27 quotes
Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.
Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures (2006)
People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.
Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures (2006)
A man with no enemies is a man with no character.
Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures (2006)
I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary.
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experiences.
To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting.
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.
Just when things look darkest, they go black.
The New Book of Magical Names (2003)
I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried — 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.
The Films of Paul Newman (1971)
Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.
Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures (2006)
The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films.
I was terrorized by the emotional requirements of being an actor. Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.
I don't think that there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me.
I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me.
I'm like a good cheese. I'm just getting mouldy enough to be interesting.
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?
It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, "I am terribly sorry. I'm tired."
To be an actor, you have to be a child.
Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures (2006)
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?
I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.