Paul Newman famous quotes

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.
-- Paul Newman

#Marriage #Doors #People

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

#Careers #Young #Newman

I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.
-- Paul Newman

#Inspiring #Kids #Gay

I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.
-- Paul Newman

#Teacher #Actors #Expected

To be an actor you have to be a child.
-- Paul Newman

#Children #Acting #Actors

It's really important to be attentive to the people who have less - who are less fortunate than you are.
-- Paul Newman

#People #Important

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.
-- Paul Newman

#Weapons #Needs #Building

Watching something is nothing like doing it.
-- Paul Newman

You only grow when you are alone.
-- Paul Newman

#Wisdom #Being Alone #Solitude

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

#Children #Thinking #Sick

Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.
-- Paul Newman

#Acting #Pants #Exposed

A man with no enemies is a man with no character.
-- Paul Newman

#Character #Men #Enemy

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

#Life #Running #Thinking

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

#Home #Hamburgers #May

A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.
-- Paul Newman

#Sweet #Dollars

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
-- Paul Newman

#Games #Looks #Tables

Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.
-- Paul Newman

#Law #Firsts #Useless

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

#Dream #Kids #Reality

For those of you who like to scarf your popcorn in the sack, the good news is that Newman's Own contains an aphrodisiac.
-- Paul Newman

#Scarves #News #Aphrodisiac

I wasn't running toward the theater but running away from the sporting goods store. Of course now that I'm selling spaghetti sauce (with Newman's Own), I begin to understand the romance of business.. the allure of being the biggest fish in the pond and the juice you get from beating out your competitors.
-- Paul Newman

#Running #Business #Romance

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

#People #Generosity #Community

Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.
-- Paul Newman

#Passion #Men #Lifetime

It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, 'I'm terribly sorry. I'm tired.' [After winning his first Oscar after so many losses]
-- Paul Newman

#Beautiful #Sorry #Tired

I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.
-- Paul Newman

#Lying #Eye #Brown

It's been a privilege to be here.
-- Paul Newman

#Privilege

Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.
-- Paul Newman

#Baby #Sleep #Moral

I'm a great believer in luck and the extraordinary role that plays in all of our lives.
-- Paul Newman

#Play #Luck #Roles

I check my pulse and if I can find it, I know I've got a chance
-- Paul Newman

#Pulse #Chance #Checks

It's always darkest before it turns absolutely pitch black.
-- Paul Newman

#Sarcastic #Witty #Sarcasm

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

#Mind #Body #Want

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.
-- Paul Newman

#Nuts #Trying #Looks

Well, I'm not able to work anymore as an actor and still at the level I would want to ... you start to lose your memory, you start to lose your confidence, you start to lose your invention. So, that's pretty much a closed book for me. And I'm grateful for the other things that have come into my life: grandkids, and restaurants and charity ... I've been doing it for 50 years. That's enough.
-- Paul Newman

#Memories #Book #Grateful

If you have no enemies, you have no character.
-- Paul Newman

#Character #Enemy

I'm like a good cheese. I'm just getting mouldy enough to be interesting.
-- Paul Newman

#Interesting #Cheese #Enough

[Getting the truth in the New York Post has been as] difficult as finding a good hamburger in Albania.
-- Paul Newman

#New York #Hamburgers #Albania

I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.
-- Paul Newman

#Running #Acting #Driven

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

#Thinking #Car #Brave

I have an extraordinary attention span. I manage to juggle two or three different ideas at the same time, and that's probably, if I have a gift, that's probably the best gift that's given me.
-- Paul Newman

#Ideas #Two #Different

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

#Men #Lucky #Saint

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.
-- Paul Newman

#Character #Texas #Who I Am

I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me.
-- Paul Newman

#Attitude #Thinking #Noble

I'm a very competitive person. I always have been. And it's hard to be competitive about something as amorphous as acting. But you can be competitive on the track, because the rules are very simple and the declaration of the winner is very concise.
-- Paul Newman

#Simple #Track #Acting

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

#Nice #Stuff #Actors

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

#Sweet #Differences #Evil

So you wound up with Apollo/If he's sometimes hard to swallow/Use this.
-- Paul Newman

#Use #Apollo #Sometimes

It happens to everybody, horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
-- Paul Newman

#Death #Dog #Horse

Fill the moment and find variety.
-- Paul Newman

#Crafts #Moments #Variety

I have vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals.
-- Paul Newman

#Dream #Vision #Bifocals

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.
-- Paul Newman

#Knowing #Work Out #Giving

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

#Commitment #Actors #Driven

We all die. It's just a question of when.
-- Paul Newman

#Death #Dying