Paul Newman Quotes
-
A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.
-
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.
-
If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Fill the moment and find variety.
-
The first time I remember women reacting to me was when we were filming Hud in Texas. Women were literally trying to climb through the transoms at the motel where I stayed. At first, it's flattering to the ego. At first. Then you realize that they're mixing me up with the roles I play - characters created by writers who have nothing to do with who I am.
-
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?
-
To be an actor you have to be a child.
-
I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.
-
We all die, just a question of when.
-
You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning.
-
It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels.
-
People like to do what they used to do after they've stopped being able to do it.
-
I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.
-
Building weapons that we don't need, don't work, and aren't necessary, and have no mission that's not bad politics, that's robbery.
-
I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.
-
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.
-
Watching something is nothing like doing it.
-
The need is great and so are the opportunities to make a difference.