Top 100 Quotes About Paul Newman
#1. I think 'Cool Hand Luke' was probably the first movie in which I was aware of the writing as its own separate thing. It was that speech when the guy reads Paul Newman the riot act. The speech about going in the box.
Brian Helgeland
#2. I was in a supermarket and I saw Paul Newman's face on salad dressing and spaghetti sauce ... I thought he was missing.
Bob Saget
#3. Resisting a beautiful chocolate cake or a wonderful foie gras is as difficult as (the idea of) saying no to Paul Newman.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#4. I aspire to be like Paul Newman. He was a man's man, a lady's man, and the epitome of a philanthropist.
Trevor Donovan
#5. If you look at any of the greats, from people like Paul Newman and Robert Redford to, you know, Brad Pitt - to get any of the kinds of roles like the ones that they've gotten, or just to be a part of any of the kinds of movies they've made, would be the end-all for me.
Channing Tatum
#6. I've learned by watching films that inspired me and people who inspired me like Robert Redford and Paul Newman. I love old school acting. I love subtlety, and I also love being spontaneous, and that's really what works for me.
Alex Pettyfer
#7. My four friends were John Kerr, who became a star, Paul Newman, Jimmy Dean, and Jack Lemmon.
Dick Van Patten
#8. I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace.
Christopher Atkins
#9. Paul Newman's half Jewishand Florence Henderson's half, tooPut them together,What a fine looking Jew!
Adam Sandler
#10. They [Tom Hanks and Paul Newman] were simply always high level masters, and taught me as a kid actor never to be an a*shole to anybody, because it would be very tough to get past where they are.
Tyler Hoechlin
#11. I always related most to Steve McQueen because he was more of an outcast than Robert Redford or Paul Newman.
Patrick Fugit
#13. I was in a play with Julia Roberts and Paul Newman and Tony Randall.
Christine Lavin
#14. You should never meet your heroes. Paul Newman ... I was so excited about meeting him, but he turned up in shell suit bottoms, slippers, and a jumper. He was just so worn out and old, he wanted to go home.
Allan Carr
#15. People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.
Erma Bombeck
#16. I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.
Paul Newman
#17. You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
Al Pacino
#18. I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type of guy. That's why I thought the stage is just right for me.
Ed O'Neill
#19. It would have been impossible to get 'The Verdict' off the ground without Paul Newman obviously, but today without any star, kind of a dramatic piece would be very tough.
Richard D. Zanuck
#20. I'm a pretty happy camper. Look a little more like Paul Newman, maybe. Haha.
John Warnock
#21. One of my favorite actors is Paul Newman. He could tell so much with a single look, whereas some actors would need an entire five page monologue to give off the feeling of what he could say with just a single look.
Ryan Kwanten
#23. The people I've respected most in the industry over the years - Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he handled growing old on-screen. It's understanding that you're now basically a character actor. Which is fine, but you have to pay attention to it.
George Clooney
#24. There are so many people I would love to work with, like Al Pacino, Paul Newman, Gary Oldman - maybe Tom Cruise. I wanna play his brother in something - so call my agent!
Scott Wolf
#25. When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Those two actors and that movie was my inspiration to want to be an actor.
Peter Facinelli
#26. Paul Newman would have been a much more important star if he hadn't always tried to be an anti-hero, to show the human feet of clay.
John Wayne
#27. With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
Patrick Wilson
#28. I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.
Tab Hunter
#29. Unlike Paul Newman, who seems to think that salad dressing is the cure-all for America's ills, I'm a man of action.
Stephen Colbert
#30. Paul Newman's an old friend of ours out of Cleveland, Ohio. He used to sit around our house. He's the only man I've ever known to drink a case of beer all by himself. That's talent in a way.
Lew Wasserman
#31. 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?'
Paul Newman
#32. I'll never be the biggest kind of star; I'll be like Bob Duvall, respected as an actor but a lot of people can't identify the face. I don't have the personality of a big star, or the looks of a Mel Gibson or a Paul Newman, or the style of a George C. Scott.
John Malkovich
#33. I think Paul Newman had an amazing career. I also love what Tom Hanks has done. He has always made very grounded movies that have something to say. He has found a way to make blockbusters that are about something and that is what I want to do.
Josh Duhamel
#34. Growing up, Paul Newman seemed like the ultimate manly actor. And then, I got to work with him and we became friends, so that was nice.
Dermot Mulroney
#35. The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.
Maurice Sendak
#36. I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him.
Ed Harris
#37. To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting.
Quoted in "Paul Newman's Road To Glory", interview with Paul Fischer, Film Monthly (2002-07-01)
Paul Newman
#38. When I stepped out into the bright sunlight, from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home ...
S.E. Hinton
#39. My dad's one of my biggest heroes. I also think Paul Newman's an inspiration. I know a lot of people say that, but I love that he's a great role model and a humanitarian. I admire people who don't necessarily want to change the world, but try to make it a better environment.
Alex Pettyfer
#40. Paul Newman is simple not an actor and possibly not even alive.
Dwight Macdonald
#41. Chocolate is the greatest gift to women ever created, next to the likes of Paul Newman and Gene Kelly. It's something that should be had on a daily basis.
Sandra Bullock
#42. It wasn't as though I really made a commitment to it; there wasn't anything else around. So I wasn't driven to become an actor.. it just seemed to be the thing that I managed to do best.
Paul Newman
#43. 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.
Paul Newman
#44. People like to do what they used to do after they've stopped being able to do it.
Paul Newman
#45. 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.
Paul Newman
#46. Sweet Bird of Youth": "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.
Paul Newman
#47. If you have no enemies, you have no character.
Paul Newman
#48. Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.
Paul Newman
#49. I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts.
Paul Newman
#50. I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me.
Paul Newman
#51. There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just when things look darkest, they go black.
Paul Newman
#52. The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.
Paul Newman
#53. Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Paul Newman
#54. For some players, luck itself is an art
Paul Newman
#55. It's all been a bad joke that just ran out of control. I got into food for fun but the business got a mind of its own. Now - my good Lord - look where it has gotten me. My products are on supermarket shelves, in cinemas, in the theater. And they say show business is odd.
Paul Newman
#56. 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.
Paul Newman
#57. If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.
Paul Newman
#58. Our marriage works because we each carry clubs of equal weight and size.
Paul Newman
#59. So you wound up with Apollo. If he's sometimes hard to swallow. Use this.
Paul Newman
#60. I have vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals.
Paul Newman
#61. I started my career giving a clinic in bad acting in the film, "The Silver Chalice," and now I'm playing a crusty old man who's an animated automobile [in "Cars"]. That's a creative arc for you, isn't it?
Paul Newman
#62. In racing, the fastest person wins. It is very simple.
Paul Newman
#63. You can't really appreciate anonymity until you've lost it. People say that's sour grapes, but it really isn't To be able to walk down the street without people paying attention to you is a real blessing and you lose it when you become an actor.
Paul Newman
#64. Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.
Paul Newman
#65. Admit it. I'm the best you ever seen, Fats. I'm the best there is. And even if you beat me, I'm still the best.
Paul Newman
#66. A lot of people have dreams and never do anything about them. When you have ideas and dreams, you do something about it.
Paul Newman
#67. You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.
Paul Newman
#68. There are a lot of drivers who can carry a car. It doesn't happen very often very successfully. I think it takes a certain amount of sensible bravery. It's no good to be brave and just keep crashing.
Paul Newman
#69. I will continue to get behind the wheel of a racing car as long as I am able. But that could all end tomorrow.
Paul Newman
#70. 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?
Paul Newman
#71. I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck: the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others; made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it.
Paul Newman
#72. Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.
Paul Newman
#73. 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.
Paul Newman
#74. I'm like a good cheese. I'm just getting mouldy enough to be interesting.
Paul Newman
#75. 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.
Paul Newman
#76. There really is no such thing as a sick child; there are children who happen to be sick. Think about it, and you will understand the magic of the Camps
Paul Newman
#77. There are many ingredients that go into making a film. It baffles me, what works and what doesn't.
Paul Newman
#78. Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.
Paul Newman
#79. I just hope when my body goes, or when my mind does, I have the guts to end it the way Hemingway did. I don't want anybody wiping drool off my chin.
Paul Newman
#80. You can't stop being a citizen just because you have a Screen Actors' Guild card.
Paul Newman
#81. I have taken roads that I wished I had not traveled on. And I'm traveling on some pretty exciting ones, too.
Paul Newman
#82. I want to acknowledge luck, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others.
Paul Newman
#83. 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.
Paul Newman
#86. How many honest men do you know? Take the sinners away from the saints, you're lucky to end up with Abraham Lincoln.
Paul Newman
#87. From salad dressings all blessings flow.
Paul Newman
#88. I check my pulse and if I can find it, I know I've got a chance
Paul Newman
#89. Well, the nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.
Paul Newman
#90. Choose between yesterday and tomorrow.
Paul Newman
#91. No sense in being a grifter if it's the same as being a citizen.
Paul Newman
#92. You say somebody's guilty, everybody believes you. You say they're innocent, nobody cares.
Paul Newman
#93. I think transitions are never that noticeable, but they are always on their way. It has to do with distance and accessibility. People call it mellowing, but I think it's how available you are toward other people, or how much you distance yourself.
Paul Newman
#94. Sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
Paul Newman
#95. Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser.
Paul Newman
#96. People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.
Paul Newman
#97. Dreams without movement are delusions, escapes, kid's play. You have to put your feet into your dreams if they're ever going to be reality. The dreamers we know and love today are the ones who worked the hardest
Paul Newman
#99. I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried - who 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.
Paul Newman
#100. 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?
Paul Newman
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