Paul Newman Quotes
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Sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
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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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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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Where the hell are the singing cats?
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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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It's always darkest before it turns absolutely pitch black.
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Choose between yesterday and tomorrow.
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Our marriage works because we each carry clubs of equal weight and size.
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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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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 say somebody’s guilty, everybody believes you. You say they’re innocent, nobody cares.
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We all die, just a question of when.
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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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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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If I ever feel like I’m doing something I’ve done before, I scrap it and start over again.
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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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Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.
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Fill the moment and find variety.
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If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition.
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...." I was rather discouraged when I discovered that Paul and Hotch had no marketing survey, no business plan, no budget, no organized strategy for the introduction of the sauce. When asked about this lack of preparation, the haphazard nature of their business, Paul said, 'Me in this business is just part of life's great folly. Stay loose, men, keep 'em off balance.'"
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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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I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor. You don't want any woman to look under the carpet because there's lots of flaws underneath. Joanne believes my character in a film we did together, "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge" comes closest to who I really am. I personally don't think there's one character who comes close... but I learned a long time ago not to disagree on things that I don't have a solid opinion about.