaced royalty. They've been demoted since then but they're still treated as beings larger than life.
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We all die, just a question of when.
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If I ever feel like I’m doing something I’ve done before, I scrap it and start over again.
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I check my pulse and if I can find it, I know I've got a chance
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Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.
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To be an actor you have to be a child.
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Fill the moment and find variety.
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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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The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from my own experience, the more I try to deepen it.
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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.