Paul Newman Quotes

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Paul Newman

Profession : Actor

Birth : January 26, 1925

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

Paul Newman

It's kind of like those little electric bumper cars where you drive around and see if you can hit the other guy. That's exactly what the country is like now. You no longer have the sense of community. Of loyalty. It's lost its sense of group. It has nothing to do with leadership.

Paul Newman

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.

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If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.

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

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

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

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There are places you go, and they say, 'Take off your dark glasses so we can see your beautiful blue eyes.' And you just want to... you just want to... I dunno, um... thump them.

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To be an actor you have to be a child.

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George Roy Hill, Redford, and I have been looking for a script to do together for 13 years. We haven't been able to find one that we liked enough for the three of us to be in it together.

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Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.

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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.

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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: '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.

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I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

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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.

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Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

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The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars.

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Who's to say who's an expert?

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Every time we get into an argument about cooking or laundering shirts, she shakes her Oscar at me, and I'm dead in the water. It would be a great equalizer now after 33 years.

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What is the difference between a truly creative artist and an interpretive artist? I have not concluded anything about that, but it's fair to ask the question.

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